First, I’m not the one who wrote “Politics is the Mindkiller.”
This reminds me of a discussion I had on naming the article. I was reluctant to give it a title and prefered “On Conspiracy Theories”, because giving a post a memorable title seems to cause the meaning of the article to over time the meaning of the article will converge with its title.
I suspect this is because we like linking articles, and while people may read a link the first time, they don’t tend to read it the second or third time it is linked. Eventually a phrase that is supposed to be a shorthand for a nuanced argument starts to mean exactly how it is used.
I cited precisely “Politics is the Mindkiller” as an example of this. In the original article Eliezer basically argues that gratuitous politics, political thinking that isn’t outweighed by its value to the art of rationality is to be avoided. This soon came to meant it is forbidden to discuss politics in Main and Discussion articles (though politics does live in the comment sections).
Since the personal is the political, we pretty quickly started applying this kind of thinking to PUA and Gender relations in general as well, though we may not cite is as often.
This reminds me of a discussion I had on naming the article. I was reluctant to give it a title and prefered “On Conspiracy Theories”, because giving a post a memorable title seems to cause the meaning of the article to over time the meaning of the article will converge with its title.
I suspect this is because we like linking articles, and while people may read a link the first time, they don’t tend to read it the second or third time it is linked. Eventually a phrase that is supposed to be a shorthand for a nuanced argument starts to mean exactly how it is used.
I cited precisely “Politics is the Mindkiller” as an example of this. In the original article Eliezer basically argues that gratuitous politics, political thinking that isn’t outweighed by its value to the art of rationality is to be avoided. This soon came to meant it is forbidden to discuss politics in Main and Discussion articles (though politics does live in the comment sections).
Since the personal is the political, we pretty quickly started applying this kind of thinking to PUA and Gender relations in general as well, though we may not cite is as often.