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by pjc50 3901 days ago
Ahistoricity is one of the things I find infuriating about this profession. Because everyone's an autodidact. I don't mind the argument that "everyone did it wrong before" because that's sometimes true, or something underlying is really different, but it needs to come with some actual awareness of what constraints "before" was operating under, and what was and was not achieved.