I think you are pointing at an important referent. There are probably a lot of people who will benefit from reading this post and thus I’m glad that you wrote it. That said, you appear to have written it in a deliberately confusing manner. You probably have your reasons. Maybe you believe that this way would be better for the people you are trying to help. I’m not an expert in Lacanianism, but I think this is wrong, both ethically and epistemologically. The are also a lot of people who will misunderstand this post incorrectly and for whom reading it will cause harm. To the best of my knowledge, the gains still outweight the losses, but you are leaving utility on the table by not trying to meet LW epistemic standards of clarity.
The meta-framework of memetics can be useful, but one have to be careful with it as with any other meta-framework in order not to lose the ability to talk about objective matters. The lesson of having a safe distance from your memes in order to stay sane is important. Likewise, the idea that you do not have to calibrate your feelings to the global grimness of the world. But you enshroud it in the smugness of “seeing through the game” while uncoupling memes from their truth predicate, which I find potentially harmful and quite tasteless. I hope it really serve some therapeutic purpose for the target audience.
I think you are pointing at an important referent. There are probably a lot of people who will benefit from reading this post and thus I’m glad that you wrote it. That said, you appear to have written it in a deliberately confusing manner. You probably have your reasons. Maybe you believe that this way would be better for the people you are trying to help. I’m not an expert in Lacanianism, but I think this is wrong, both ethically and epistemologically. The are also a lot of people who will misunderstand this post incorrectly and for whom reading it will cause harm. To the best of my knowledge, the gains still outweight the losses, but you are leaving utility on the table by not trying to meet LW epistemic standards of clarity.
The meta-framework of memetics can be useful, but one have to be careful with it as with any other meta-framework in order not to lose the ability to talk about objective matters. The lesson of having a safe distance from your memes in order to stay sane is important. Likewise, the idea that you do not have to calibrate your feelings to the global grimness of the world. But you enshroud it in the smugness of “seeing through the game” while uncoupling memes from their truth predicate, which I find potentially harmful and quite tasteless. I hope it really serve some therapeutic purpose for the target audience.