Comment by standardly

Parsing this text was quite the workout. It certainly satisfies the langauge centers in my brain, being somewhat of a grammar-nazi myself, but also took about 15 minutes more of my time than I feel it should've. At times I admit I had no clue what the author was talking about (metatribe?)

Bottom line for me.. I worry society at large is too anti-intellectual for this essay to have any real significance or application in the real world whatosever. The true thinkers don't seem to have much pull, politically or socially. I wasn't even aware Twitter had such a community of intellectuals. My gut feeling tells me anyone who truly has it figured out probably isn't using Twitter at all.

I have a friend who is very into the "woo". Syncronicities, manifesting.. Thing X happens, and it's "Oh wow, I had a dream about thing X last night" I've always teased her about it, and one day she finally admitted that her spiritual "experiences" weren't exactly logical, or real at all, but that life was simply more fun and meaningful that way. And, honestly, perhaps I was quite the rationalist myself at the time, but I had a hard time challenging that notion. To each their own.