Did I bring the weather with me or something? I’ve spent the last year stuffing my brain with content just like this. A large part of why I joined LW was to get away from it, because I realized that being so immersed in political discussion and argument was damaging me as a rationalist and a person. I started catching myself rationalizing, using arguments as soldiers, holding up applause lights, the works. I was chain-smoking political content, swinging between outrage and fear and team-cheering and disgusted fuck-it-all-anyway cynicism. It was making me anxious and miserable but it’s so addictive.
It’s not a coincidence that I’ve joined LW in January. One of my goals for this year was to force myself stick to a healthier “mental diet”. Get my ass off twitter, seek out useful and enriching information, and strictly limit my intake of current political content.
LW seemed like a good place to do all of that. I joined on the understanding that current politics was a seldom-to-never thing here, and that if we wanted to discuss how rationality and politics intersect (valid and useful thing to do) we’d be using examples from the past or hypotheticals from the future.
Now in the five days since I’ve joined there have been a Brexit-post—worrying but arguably a justifiable exception given the content—and this, this useless article that taught me nothing new.
I’m a new member and I have no right to breeze in here and tell you guys how to run your show—but like I say, my brain is trying to eat healthy this year and I can’t stay on this site if people are going to keep offering me cupcakes and telling me one won’t kill me.
Did I bring the weather with me or something? I’ve spent the last year stuffing my brain with content just like this. A large part of why I joined LW was to get away from it, because I realized that being so immersed in political discussion and argument was damaging me as a rationalist and a person. I started catching myself rationalizing, using arguments as soldiers, holding up applause lights, the works. I was chain-smoking political content, swinging between outrage and fear and team-cheering and disgusted fuck-it-all-anyway cynicism. It was making me anxious and miserable but it’s so addictive.
It’s not a coincidence that I’ve joined LW in January. One of my goals for this year was to force myself stick to a healthier “mental diet”. Get my ass off twitter, seek out useful and enriching information, and strictly limit my intake of current political content.
LW seemed like a good place to do all of that. I joined on the understanding that current politics was a seldom-to-never thing here, and that if we wanted to discuss how rationality and politics intersect (valid and useful thing to do) we’d be using examples from the past or hypotheticals from the future.
Now in the five days since I’ve joined there have been a Brexit-post—worrying but arguably a justifiable exception given the content—and this, this useless article that taught me nothing new.
I’m a new member and I have no right to breeze in here and tell you guys how to run your show—but like I say, my brain is trying to eat healthy this year and I can’t stay on this site if people are going to keep offering me cupcakes and telling me one won’t kill me.