For me, the most significant of those efforts was My Empathy Is Rarely Kind and its Follow-up a couple weeks ago. That was the last big thing I have generally kept hidden from the world, because I feared people reacting negatively to it.
This is a bit amusing for me to read, because while I certainly didn’t have any clarity about the details, your revelations were not surprising, given what its like to interact with you in person, such that it didn’t really feel like a revelation.
To be more specific, I would have guessed that you were generally internally contemptuous of pretty much everyone in a kind of low key way, but “contemptuous” isn’t quite right, because it’s not as active as that—there’s not much emotional heat or ego attachment for you in it, it’s just kind of a background fact of your engagement with the world.
(Noting that these kinds of statements are not that reliable, due to hindsight bias).
This is a bit amusing for me to read, because while I certainly didn’t have any clarity about the details, your revelations were not surprising, given what its like to interact with you in person, such that it didn’t really feel like a revelation.
To be more specific, I would have guessed that you were generally internally contemptuous of pretty much everyone in a kind of low key way, but “contemptuous” isn’t quite right, because it’s not as active as that—there’s not much emotional heat or ego attachment for you in it, it’s just kind of a background fact of your engagement with the world.
(Noting that these kinds of statements are not that reliable, due to hindsight bias).