Or the Socrates effect. For being someone the state cancelled, lots of people know who he is
Whenever people try to cancel someone, read him instead. It would only take a small number of thoughtful people to do this for the net affect of cancellations to be the opposite of what was intended. We could call it the Hume Effect. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=hume%2C+david&bi=0&ds=30&sts=t&bx=off&sortby=17&tn=selected+essays&recentlyadded=all&cm_sp=inline-_-an-_-search …
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Selection effect. You don't know about all the people who were executed who would have been famous if they'd survived. Persecution actually works very well to suppress ideas. Not a lot of protestants in Spain or Christians in Japan after they killed them all.
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My favorite kind of guy is the type that believes intellectual bravery exclusively resides within the domain of elevating shitty people with bad opinions.
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That's not what he's doing.
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That’s a great reverse crowd sourcing experiment! It could also serve to signal that the person [in cancel question] likely has a high probability for novel contrarian ideas that could serve to exercise, test, & expand your mind.
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“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
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Isn’t there alteady a name for this? The Streisand effect?
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Yes, but she's a she and a liberal, so that just won't do...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect …
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Are any political views worth “canceling”?
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I really enjoyed this book. A great philosophical friendship.pic.twitter.com/sJxsuia9Ij
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Great book, yes.
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