And this comment felt even more approachable than the post.
I think because it’s owning your experience more? You’re less making a claim about what’s happening with other people’s psychologies, and more like talking about 1) a selection mechanism that we can discuss from the third person perspective, and 2) your own epistemic vantage point.
”It looks to me like you’re wrapped up in a trauma narrative, but I’m mostly not going to bother to respond to your object level arguments”, is an annoying kind of critique, because there’s basically no way to falsify it.
”I don’t know what your reasons are, and for all I know maybe they’re good, but from my perspective, I can’t distinguish you being right from you falling into [specific memetic attractor]” is subtly different somehow.
And this comment felt even more approachable than the post.
I think because it’s owning your experience more? You’re less making a claim about what’s happening with other people’s psychologies, and more like talking about 1) a selection mechanism that we can discuss from the third person perspective, and 2) your own epistemic vantage point.
”It looks to me like you’re wrapped up in a trauma narrative, but I’m mostly not going to bother to respond to your object level arguments”, is an annoying kind of critique, because there’s basically no way to falsify it.
”I don’t know what your reasons are, and for all I know maybe they’re good, but from my perspective, I can’t distinguish you being right from you falling into [specific memetic attractor]” is subtly different somehow.
I feel resoundingly good about that comment.