I think there's still room for big and, for lack of a better word, abstract questions in the humanities and theology. One real change though (and why I'm teaching Dussel) is that locating those in a horizon of liberation, related to concrete struggle, has become less common since the 90s especially.
I love the idea of a Catholic publishing house supported by a bespoke US missionary order run as a ministry for social justice looking at this and being like "yes we need to get this out there."
This is from Philosophy of Liberation, and it's so wild that it was also first published in English by Orbis rather than a university press. Like these missionaries were out here making sure Anglos could read super dense engagement with continental thought from Latin America before it was cool.
Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu says the term "narco-terrorist" has been weaponized—just as the word "communist" was in the past—to crush left-wing opposition in Latin America.
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"Repent while there is still time, for God’s mercy can reach even the most hardened sinner, but it enters only through the narrow gate of truth, justice and conversion."
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Me in my 70s, looking like Stephen Root in Widow's Bay, getting dragged away by the local sheriff after slapping a phone out of the hands of the mayor of the last town on earth to have mobile data reception: Don't open the app, Tim! You don't know what you're doing! What it could do to you, to us!
I'm gonna rebrand as a Satanic Panic guy for LLMs. Everything people said about Ouija boards is actually true about AI.