+<pre><code>
+Title: Interlude XVI
+Date: 2020-01-01
+Category: other
+Tags: discourse, gaslighting
+Status: draft
+
+"The emperor is naked!" [a little child said](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes).
+
+"Silly child, the emperor is clothed," said the child's father.
+
+The child looked skeptical.
+
+"Okay, sure, he may not be wearing any garments—it would be pretty weird if we were claiming that!—but it's desirable for the social construct of clothedness to not depend on whether one is wearing any garments, because doing otherwise would be really mean to people who don't have anything to wear."
+</code></pre>
+
+He thought he had [explained it very clearly](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/).