Reading this post and the comments to it, I think that “Fake Bold Iconoclasm” may actually be a more important category than taboo truths.
As to taboo truths, I think that most would be along the lines of futility of discourse, and maybe some as to failures of ethics/meta-ethics, such as possibly ‘a huge amount of what we consider absolutely bad and universally traumatizing is actually socially constructed’.
Reading this post and the comments to it, I think that “Fake Bold Iconoclasm” may actually be a more important category than taboo truths.
As to taboo truths, I think that most would be along the lines of futility of discourse, and maybe some as to failures of ethics/meta-ethics, such as possibly ‘a huge amount of what we consider absolutely bad and universally traumatizing is actually socially constructed’.
Ooh, that’s a good one.