“I don’t feel like writing what I have just written, nor do I feel like erasing it.”
—Kierkegaard
“I never go as a passenger”
—Melville, “Moby-Dick”
i believe in the peoples, not the individuals.
if anyone is looking last minute for something to put on their #NoKings sign, i share this with you:
“The history of the present King of [your choice here] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States”
sorry if it is on the longer side, i paraphrased it directly from the declaration of independence and those lads weren’t frugal with, or mincing, words.
“Pentagon staffers are poking fun at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with a brutal nickname, according to a report published Tuesday.
Several officials have reportedly referred to Hegseth as “Dumb McNamara,” a comparison to former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who played a central role in expanding U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, current and former U.S. officials told Zeteo Tuesday.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/pete-hegseth-given-brutal-nickname-203144886.html
if you want to test the “amount” bias, think of going to an exhibition of an artist’s work, and imagine two scenarios: one where you enter a hall with only a handful of paintings and another where you enter a hall with walls full of paintings, and consider which painter you think would be more successful.
now imagine that one is Vermeer with his dozens of paintings, and the other is Kincade with his thousands of paintings.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@argonaut/116278737206016005
humans exaggeratedly value “doing more” because we value by comparison—as opposed to intrinsically—so if we see more of something produced by someone we immediately think that someone is more capable, and thus more valuable, than some others.
(this is the lynchpin of any “exploitative capitalism” system)
social platforms—like all technology—are neither good nor bad nor neutral; they’re bullhorns, and as such their incentives are for the louder, chattier characters, simply because that is the nature of bullhorns.
so be aware that when you see a big following, for better or worse, the value most probably comes from doing more—and not necessarily better—than others.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@argonaut/116273877679033283
almost all the likes and most of the replies will usually come from people that already think alike.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@argonaut/116273845216066148
most people want their beliefs proven, not challenged.
Julie Hughes
Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️⚧️♾️🇺🇦