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Jesus man, I'm very interested in this topic yet I still had a terrible time working through that brain dump. Superfluous acronyms, overly verbose, excerpts from (egads!) your undergrad papers! What the hell, man. Are you trying to appear smart for your professor or are you trying to persuade nerds with ADD? It can't be both.

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Sorry, naner. When I try to be precise about things and not essentialize, it does require some amount of padding with jargon (pertaining to specificity) which would otherwise be taken as bullshit-like if not read by the fielded eye. What I try to do is stay away from generalizing and making indefensible claims. Next time, I'll stick with graphs, which is how I formulate my ideas and relate different social forces in the first place. To be dry: I wanted to be as accurate as possible, but it clouded all meaning.

Yeah. Me too. I found it painful to read.

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