"descriptive x is good but prescriptive x is bad"
check in next week for more fantastical absurdities from people who never got the memo about the naivete of the fact-value distinction
i know i could get putnam reference cred if i put "dichotomy", but that way of describing the collapse has always felt far too conservative and unambitious
practical pragmatism has its advantages (not least of which its rhetorical parsimonious force), but i think the more aesthetic (and aristocratic?) forms can accommodate far more