Well, that’s for the moderator to decide. I think the points are legitimate and if someone paints a personal narrative onto something it’s fine to point out the narrative as you see it.
Giving a highly mimetic name to something, a really compelling object-level mental framework, and putting a personal narrative behind it is a really big deal and actually significantly alters people’s thought processes in a way they don’t easily detect. I’m not actually sure that anyone should do this in any situation.
And when you tie this into an ongoing moral issue with real consequences—this is just a really big deal. I think the justice system is super important, I think the blog-sphere is much more influential than people realize, I think personal branding/distribution affects things to a really surprising degree, and stuff is leaking across which really shouldn’t.
It’s just that these are worlds that really shouldn’t be colliding and she’s apparently just decided to appoint herself as juror and burn the whole thing down. It’s not right.
Giving a highly mimetic name to something, a really compelling object-level mental framework, and putting a personal narrative behind it is a really big deal and actually significantly alters people’s thought processes in a way they don’t easily detect. I don’t think any of you realize how powerful this is and I’m not actually sure that anyone should do this in any situation.
This is frame control. It’s interesting that several commentors have expressed unease about this post because in some sense it’s doing the thing it’s trying to point out.
Well, that’s for the moderator to decide. I think the points are legitimate and if someone paints a personal narrative onto something it’s fine to point out the narrative as you see it.
Giving a highly mimetic name to something, a really compelling object-level mental framework, and putting a personal narrative behind it is a really big deal and actually significantly alters people’s thought processes in a way they don’t easily detect. I’m not actually sure that anyone should do this in any situation.
And when you tie this into an ongoing moral issue with real consequences—this is just a really big deal. I think the justice system is super important, I think the blog-sphere is much more influential than people realize, I think personal branding/distribution affects things to a really surprising degree, and stuff is leaking across which really shouldn’t.
It’s just that these are worlds that really shouldn’t be colliding and she’s apparently just decided to appoint herself as juror and burn the whole thing down. It’s not right.
This is frame control. It’s interesting that several commentors have expressed unease about this post because in some sense it’s doing the thing it’s trying to point out.
Right—in my opinion it’s better if it’s obvious!