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> "the arguments and social criticism he wanted to assert...could live and breathe on their own...didn’t have to Trojan-horse them into his novels’ characters o
by platz 8y ago
> "the arguments and social criticism he wanted to assert...could live and breathe on their own...didn’t have to Trojan-horse them into his novels’ characters or plot points..."
The best stories do not stealth-educate—they focus on using empathy in interesting ways.
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> "He was directed to some online reading about avoiding road rage, and he found a simple solution: Leave earlier."
... "That’s how you handle anger. You avoid the triggers. You know your terrain.
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> On the one hand, to function well, you have to believe in yourself and your abilities and summon enormous confidence from somewhere.
> On the other hand, to write well, or just to be a good person, you need to be able to doubt yourself — to entertain the possibility that you’re wrong about everything, that you don’t know everything, and to have sympathy with people whose lives and beliefs and perspectives are very different from yours.”
> The internet was supposed to do this for people, but it didn’t.
> “This balancing act” — the confidence that you know everything plus the ability to believe that you don’t — “only works, or works best, if you reserve a private space for it.”
- cgriswald 8y ago> “He was directed to some online reading about avoiding road rage, and he found a simple solution: Leave earlier." ... "That’s how you handle anger. You avoid the triggers. You know your terrain. This seems like a misconception people have about road rage rather than good advice. My frustration comes from the sheer insanity that is out there and the low bar that either society or government has set for us as to what counts as competent driving. For example, other drivers often place me in dangerous situations outside of my control by failing to signal, driving too slowly, driving to quickly, failing to yield right-of-way, etc. Now, I’m not particularly rage-y. I just cuss to myself and get away from the problem as soon as I can. So maybe the advice isn’t meant for me, but “leave earlier” just seems unempathetic and trite. No matter how much earlier I leave, it’s not going to make the guy In front of me trying to merge into 70 mph traffic at 20 mph go any faster.
- platz 8y agoI'm curious what the questions on the survey were qualifying for "road rage", but I'm guessing it covers more situations than the incidents you mentioned and highlight more self-induced issues than the kind you mentioned. Probably a different meaning of the word
- davidgrenier 8y agoYour gripe seems to be with the Gaussian distribution. When you see shitty driving, what you are looking at is average driving. You also don't look at your own driving from the outside. I'd probably find just as many reprehensible things about your driving as you do of others simply because, statistically, you are an average driver.
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- platz 8y agoHe is the definition of a modern-major-general-driver BTW this hn post appears to have been shadowbaned