I think there’s an aesthetic clash here somewhere. I have an intuition or like… an aesthetic impulse, telling me basically… “advocacy is dumb”. Whenever I see anybody Doing An Activism, they’re usually… saying a bunch of… obviously false things? They’re holding a sign with a slogan that’s too simple to possibly be the truth, and yelling this obviously oversimplified thing as loudly as they possibly can? It feels like the archetype of overconfidence.
This is exactly the same thing that I have felt in the past. Extremely well said. It is worth pointing out explicitly that this is not a rational thought—it’s an Ugh Field around advocacy, and even if the thought is true, that doesn’t mean all advocacy has to be this way.
This is exactly the same thing that I have felt in the past. Extremely well said. It is worth pointing out explicitly that this is not a rational thought—it’s an Ugh Field around advocacy, and even if the thought is true, that doesn’t mean all advocacy has to be this way.
Sometimes such feelings are your system 1 tracking real/important things that your system 2 hasn’t figured out yet.