When people say 'stop thinking about it' or 'stop being depressed', they actually mean 'stop producing depressed discourse'- the 'inescapability' of these things is in their recursive self-production via 'thinking about them'
This is true.
— In The Flesh: Philosophy for Living (@live_intheflesh) July 6, 2022
But like other things that fit this language-first mold (i.e. "depression") just telling people to "stop thinking about it" only works for some people.
One the term gets memetic legs they are hard to chop off.
This proves the original assertion: language 1st.
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Krugman is, of course, right about this. BUT, note that universities can do a lot to revitalize declining and rural regions.
See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
And see this thing that I wrote:
And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote:
One thing I've been noticing about responses to today's column is that many people still don't get how strong the forces behind regional divergence are, and how hard to reverse 1/ https://t.co/Ft2aH1NcQt
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 20, 2018
See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
And see this thing that I wrote:
And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote: