Dropping words like 'neo-marxist' or 'post-modernist' because your favorite podcaster uses them doesn't make you smarter — it makes you a parrot. Real intellectual engagement requires wrestling with the underlying ideas, not performing the surface vocabulary. Most people adopt an icon's language to signal membership in a tribe, not because they've grappled with the concepts.
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