The Wisdom of Fun Home in the Age of AI

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If wisdom requires that we not take ourselves too seriously “as the center of everything,” then it is appropriate to ask whether the absence of self-mockery in both the generative AI essays and our work as literary critics does not mean that they, and we, fall short of wisdom as Bechdel sees it.

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In Praise of Small Sanities

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No wise liberal has ever thought that liberalism is all of wisdom…. Liberalism isn’t a political theory applied to life.  It’s what we know about life applied to a political theory.

Adam Gopnick, In Praise of Small Sanities

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