OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT—
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+POINTS FROM MY EMAIL TO BBL—
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+ * the current situation re MtF is crazy
+ * activists who want to change society are both incentivized and selected for self-delusion—
+ * incentivized because: ... ? (Exercise: what was I thinking when I said
+ this?)
+ * selected-for because: ... ? (Exercise)
+ * some kind of Goodheart's-law/Berkson's-paradox-like phenomenon??
+ * Whichever activists happen to win get to write the history books, and so
+ most people end up with this Whig history view of the world where people in
+ the past were bad, bad men, but we're so much more progressive and
+ enlightened now. But evolutionarily speaking, there's no fact of the matter
+ as to what's better; there's only what won.
+ * A lot of intellectuals try to avoid politics: if your only choices are the "maximize the number of trans people" coalition vs. a "minimize the number of trans people" coalition, then it makes sense to sit it out
+ * But maybe there's a role for a more narrowly-targeted form of political
+ behavior (making friends and allies, trading favors, alienating people,
+ &c.), with the goal of just getting the correct theory (sexual dimorphism is
+ real, societies have gender roles, there are these two distinct classes of
+ motivation for why transitioning might seem like a good idea to someone) in
+ the standard sex-ed textbooks, but not trying to dictate what the social
+ norms of who should transition should be, who should pay for it,
+ &c. "Infovism" rather than activism.
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+work in my "the arc of the moral universe bends towards maximum entropy" quip: https://www.facebook.com/zmdavis/posts/10154841793275199
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