X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fif-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md;h=80552b1e752ddb73e169918422c04d7c3eba0a05;hb=63be30fdddcf9946a76b9f2032a9fb7a1976bffd;hp=f3befbd472cd551ce687d10735b8aafc6b513e70;hpb=059cb0c192867cabe96e4d025f259366f1ef182c;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md b/content/drafts/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md index f3befbd..80552b1 100644 --- a/content/drafts/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md +++ b/content/drafts/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: If in Some Smothering Dreams You Too Could Pace Date: 2021-01-01 Category: other -Tags: cathartic +Tags: cathartic, epistemic horror Status: draft > [...] [and this is a war, and we are soldiers](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i8q4vXestDkGTFwsc/human-evil-and-muddled-thinking). @@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ Fighting a Total Culture War to prevent your neurotype-demographic from becoming I mean, it's an explanation, but that's different from an excuse: being a jerk [has consequences](https://xkcd.com/1357/), and you need to take the consequences like a man. -This, then, is the mindset of a soldier (though our [beautiful cutting weapons](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/) be words instead of swords): to inflict pain, to incur guilt—and yet to have [only tactical](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2020/02/relationship-outcomes-are-not-particularly-sensitive-to-small-variations-in-verbal-ability/) regrets. Given the chance to do it all over again, you would—but solely to be more skillful in projecting rhetorical force to secure the objective, to say more clearly what _needed to be said_. Not to inflict less pain or incur less guilt. +This, then, is the mindset of a soldier (though our [beautiful cutting weapons](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/) be words instead of swords): to inflict pain, to incur guilt—and yet to have [only tactical](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2020/02/relationship-outcomes-are-not-particularly-sensitive-to-small-variations-in-verbal-ability/) regrets. Given the chance to do it all over again, you would—but solely to be more skillful in projecting rhetorical force to secure the objective—to say more clearly what _needed to be said_. Not to inflict less pain or incur less guilt.