Verbs and flattery, that’s an improvement.

“Proof you can explicitly structure a community around being ethical and rational and someone will still manage to sleep their way to the top.”

That probably comes off more venomous than I actually feel but it’s too good a line to delete, to the extent there’s a moral there it’s not “slut! jezebel!!” but “if the only rule structuring your hierarchy is voluntarism, power will inevitably follow charisma”, perhaps crossed with one of my favorite morals, “awareness of does not equal exemption from”.

As a thinker/writer, entire stance is leveraged out from “though I know I’m crazy I don’t want to be put under control of the sane”, which is sympathetic but still a weak reed.

Generalizing to “though we’re crazy, we shouldn’t be put under control of the sane” shows charity and metaawareness but not particular mercy or wisdom, especially in how the “know” and “want” parts are elided.

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’s blog hoo boy

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.

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 ‘60s-‘70s, where petty charismatic authorities (professors, psychiatrists, priests/youth pastors/cult leaders, coaches) would engage in intense relationships with the vulnerable where they’d give them seriously valuable guidance through personal development AND using them as hot flexible little fucktoys.

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

You’ll notice I’ve avoided pronouns in this post, that’s how I reconcile politeness with integrity.