Always astounds me the lengths people will go to furnish a “reading books is gay” take with a pretension of superior erudition by means of “direct intuition”
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Irrationalism of this enthusiastic flavor is a pox— it is false council— there is a massive difference between knowing “as a feeling” & knowing “as a concept”— you can “feel like rich ppo are in charge” but have no CONCEPT of why, how, or what that *really means*
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Most of the time— your intuition serves as a block to the concept— if you have a “strong intuition” about what the 16th century is like— you’ll run into tons of problems reading 16th century texts & histories— because conceptual knowledge is not “intuited”
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Intuitively knowing “deep state kill jfk” is not even remotely the same as knowing “who ordered who where on what days securing funding by means of which agents &c”— arguing case law against “spectral evidence” is “tl;dr”
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