Based on your comment, it seems like you are making a value judgement that philosophical tradition > memes & celebrities, and that reinvention is not worthwhile. But I don’t see how “reinvention” is a bad thing, nor why philosophical tradition should be valued more than this version using memes & celebrities.
Memes and celebrities are often easier to understand than philosophical essays. If reinvention gets more people exposed to the same (good) thing, then it has more opportunity to spread. Doesn’t matter if it’s something that’s been said before, in my view; this piece is well-written and does a good job propagating these ideas forward, to take root more firmly in the collective unconscious.
If reinvention gets more people exposed to the same (good) thing, then it has more opportunity to spread.
But we don’t know that it is the same or equally good—that is a crux. We don’t know that the OP already has a mainstream understanding of epistemology, because they didn’t say whether they are explaining or reinventing (although the vibe is more the latter).
Based on your comment, it seems like you are making a value judgement that philosophical tradition > memes & celebrities, and that reinvention is not worthwhile.
Philosophical tradition is very likely to be better, since it is more people and smarter people doing something a longer period of time; similarly, reinvention of something complex is unlikely to be an improvement.
Based on your comment, it seems like you are making a value judgement that philosophical tradition > memes & celebrities, and that reinvention is not worthwhile. But I don’t see how “reinvention” is a bad thing, nor why philosophical tradition should be valued more than this version using memes & celebrities.
Memes and celebrities are often easier to understand than philosophical essays. If reinvention gets more people exposed to the same (good) thing, then it has more opportunity to spread. Doesn’t matter if it’s something that’s been said before, in my view; this piece is well-written and does a good job propagating these ideas forward, to take root more firmly in the collective unconscious.
But we don’t know that it is the same or equally good—that is a crux. We don’t know that the OP already has a mainstream understanding of epistemology, because they didn’t say whether they are explaining or reinventing (although the vibe is more the latter).
Philosophical tradition is very likely to be better, since it is more people and smarter people doing something a longer period of time; similarly, reinvention of something complex is unlikely to be an improvement.
You say “value judgement” , but it’s not 50:50.