Update: in the past year, since writing this comment, I periodically thought ‘man, I should probably post some somewhat controversial opinions, to get into the habit of actually having the backbone to do that sometimes.’
And… well, I haven’t gotten around to it. And I think there at least is a little bit of “Ray is just being cowardly here”, but, also… it just doesn’t feel super worth it. It’s effortful to write up stuff in the first place, and I have a ton of stuff I want to write that isn’t controversial which I think is really important, and meanwhile I don’t think on the object level that any given controversial opinion was really that valuable to express except for building up my social resilience backbone.
I think “build up social resilience” is actually pretty important, enough that I lean towards “yes actually feel bad about this even though any given controversial opinion doesn’t feel very important to express”. But, whelp, here we are.
Update: in the past year, since writing this comment, I periodically thought ‘man, I should probably post some somewhat controversial opinions, to get into the habit of actually having the backbone to do that sometimes.’
And… well, I haven’t gotten around to it. And I think there at least is a little bit of “Ray is just being cowardly here”, but, also… it just doesn’t feel super worth it. It’s effortful to write up stuff in the first place, and I have a ton of stuff I want to write that isn’t controversial which I think is really important, and meanwhile I don’t think on the object level that any given controversial opinion was really that valuable to express except for building up my social resilience backbone.
I think “build up social resilience” is actually pretty important, enough that I lean towards “yes actually feel bad about this even though any given controversial opinion doesn’t feel very important to express”. But, whelp, here we are.