@ConradBastable - My TLP recs: Politics & polarization

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If only there was a generational essayist who wrote at length about the various societal impacts of only engaging with, only consuming, content that flattered your self image and preexisting worldview. Alas.

Conrad Bastable✓@ConradBastable

@ovid_returns raises a great point. You need to take Defense Against the Dark Arts before engaging earnestly with any of the writers I listed in this thread! Being able to critique your worldview doesn't give the author carte blanche to install theirs! https://x.com/ovid_returns/status/1778102087513178332

Ovid II@ovid_returns:
@ConradBastable I wish I'd done like Curzi when I first came across TLP, but I was young and dumb let his writings gaslight me for years that I was a fundamentally broken person. Lulie has a great thread on this: https://x.com/metaLulie/status/1343336497819357185

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Conrad Bastable✓@ConradBastable

Most humanities education focuses on “critical” reading, aka delivering a critique is a sign of intellectual rigor. Result: if you present a critique of society your audience cannot answer, you’ll end up with leagues of young followers whether you want them or not. (This is bad for you if you become a follower)

MC_Enthusiast@Laserpig_Utopia:
This isn't really relevant to the beef, but this is a nontrivial task with genuine dangers for anyone who cannot maintain a separate frame from the writer (e.g. most people), especially for persuasive writers which I would say TLP certainly can be.

Conrad Bastable✓@ConradBastable

@ovid_returns Of course much of his writing is a little more…like this. But hey. If you can laugh at it, it’s not such a bad interlude between bits of prescience.

Conrad Bastable@ConradBastable:
@deepfates @moultano @samtomco lmao god damn it Me: if you were reading TLP, you’d have foreseen ISIS, made a million on Google stock, and built a long happy marriage You: here he says im not cool enough to rotate my monitor 90 degrees & steve jobs was axed for trying to show the sheeple how to be free 🤷‍♂️

Conrad Bastable✓@ConradBastable

2024-04-10

My TLP recs: Politics & polarization: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/05/the_wrong_lessons… Investing & moral hazard: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/08/interest_rates_an… Violence & power: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/10/whos_afraid_of_li… Male relationship failure (+part 2): https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/12/i_am_tiger_woods_… Fiction: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/07/the_boy_who_learn… [link to Tweet](https://x.com/moultano/status/1778101320882553179)

Ryan Moulton@moultano2024-04-10
@ConradBastable Any, just whatever he does best.

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