Status Updates From Slate Star Codex Abridged

Bertrand Russell said: “One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”

What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?

Real arguments aren’t about what words you can apply to things and how nasty they sound, real arguments about what good or bad consequences those things produce.

We are a culture engaged in the continuing project of subverting itself. Our heroes have been toppled, our rituals mocked , and one gains status by figuring out new and better ways to show how the things that should unite us are actually stupid and oppressive.