If I could get you to care enough
About these matters
Of world-class importance—
If I could get you to
Dream your own dreams about them,
Rather than merely to lean on mine—
Category Archives: Politics
The Deep Things
You can talk about the deep things
With your friends,
But most aren’t very good at it.
If You Really Want to Know
If you really want to know the man,
Look at what he will tolerate
And what he won’t.
Did You Know?
Bolstering the Notion
It seems there’s generally always
Somebody trying to take a new stab
At bolstering the notion that
People who don’t do anything substantial
To stop evil can themselves be good.
Censorship in the Name of Avoiding Social Media “Silos”
I’m listening to a podcast discussion in which both sides are pretty clearly sympathetic to a certain mega social media platform and its attempts to regulate free speech in the name of keeping the members from “getting into silos”. The idea of the discussion is that you have to step in and regulate things, or else, the participants in the community will be drawn only to the camps that gather around their own favorite points of view. And so the hunt is on, it seems, for the most effective and efficient ways to do this—apparently, to inject an alternate point of view into discussions on the platform.
And is anything wrong with this?
Continue reading Censorship in the Name of Avoiding Social Media “Silos”When They Are Free
When they are free,
They will tell you at last
What they think.
And they will have questions.
Lots of questions.
What If Humans Were So Dull?
I Get More Support
I notice that I get more support
When I am writing to rebuke
Some widely-hated evil
Than when writing to promote
Some widely-neglected good.
Two Common Ways (and One Uncommon) to Keep a High Self Esteem
There are at least
Two common ways
To keep a high self esteem,
And one hard way.
The first way is by the ignorance
Of low self-awareness.
That is, pay no attention
To what’s wrong with you,
And you can assume by default that
You must be a pretty good person!