"It’s refreshing to read a piece by someone so thoroughly unworried about being cancelled." — comment from a friend reading a draft of a new essay
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I never consciously realized it, but that's a competitive advantage when writing essays. It's one I'd rather not have though. I'd rather everyone could write that way, so I could read the results.
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Maybe it is a sign of a 'yes' bubble which is a drawback to being wealthy. Maybe negative feedback cycles are good. Maybe it should be as easy as posdible for someone to tell you you are wrong. If you have a legion of defenders that can be a hindrance but not if you are no one.
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If you are no one there the risk is being not even wrong
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It's almost like a superpower these days.
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Probably proportional to follower count
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I wonder if this advantage can be learned (or taught?).
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We have a word in South Africa called Mize, which means ignore, learning the art of Mize could be an answer.
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It’s called freedom of thought!
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I can hardly write a tweet without considering that
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One advantage of having gone to high school in a rural state while FB was getting popular is that my social media feed is always full of people with opinions that would not be comfortable to express at a dinner party in NY/CA/UK. Many areas where cancellation is not a problem.
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“Cancelled” is the mot-du-jour and it’s way over-used. These terms have a way of framing our perspective but can also confine our thinking.
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