I’m serious about the propositional content and implied emotional attitude towards it, but not about my means of expressing it or choosing to do so in the first place. I thought it sincerely, and assumed you would assume that I thought it sincerely, and so I posted it because verbalizing socially inappropriate thoughts that everyone-knows-one-is-thinking-anyway is funny, and because we’ve had friendly enough interactions in the past (whilst acknowledging mutual indexical evil) that I didn’t think you would infer that it constituted a “real” social attack.
Does that make sense? (It’s also about the limit in terms of how many orders of intentionality I can work with, if you want to run circles around me in our next/this interaction.)
I posted it because verbalizing socially inappropriate thoughts that everyone-knows-one-is-thinking-anyway is funny, and because we’ve had friendly enough interactions in the past (whilst acknowledging mutual indexical evil) that I didn’t think you would infer that it constituted a “real” social attack.
Yes it did make me laugh. I just wasn’t sure about the intent.
I’m serious about the propositional content and implied emotional attitude towards it, but not about my means of expressing it or choosing to do so in the first place. I thought it sincerely, and assumed you would assume that I thought it sincerely, and so I posted it because verbalizing socially inappropriate thoughts that everyone-knows-one-is-thinking-anyway is funny, and because we’ve had friendly enough interactions in the past (whilst acknowledging mutual indexical evil) that I didn’t think you would infer that it constituted a “real” social attack.
Does that make sense? (It’s also about the limit in terms of how many orders of intentionality I can work with, if you want to run circles around me in our next/this interaction.)
Yes it did make me laugh. I just wasn’t sure about the intent.