I think my main source of sanity in the last few years has been the operating assumption that I’m probably among the insane ones on almost everything I talk about, and that’s okay. Composure and well-groomed communicative affect are not the same as sanity.
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The well-adjustedness = sanity fallacy. Frustrating clueless truth seekers since 1956. The only response is go deliberately insane in a very well-adjusted way. “Seeking truth” with unironic earnestness is best treated as an hobby that might sometimes pay off.
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This is what has been bothering me all evening. People whose communication style comes prepemptively overloaded with a heavy dose of “and obviously I’m sane, as are you if you agree with me”. Hypernormal sanity affect. Methinks the bluechecks doth protest too much.
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Basically, it’s insane to act like you know what “sane” is in 2019. If you don’t show signs of doubting your own sanity, I’m afraid I must do it for you. Paradoxical I know. Generative postures always are.
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