This carries the slight problem that people tend to get offended when they realize you’re explicitly catering to an audience. If I talked about the plight of the poor and meritocracy to liberals and about responsibility and family to conservatives, advocating the exact same position to each, and then each group found out about the speech I gave to the other, they would both start thinking of me as a duplicitous snake. They might start yelling about “Eli Sennesh’s conspiracy to pass a basic income guarantee” or something like that: my policy would seem “eviler” for being able to be upheld from seemingly disjoint perspectives.
Right, I wouldn’t advocate having contradictory presentations, but rather choosing a target audience that best fits your personality and strengths, and then sticking to that.
This carries the slight problem that people tend to get offended when they realize you’re explicitly catering to an audience. If I talked about the plight of the poor and meritocracy to liberals and about responsibility and family to conservatives, advocating the exact same position to each, and then each group found out about the speech I gave to the other, they would both start thinking of me as a duplicitous snake. They might start yelling about “Eli Sennesh’s conspiracy to pass a basic income guarantee” or something like that: my policy would seem “eviler” for being able to be upheld from seemingly disjoint perspectives.
Right, I wouldn’t advocate having contradictory presentations, but rather choosing a target audience that best fits your personality and strengths, and then sticking to that.