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The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this nerdification, to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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wit, irony, nerds, internet, reddit, nerdiness, nerd, post modern, sophistication, post modernism
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the...
Robert Hughes
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art, metaphor, confidence, culture, irony, idealism, postmodernism, david foster wallace, avant garde, post ironic