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I feel the exact same about grug. I don't think people actually agree on what's simple, so it's pretentious to pretend your "simple" is the obvious one that a caveman would agree with.

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Grug has some good points about complexity, but proceeds to take it all the way to full-blown, self-defeating anti-intellectual and anti-professional attitude. It makes sense for imaginary cavemen, but not for practitioners of a profession - people both capable and expected to learn the tools of their craft and continue learning past their first job interview.

ironically, i teach at a university

agree that anti-intellectualism is a danger if you take grugbrainism too far

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