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Anonymous asked: What is your opinion of ozymandias271? You seem a good judge of character.
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Verbs and flattery, that\u2019s an improvement.

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\u201cProof you can explicitly structure a community around being ethical and rational and someone will still manage to sleep their way to the top.\u201d

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That probably comes off more venomous than I actually feel but it\u2019s too good a line to delete, to the extent there\u2019s a moral there it\u2019s not \u201cslut! jezebel!!\u201d but \u201cif the only rule structuring your hierarchy is voluntarism, power will inevitably follow charisma\u201d, perhaps crossed with one of my favorite morals, \u201cawareness of does not equal exemption from\u201d.

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As a thinker/writer, entire stance is leveraged out from \u201cthough I know I\u2019m crazy I don\u2019t want to be put under control of the sane\u201d, which is sympathetic but still a weak reed.\n

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\nGeneralizing to \u201cthough we\u2019re crazy, we shouldn\u2019t be put under control of the sane\u201d shows charity and metaawareness but not particular mercy or wisdom, especially in how the \u201cknow\u201d and \u201cwant\u201d parts are elided.

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Might be more pose than persona, a lot of the positions people put forward most actively are defensive negations of their actual selves, fetish/kinks are the big things where the shirt shows through the slashed doublet and the thing with Jim\u2019s blog hoo boy

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Kinda self-aware but not enough about how crafting a successful life has involved arranging submission of will to multiple sane lovers, specifically who being no less an accident of fate.

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As such, basically reinventing catamacy. (From catamite. La LA la la la la la la la, catamacy damascene.) Like the thing, recent local maxima the \u201860s-‘70s, where petty charismatic authorities (professors, psychiatrists, priests/youth pastors/cult leaders, coaches) would engage in intense relationships with the vulnerable where they\u2019d give them seriously valuable guidance through personal development AND using them as hot flexible little fucktoys.

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You know, the thing the current consensus defines itself against, that the coming generation is learning to define ITSELF against?

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You\u2019ll notice I\u2019ve avoided pronouns in this post, that\u2019s how I reconcile politeness with integrity.

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