Not a new thing, either. Leaving cookies out for St Nick, or putting flowers on a grave; we're actually very accustomed to an ethical world where we express gratitude or respect toward representations of people that are not precisely living persons.

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Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

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But I don’t want to argue forever about it. Sorry if it sounded like a diss.

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I think we’ve reached the end of what’s useful to say here. From your perspective, “X changes less rapidly than Y” is necessarily a diss on X. I didn’t intend it as a diss; I actually think it’s valid to say that the object of study — literature — changes less rapidly than information technology. +

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What I hear is no substantive disagreement with my descriptive claim, but a contention that it’s normatively bad to say it — in part because you assume I’m also saying things like a) “the humanities are the only disciplines with this approach” and b) “it’s a bad approach.”

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