honesty is a slippery concept.
I've often found myself online (the Internet allows for this) embroiled in two arguments simultaneously and both arguments being about the same thing, and I'm arguing for one side with one person and on the other side with the other person and I haven't had any cognitive dissonance, no sense that this was dishonest. I meant everything I said.
you have alt accounts here?
sometimes you have to shut up
you have alt accounts here?
and this is a very particular place, on the one hand a totally insular group of people who've known eachother for nearly 2 decades and still a public place where people use their real names, theyll naturally feel protective when the lads whatsapp jokes could potentially be misconstrued by people they might like to show this to.
theres a self awareness and general messianic complex here that is completely deserved but also something youre unlikely to find at electriciansforum.net
of course, that's why i said admitting not celebrating. recognising you're a stupid egotistical cunt and struggling against it daily
In the recent past I spent a fair amount of time inviting people here. Old members Im still in contact with, lurkers I know in other contexts, people I think would be interesting, after all, the more voices the better.
Ive stopped now, because of some of the worst excesses, and, no word of a lie, of fear of how they might be treated.
There are demons that have been chained under the earth and if you free them you can kind of ride to power on them. That's how I see Thatcher and Trump and all sorts of other things
this is something we talked about a bit i the cringeworthy thread, pressing those buttons, tapping into the energy around social norms, transgressing and riding on the cringe, shame, embarassment, outrage
That century of the self series is another thing that's good at highlighting how 'honesty' can be cover for something darker and more self serving.