Yup, if you read it like this, Dostoyevsky was defending the right to go mad ("I am ALLOWED to believe 2+2=5 if I WANT TO") and Orwell goes for this ironic reversal, if all of society is mad then only the madman is sanehttps://twitter.com/GiffordJames/status/1290804551155507200 …
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Which, broadly speaking, I agree with And it's sort-of-but-not-exactly what Kareem Carr was saying - mathematicians see math as a tool and a language, playing around with it and trying to inhabit wacky POVs is the whole idea
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That said, we do, unfortunately, live in a society Some of the wacky things people say are things that dehumanize me or people I care about and are tools being used to lock people up and kill them So sometimes, yeah, you can't just relax and let them talk
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(It's not like Orwell didn't get that, Orwell fought with the socialists in the Spanish Civil War Well before WWII actually started he was saying if he ever got in a room with Hitler he would kill him -- an act of *gasp* illegal assassination under the League of Nations)
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But it's funny to see the bros just engage in full-on Two Minutes' Hate style "Orwellian doublethink" on this issue They claim to be free speech maximalists and flip the fuck out, like Dostoyevsky's ranting flailing coxcomb, at people being Irrational and Wrong
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