X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fif-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md;h=48a843466b4a3f1450df5867952b241614ff6808;hp=80552b1e752ddb73e169918422c04d7c3eba0a05;hb=06c38b2813b1be78b80a9f10a4ee428f632a2076;hpb=bcb5c59eb795a7d4b2335b18f0ec58230cbbd44b 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 80552b1..48a8434 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 @@ -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.