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Throw in Nadia Eghbal's Tyranny of Ideas (https://nadiaeghbal.com/ideas https://nadiaeghbal.com/ideas) and you'll realize it's not humans beefing, but ideas. Po
by dluan 7y ago
Throw in Nadia Eghbal's Tyranny of Ideas (https://nadiaeghbal.com/ideas https://nadiaeghbal.com/ideas) and you'll realize it's not humans beefing, but ideas. Posting is praxis, and the internet is a series of tube battlegrounds for the best ideas.
I'm a multitour veteran of the scarred hellscape where modern and historic ideas struggle - 4chan, TEDx conferences, irc, VC conference rooms, local candidate door-knocking campaigns, reddit, and of course twitter. The brawling is better there than in academic journals and library shelves. Today I proudly do my duty fighting off the bad ideas with the Good Ones.
Jokes aside, this is a horribly lame and out of touch take, saying that people's righteous anger is in fact not because of their legit complaints about society, but because
they just want to argue. It's a both sides false equivalence, equal to PG implying he's better off being an "accidental centrist", whatever the hell that means.
- Yhippa 7y agoSometimes I love arguing just to argue. I wonder how many other people there are like me?
- godDLL 7y agoIn my own experience: 1. everyone starts out like that 2. some realize that and (sometimes having thought of it for a while) make a decision to persist/stop that 3. some years have passed by since, and now you can't get that reaction out of me, only understanding