Things That Might Be Done: A List to be updated as I have ideas
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@selentelechia has a favorite post that describes the psychology of a player in MtG who reaches a point where he decides he is going to lose the game. At that point, he stops playing to win, and starts making moves that rationalize what he perceives to an inevitable loss.Show this thread -
Cribbing from Ken Kesey, this is accepting the role another has chosen for you in their story rather than acting as the protagonist in your own. This makes overcoming a hostile narrative nearly impossible. You write your own defeat into every line.
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We don't have to live like this. Irony aside our ideas and values are extremely fucking good when measured against the fideistic puerility arrayed against us. We ought to comport ourselves with confidence and dignity when asserting them and deprecate desperate undertones.
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And sadly this means kindness, civility, fair-mindedness, intellectual honesty and good faith argument will have to be demoted below winning for a while. The seething, caustic, amoral-in-moral-garb urge to power and destruction of radicals needs a callous and ferocious response.
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Example: I've stopped acknowledging factual errors because I see that's what they do to us. I say something to get my side riled up, an opponent points out I've misstated something, I ignore them. It's painful, but "the worst are filled with passionate intensity" is a documentary
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But what's the praxis Blocklists are a good, tangible suggestion - but what do you actually do Forming a target list of people from HR departments who are responsible for egregious abuses and going after them, or something
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"Your job is not your life" as a -1SD message PR DDoS tactics, no individual public shaming Get somebody not completely horrible to cover – Yang or something
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