From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:05:11 +0000 (-0800) Subject: outline points for "An Infovist's Advisory" (from my email to BBL) X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3cd00b62f862e3b2952b4f0bc89c4e7a35cd5ad;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git outline points for "An Infovist's Advisory" (from my email to BBL) --- diff --git a/content/drafts/an-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md b/content/drafts/an-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md index 22b7357..da65a67 100644 --- a/content/drafts/an-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md +++ b/content/drafts/an-infovists-advisory-or-standing-athwart-history-yelling-wait-i-like-the-idea-but.md @@ -8,4 +8,23 @@ TODO OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT— - * \ No newline at end of file + * the current situation re MtF is crazy + * activists who want to change society are both incentivized and selected for self-delusion— + * incentivized because: ... ? (Exercise: what was I thinking when I said + this?) + * selected-for because: ... ? (Exercise) + * some kind of Goodheart's-law/Berkson's-paradox-like phenomenon?? + * Whichever activists happen to win get to write the history books, and so + most people end up with this Whig history view of the world where people in + the past were bad, bad men, but we're so much more progressive and + enlightened now. But evolutionarily speaking, there's no fact of the matter + as to what's better; there's only what won. + * A lot of intellectuals try to avoid politics: if your only choices are the "maximize the number of trans people" coalition vs. a "minimize the number of trans people" coalition, then it makes sense to sit it out + * But maybe there's a role for a more narrowly-targeted form of political + behavior (making friends and allies, trading favors, alienating people, + &c.), with the goal of just getting the correct theory (sexual dimorphism is + real, societies have gender roles, there are these two distinct classes of + motivation for why transitioning might seem like a good idea to someone) in + the standard sex-ed textbooks, but not trying to dictate what the social + norms of who should transition should be, who should pay for it, + &c. "Infovism" rather than activism.