What gets me about this image, and the way it's usually deployed as a gotcha, is that the peasant's idea of 'improve society somewhat' appears to be something like 'reinstitute human sacrifice'.pic.twitter.com/f05OSMml0P
Anti-authoritarian, bleeding-heart Stirnerite,
. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.
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What gets me about this image, and the way it's usually deployed as a gotcha, is that the peasant's idea of 'improve society somewhat' appears to be something like 'reinstitute human sacrifice'.pic.twitter.com/f05OSMml0P
Generally when it comes from e.g. a redrose they're proposing an 'improvement' that's coercive, superstitious and actively harmful.
There are no heroes in that cartoon; the guy in the well is a douche but the peasant is not a sensible underdog proposing common-sense ways to heal the world.
I don't think the point is that the person who wants improvement is always correct about how. Rather, the reason the Gotcha guy sees participating in society as hypocritical of those who want to change it is he wants it to stay the same but is too lazy to argue on merits.
Not defending Gotcha guy here, I'm criticizing the inverse-strawman peasant, and the way it's used by extremely online cranks who also can't argue on the merits.
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