minimized "There's a Land ..."?

I still don't know how to execute on the anecdote I was going to tell
here. What if we just cut it? And cut the _Free to Be_ blockquote, which wasn't
adding enough value for the space it takes up?—does that make the title too
inside-referencey, or was that already the case, quote or no?

diff --git a/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md b/content/drafts/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention.md
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@@ -4,15 +4,6 @@ Category: commentary
 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/)
@@ -29,49 +20,6 @@ Firstly, philosophers since the days of D. Hume have recognized the distinction
 
 Secondly, not only does the nature _vs._ nurture dichotomy fail to hold up to basic scrutiny (the question has been compared to asking whether the area of a rectangle is caused more by its length or its width), it also isn't even adequate to the inferential work we tend to expect of it: [not everything biological is immuatable, and not everything social is easy to change.](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biology-is-mutable/) (Consider the case of [spelling reform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform): no one would suggest that the myriad quirks of English orthography are _genetically_ determined, and yet the entirely social difficulties of getting everyone to coordinate on more logical spellings seem insurmountable.)
 
-Because of these epistemological errors, adherents of the beautiful moral ideal
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-that may put us at a competitive disadvantage to our ideological enemies
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-I _want_ to believe that sex differences in personality and interests are small-to-nonexistent. I _want_ to believe that trans women are women. 
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-out of the three women present—
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-(or four if you believe in gender identities, because on that worldview, I'm obviously a trans woman in denial)
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-—they're _all_ trans. (And none of them pass.)
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-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).
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-_I want to make the stupid dream real._ But to _get_ to the good world—whatever you think that is—
+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—
 
 ... you're going to have to bootstrap from _today's_, unremediated, genderspace. Which requires _understanding_ it first. 
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-OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT—
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- * ✓ beautiful moral idea of equality  
- * ✓ —makes people believe that group differences are superficial/fake/social
-    * make sure to explicitly explain _why_ this is appealing
- * ✓ but this is crazy because:
-    * ✓ is does not imply ought
-       * people feel the need to accept the naturalistic fallacy _inference_,
-         but deny the antecedent and perform _modus tollens_—I think it's more
-         tenable to reject the conditional
-    * ✓ social vs. biological isn't even the axis you care about
- * but, we also assume things are biological/fixed when that's convenient for
-   "minority" things we want to protect (sexual orientation, gender identity)
- * requiring crazy beliefs in order to be a good person is a drain, a drag, and
-   a tax on sanity
- * _be specific_ about what's gerrymandered and wrong about "sex diffs
-   real/gender identity not"