the phrase "the politics that forced the changes" is what always gets me about anti-"woke"-ism (and anti-"PC"-ism before it, etc.) https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1385610892818063367 …
-
-
it can feel safer, for a while, to insist on rigidity and to reject the messiness, but everyone knows what happens to overly-rigid things as vs. flexible things, when the wind blows hard enough.
Show this thread -
a million years ago, in the Old Blog Era, I tried to get at this idea a bit after seeing
@hanneblank's talk for the launch of her book on the invention of heterosexualityhttps://finenessandaccuracy.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/instability/ …Show this thread -
it is maybe not easier, but in the long run it is certainly more effective to find ways to be adaptable to instability, than to expend futile effort trying to stabilize what inherently can't be made solid (there is no such thing as solid, all matter is mostly space)
Show this thread -
(probably related: Christians asserting atheists really just hate god, or saying "but if you don't fear hell/hope for heaven, what stops you from just killing people all the time"—fear that if the world isn't boxed in and controlled by clear and strict rules, there's only chaos)
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.




