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A: I thought all along that the most basic problem
is implied in his most famous aphorism. It is: people
do not appreciate having attention drawn to the
medium of their own ability to communicate. You
can’t draw attention to the way in which people
assume that they have a basis for their knowledge.
He was always twitting people and saying, “Well,
you only believe that because, you know, such and
such prevails as a bias in the way you’re doing
something.” Nobody appreciated that at all. So he
was constantly pulling hidden ground into the
foreground, and people who were making their
livelihood by being focused on a specific figure,
they simply couldn’t handle that.