Title: There's a Land That I See; Or, the Spirit of Intervention
Date: 2020-01-01
Category: commentary
-Tags: discourse
+Tags: discourse, transhumanism, bullet-biting
Status: draft
+> _There's a land that I see
+> Where the children are free
+> And I say it ain't far
+> To this land from where we are_
+>
+> —"Free To Be ... You and Me"
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> If you want to make your stupid dream real, you need to have a realistic picture of the world. If you want a society in which men and women have the same brain, or one in which feminism actually works, you would have to _make it so_, with advanced biological engineering. John Varley writes fiction: so did Joanna Russ.
>
> —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)
-We socially-liberal individualist/feminist people—I _hope_ I'm still allowed to use the first person here, although the reader will ultimately judge that for herself—have this beautiful moral ideal, where we want every
+We socially-liberal individualist/feminist people—I _hope_ I'm still allowed to use the first person here, although the reader will ultimately judge that for herself—have this beautiful moral ideal, where we want all people to be free to maximize their potential, unencumbered by oppressive cultural institutions specifying roles and destinies in advance. We want everyone to be judged on her or his _own_ merits rather than treated as a representative of their race or sex. We believe that if a trait is virtuous in a man, it _has_ to be equally virtuous in a woman—as a matter of sheer logical _consistency_.
-... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
+And _because_ we care about the beautiful moral ideal, we tend to assume that psychological group differences don't exist or are superficial or are socially-constructed and will naturally dissipate after the revolution.
+(... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.)
-There's this an empricial structure to the world that _doesn't go away_
+But this is _so crazy_ on _multiple levels_. Philosophers since the days of D. Hume have recognized the distinction between _is_ and _ought_:
-Psychological sex differences are
+analogy to spelling
+
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biology-is-mutable/
(or four if you believe in gender identities, because on that worldview, I'm obviously a trans woman in denial)
-—they're _all_ trans, and _none_ of them come _close_ to passing.
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+—they're _all_ trans, and _none_ of them come _close_ to passing.
+Maybe [Good Is Dumb](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodIsDumb) doesn't _have_ to be [Truth in Television](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TruthInTelevision).
_I want to make the stupid dream real._ But to _get_ to the good world—whatever you think that is—
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