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oh yea like reasonably, it’s unfair to expect. but part of the weird territory that politics is that it demands more than we’re capable of, and then you have to make tradeoffs and prioritization decisions. (for a recent example, see malala/palestine)
because of the above demands, it’s less that i think everyone has to read everything, moreso that i think everyone has a political theory (at least implicitly) and that those politics are open to critique of being mis/under-informed when they inevitably crop up.
the original impetus for the subskeet was seeing people celebrate the opposite anti-intellectualism: “labels/political theory are constraining! just believe what feels right!” so the weakest version of my claim is that one shouldn’t actively endorse ignorance
a stronger version is that one of the roadblocks to a better world is well-meaning people uncritically maintaining the same core political commitments with a progressive reformist coat of paint, and without self-reflection they’re basically sociological zombies mindlessly reproducing the status quo
srry 4 yap i’m clearly bad at this microblog thing