(Self-review.) I think this pt. 2 is the second most interesting entry in my Whole Dumb Story memoir sequence. (Pt. 1 deals with more niche psychology stuff than the philosophical malpractice covered here; pt. 3 is a more of a grab-bag of stuff that happened between April 2019 and January 2021; pt. 4 is the climax. Expect the denouement pt. 5 in mid-2025.)
I feel a lot more at peace having this out there. (If we can’t have justice, sanity, or language, at least I got to tell my story about trying to protect them.)
The 8 karma in 97 votes is kind of funny in how nakedly political it is. (I think it was higher before the post got some negative attention on Twitter.)
Given how much prereading and editing effort had already gone into this, it’s disappointing that I didn’t get the ending right the first time. (I ended up rewriting some of the paragraphs at the end after initial publication after it didn’t land in the comments section the way I wanted it to land.)
Subsection titles would have also been a better choice for such a long piece (which was rectified for the publication of pt.s 3 and 4); I may still yet add them.
(Self-review.) I think this pt. 2 is the second most interesting entry in my Whole Dumb Story memoir sequence. (Pt. 1 deals with more niche psychology stuff than the philosophical malpractice covered here; pt. 3 is a more of a grab-bag of stuff that happened between April 2019 and January 2021; pt. 4 is the climax. Expect the denouement pt. 5 in mid-2025.)
I feel a lot more at peace having this out there. (If we can’t have justice, sanity, or language, at least I got to tell my story about trying to protect them.)
The 8 karma in 97 votes is kind of funny in how nakedly political it is. (I think it was higher before the post got some negative attention on Twitter.)
Given how much prereading and editing effort had already gone into this, it’s disappointing that I didn’t get the ending right the first time. (I ended up rewriting some of the paragraphs at the end after initial publication after it didn’t land in the comments section the way I wanted it to land.)
Subsection titles would have also been a better choice for such a long piece (which was rectified for the publication of pt.s 3 and 4); I may still yet add them.