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A “man in the arena” gambit to shield Bold Doers™ from criticism is pure bs unless said arena is a vacuum-gapped spaceship >1 lifetime light-distance from earth, with no physical way to create externalities for the rest of us. If not, you’re getting critical scrutiny. Deal.
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don’t think ‘man in the arena’ is meant to shield people from criticism so much as to remind them that much of it is irrelevant it’s far easier to scrutinize than be scrutinized
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