Assumed sanity, like assumed consensus. When you speak or write with an unreconstructed posture of “well, I’m obviously sane” and use intensity of theatrical mocking incredulity to tag your opinion of the degree of insanity of what you’re responding to.
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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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