X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fhuman-diversity-notes.md;h=69de45c07c81dea0c318a8a7a14e38435033f835;hp=d61f9c6a3160b7f1e1106eef7188c32e928860f2;hb=e9350833b6d0196c622806a41756809f4fa28438;hpb=8bfc6b0eab0014f2bdbab7c6c86759e23c62536a diff --git a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md index d61f9c6..69de45c 100644 --- a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md +++ b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ Murray "Yes": https://archive.is/uaFFF 5. stages of HBD -The author of the _Xenosystems_ blog mischievously posits [five stages of knowledge human biodiversity](http://www.xenosystems.net/five-stages-of-hbd/) (in analogy to the famous, albeit [reportedly lacking in empirical support](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model), five-stage Kübler-Ross model of grief), culminating in Stage 4: Depression ("Who could possibly have imagined that reality was so evil?") and Stage 5: Acceptance ("Blank slate liberalism really has been a mountain of dishonest garbage, hasn't it? Guess it's time for it to die ..."). 6. I have an excuse; telling the truth is a Schelling point (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tCwresAuSvk867rzH/speaking-truth-to-power-is-a-schelling-point)—and finish @@ -27,22 +26,9 @@ The author of the _Xenosystems_ blog mischievously posits [five stages of knowle * it's actually a _selective_ blank slate (Winegard: https://quillette.com/2019/03/09/progressivism-and-the-west/ ) * women and courage * Hyde/Fine binary notes: p. 398 -* need to talk about individual differences being non-threatening - - - - - - - - - - - - -(Okay, I was brainwashed by progressivism pretty hard, but ideologies need to appeal to something in human nature; you can't brainwash a human with random bits; they need to be specific bits with something good in them.) +(Okay, I was brainwashed by progressivism pretty hard, but ideologies need to appeal to something in human nature; ) —and the people who claim not to have an agenda are lying. (The most I can credibly claim for myself is that I try to keep my agenda reasonably _minimalist_—and the reader must judge for herself to what extent I succeed.)