Let me be clear that I don't give a single fuck about the good of Society as such. Society only matters to me because people live in it.
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@StevenBrust Actually, not calling that cosmetic is fairly precisely my original point.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime And even that is an exaggeration; but major improvements have come about under threats of attacks to fundamental systems. -
@StevenBrust What are you thinking of in particular? -
@chaosprime mass working class action that threatened, or at least appeared to threaten, capitalism. 2/2 -
@StevenBrust Sure, and I'm not saying in any way that the macro view is unimportant. What I'm speaking against is the impulse to make a... -
@StevenBrust ...pretty or elegant macro-level system that glosses over the conditions of its components. -
@StevenBrust Which, y'know, as the kind of person who does what I do, is a syndrome that I'm vulnerable to falling into. -
@chaosprime Ah! That puts it in perspective, yes.
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@chaosprime My bad. I should have said cosmetic improvements. -
@StevenBrust Yeah, that's better. :)
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@chaosprime ...and why is it that I wanted to write that as "fundamental systae"? That can't be good. -
@StevenBrust Hunh! Sounds like you might have a nasty Etruscan orthography infection. You should get that looked at. -
@chaosprime *makes an appointment for a linguiscope, pending a possible linguisectomy.* -
@StevenBrust@chaosprime good thing insurance can't deny because of pre existing conditions any more. - End of conversation
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