Everything in this post seems correct. The original post wasn’t even that wrong (your changes are all good corrections), but it seems like many people took from it a shallow, slogan-like interpretation of “politics in the mind-killer”, taking it to mean that rationally thinking about or discussing politics isn’t even worth trying.
Everything in this post seems correct. The original post wasn’t even that wrong (your changes are all good corrections), but it seems like many people took from it a shallow, slogan-like interpretation of “politics in the mind-killer”, taking it to mean that rationally thinking about or discussing politics isn’t even worth trying.
See also: Politics is hard mode, for previous discussion.
Thanks for the link!