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Weird thing happening but... I lost all desire to debate/argue????
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Like, I think there's tons happening: via twitter i saw i could actually give people tons of value, and also, because I have lots of followers, people treat me authoritatively
Before I was willing to argue/debate *all the time*. I thought the source to knowledge was other minds, not my own. Now... not so much
In part I guess it's just that I really bought into the romantic ideology of growth via different experiences and I just *have* experienced more widely different stuff than almost everyone. 99% percentile experience distribution for sure
And so I guess part is compensation. Another part is that I'm constantly trying to articulate and convey REALLY HARD AND PRECISE AND SUBTLE things and can at most impressionistically point towards them, like,
The way to engage with my content is to just assume that it's true AND THEN see if it explains more than assuming its not true. It must be WHOLESALE REPLACEMENT, it's not possible to iteratively, step-by-step, go from there to here
And thus, when people wanna debate or whatever now either they have a killer argument or piece of evidence or I'm just like... not interest. Which feels conceited or assholish, but here we are I guess
In conclusion, fuck arguing, there's this (neoliberal?) conceit that the way to be """reasonable""" is to argue and maybe some people are developed enough to do it but almost no one is and i don't know what good is done by pretending we are
