X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2020%2Fif-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md;h=0d0f9e0f53ec13372291598ffaf7824f9a890854;hp=6cf40daa56c78518cc8d6b7b64d0c2c1dab05e51;hb=21731ba6f1191f1e8f920c44299c4b345f4fa528;hpb=f1129284da0a1943d1f2809292ea2f832b0d03f3 diff --git a/content/2020/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md b/content/2020/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md index 6cf40da..0d0f9e0 100644 --- a/content/2020/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md +++ b/content/2020/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md @@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ 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](http://web.archive.org/web/20200521005958/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.