starting to suspect the great human binary divides people who (can? do?) separate empirical claims and abstractions generally from Machiavellian social considerations, and those who can't or won't
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Like--consider (eg) kerfuffle over TBC. My guess is the main lay objection reduces to "you're going to use this to get an edge on me." And I'm not sure that's an invalid concern, honestly! Point is that normie spectrum folks are relatively, especially predisposed . . .
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. . . to view abstractions as social plays and there's nothing to be done about it but avoid letting your threatening abstractions leak to the MOPs. Once it's out, defending it as an *idea* is pointless, because the MOPs aren't interacting to an idea but to a social danger.
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the thing that sucks is that this basically winds up at crusty old dudes' whining about postmodernism pomo is many dessert toppings and floor waxes but among them is for sure the idea that everything is power games before and/or instead of anything else
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i was going somewhere here and then my phone made a noise
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maybe the thing i hate the most about power-dynamics-first analysis is that everybody who's into it is so fucking bad at it like it instantly turns into this thing where you have to rah-rah or pooh-pooh based on the most superficial impression of Good For Team or Bad For Team
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does the rah-rahing actually hurt your team because you're rah-rahing something superficially pro-team but so fucking asinine that rah-rahing it fucks up your team's entire credibility? too bad, have to do it anyway
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