From 059cb0c192867cabe96e4d025f259366f1ef182c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 22:57:06 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] "If in Some Smothering Dreams" --- ...-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/drafts/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3befbd --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/if-in-some-smothering-dreams-you-too-could-pace.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Title: If in Some Smothering Dreams You Too Could Pace +Date: 2021-01-01 +Category: other +Tags: cathartic +Status: draft + +> [...] [and this is a war, and we are soldiers](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i8q4vXestDkGTFwsc/human-evil-and-muddled-thinking). + +Fighting a Total Culture War to prevent your neurotype-demographic from becoming permanent mind-slaves of the [Blue Egregore](/2019/Aug/the-social-construction-of-reality-and-the-sheer-goddamned-pointlessness-of-reason/#blue-egregore) is no excuse for being a jerk. + +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. -- 2.17.1