I came across LW whilst prompting search engines for publishers that my work would be suited to, work which I have nearly concluded, and work in which the goal has been to make an impenetrable behavioural model for a functional and objectively fair society. I started this project roughly 4 years ago after being discriminated against during an interview process for a role in concept art at a AAA company following a prompt on my perspective to social issues—in particular on this occasion trans.
Over the last decade I have struggled greatly. At first with myself, internalising the miscommunication issues between myself, friends and family. Later with communication itself, what is the blockade preventing my thought processes from being received neutrally, and then later to which extent I wish to represent my inclination towards solving contentious issues. Over this period I have been repeatedly described as immoral, on the ‘wrong side of history’, thinking ‘too far ahead’, and most oftenly—and perhaps most palatably—simply obsessive. I don’t know why I care about the things I do so much, but to those that ask why I do, I often feel ‘why do they not?‘.
Due to the complex and often intense feelings of moral conflict I have felt because of this, I have had an ‘on-and-off’ relationship with constructing the objective framework since 2021. Often bouncing between what I feel is a crucial contribution of effort to progress, and the over shadowing self-alienation of ‘unhealthy obsession’ around issues that have driven a wedge between my ability to connect with my friends, family and career prospects.
I used to feel that most conversations around contentious issues required two conversations. The first was to meet a condition of ‘why it is not wrong to offer dissenting opinion’ or perhaps more bluntly ‘why I’m not a bad person’ - establishing equal footing for fruitful conversation by appealing to virtues such as; everyones right to happiness, or not wanting individuals to suffer. After which the second conversation could be hosted—the actual topic intended to discuss in the first place, whatever that contentious issue may be. Meeting that condition however, never felt attainable.
Over time realising—individuals can only meet you on depths they have met themselves—having these conversations with those outside of my natural environment who were already discussing these issues, didn’t feel like contention, but collaboration. Due to my social rearing—liberal upbringing and surrounding creative environment—I had been laced at odds with myself all the while feeling like I had difficulty understanding why I was so wrong, instead of understanding that I was simply misunderstood. Pre—and post—understanding this sentiment, for better or worse, this has been my driver to communicate a framework as efficiently as possible, as the only method I can constructively resort to in order to potentially communicate with siblings, friends, and the ideologically conformed infrastructure around the creative industry that has held me back.
I’m hoping that the framework I contribute will be beneficial to educational bodies, the work sector, and a shift in how as a society we approach politics by introducing a concrete framework with objective and immutable laws of good and bad and some minor emphasis on how this relates to social issue generalities. On the whole a guide to a behavioural completionist society. Whenever I have felt awful, I have assumed others must feel worse, and I hope this too helps them. The framework is not intended to fix all issues, but it is intended to fix what I consider to be a broken language, lacking a spine necessary to make it as valuable and binary as Mathematics.
I’m not sure how much I want to say yet, but when it’s finished I have been compiling a list of priority and secondary contacts I can forward the material onto, and will likely drop aspects here for assessment. I’ve read some aspects of the governing ideals behind those who use this site and I absolutely love the soft nudges towards healthy discourse, and critical thought processes. I find it very encouraging!
I do struggle with ADD (which can be a double edged sword), so writing the framework has been challenging, though I’ve recently picked up Scrivener which seems to be helping the organisational aspects a lot.
Anyway, maybe I’m delusional, but thanks for reading!
Hi LW,
I came across LW whilst prompting search engines for publishers that my work would be suited to, work which I have nearly concluded, and work in which the goal has been to make an impenetrable behavioural model for a functional and objectively fair society. I started this project roughly 4 years ago after being discriminated against during an interview process for a role in concept art at a AAA company following a prompt on my perspective to social issues—in particular on this occasion trans.
Over the last decade I have struggled greatly. At first with myself, internalising the miscommunication issues between myself, friends and family. Later with communication itself, what is the blockade preventing my thought processes from being received neutrally, and then later to which extent I wish to represent my inclination towards solving contentious issues. Over this period I have been repeatedly described as immoral, on the ‘wrong side of history’, thinking ‘too far ahead’, and most oftenly—and perhaps most palatably—simply obsessive. I don’t know why I care about the things I do so much, but to those that ask why I do, I often feel ‘why do they not?‘.
Due to the complex and often intense feelings of moral conflict I have felt because of this, I have had an ‘on-and-off’ relationship with constructing the objective framework since 2021. Often bouncing between what I feel is a crucial contribution of effort to progress, and the over shadowing self-alienation of ‘unhealthy obsession’ around issues that have driven a wedge between my ability to connect with my friends, family and career prospects.
I used to feel that most conversations around contentious issues required two conversations. The first was to meet a condition of ‘why it is not wrong to offer dissenting opinion’ or perhaps more bluntly ‘why I’m not a bad person’ - establishing equal footing for fruitful conversation by appealing to virtues such as; everyones right to happiness, or not wanting individuals to suffer. After which the second conversation could be hosted—the actual topic intended to discuss in the first place, whatever that contentious issue may be. Meeting that condition however, never felt attainable.
Over time realising—individuals can only meet you on depths they have met themselves—having these conversations with those outside of my natural environment who were already discussing these issues, didn’t feel like contention, but collaboration. Due to my social rearing—liberal upbringing and surrounding creative environment—I had been laced at odds with myself all the while feeling like I had difficulty understanding why I was so wrong, instead of understanding that I was simply misunderstood. Pre—and post—understanding this sentiment, for better or worse, this has been my driver to communicate a framework as efficiently as possible, as the only method I can constructively resort to in order to potentially communicate with siblings, friends, and the ideologically conformed infrastructure around the creative industry that has held me back.
I’m hoping that the framework I contribute will be beneficial to educational bodies, the work sector, and a shift in how as a society we approach politics by introducing a concrete framework with objective and immutable laws of good and bad and some minor emphasis on how this relates to social issue generalities. On the whole a guide to a behavioural completionist society. Whenever I have felt awful, I have assumed others must feel worse, and I hope this too helps them. The framework is not intended to fix all issues, but it is intended to fix what I consider to be a broken language, lacking a spine necessary to make it as valuable and binary as Mathematics.
I’m not sure how much I want to say yet, but when it’s finished I have been compiling a list of priority and secondary contacts I can forward the material onto, and will likely drop aspects here for assessment. I’ve read some aspects of the governing ideals behind those who use this site and I absolutely love the soft nudges towards healthy discourse, and critical thought processes. I find it very encouraging!
I do struggle with ADD (which can be a double edged sword), so writing the framework has been challenging, though I’ve recently picked up Scrivener which seems to be helping the organisational aspects a lot.
Anyway, maybe I’m delusional, but thanks for reading!
DM me when you’re finished, I want to see what you come up with.
I’d like to see your work, when it’s ready to be shared.