Maybe it’s because I’ve read other posts like this, but I read it as expressing the unspoken assumptions of a particular group, not trying to get others to adopt them. That is, I took the scare quotes around “be reasonable” as actually self-effacing. I mean, it’s obvious that the author does think these are good things, but the post came across to me as descriptive. If the post were written so as to imply that some people actively endorse the opposite of these things, eg, “pointless busywork is cool” then that would be obnoxious, but it seems worthwhile to me to point out that many people don’t pay much attention to busywork either way and it’s not a factor in their evaluation or decisionmaking.
I may also be biased because I love hearing about how different implicit assumptions and perspectives lead to different experiences, so that’s what I went in wanting to read (and was satisfied).
Maybe it’s because I’ve read other posts like this, but I read it as expressing the unspoken assumptions of a particular group, not trying to get others to adopt them. That is, I took the scare quotes around “be reasonable” as actually self-effacing. I mean, it’s obvious that the author does think these are good things, but the post came across to me as descriptive. If the post were written so as to imply that some people actively endorse the opposite of these things, eg, “pointless busywork is cool” then that would be obnoxious, but it seems worthwhile to me to point out that many people don’t pay much attention to busywork either way and it’s not a factor in their evaluation or decisionmaking.
I may also be biased because I love hearing about how different implicit assumptions and perspectives lead to different experiences, so that’s what I went in wanting to read (and was satisfied).