20072022 - 1-something-AM
behold an assortment of thoughts (read: tweets) in favor of being wrong:
i want to live in a world where everybody is always wrong about everything all the time (it's a good thing i feel that way because it is already the case)
being excited means knowing that you’re in the wrong place right now, that what you’re looking for is not HERE
when you are annoyed with arguments that boil down to "its just subjective maaan" its because intellectually you have no defense for it but still need an excuse to impose on other people the value distinctions you spent all this time working on but can't say that out loud
embracing contradiction probably looks like "blind contrarianism" to someone that thinks people should have consistent views (or worse, think they themselves have consistent views). i get around this by simply accepting being wrong all the time
putting things into baskets is not knowledge. the purpose of making distinctions (including “right” and “wrong”) and separating things out from the shapeless mass of reality is to make better puzzle pieces out of them that will ultimately be synthesized. make distinction -> create concept of a thing -> put them together to build systems; as systems are built from parts of the world which has been separated via distinctions, it must follow that all systems/frames are necessarily incomplete and useful only for specific purposes.
∴ a theoretically complete system is indistinguishable from chaosi have an aversion to people who "take themselves seriously" - this is because i feel that i don't deserve to take myself seriously.
i find epistemic arrogance distasteful - this is because i am very unconfident in my own knowledge
(AND THAT’S GOOD)seriously, what’s wrong with being wrong about stuff? other than it’s wrong lol
what people sometimes mean when they say “you’re wrong”:
you are a bad person
we don’t share fundamental assumptions about how the world works and that makes you a bad person
you don’t have the same reasoning system that i do (i.e. we have different ideas about what coherent reasoning looks like) and that makes you a bad person
do what i tell you to do
etc. (above is non-exhaustive list)
ok look, now i’m gonna come clean. i know that people aren’t really out to hurt me. i know that being clear and precise with communication is useful and important and trying your hardest to be right is a truly noble endeavor. we should all try our best to be right and good, for the good of society and ok i can’t stop gagging.
here’s the thing. what i said above are true even if i can barely finish a whole paragraph describing what you’re supposed to do to be right and good and prosocial. here’s another thing that’s true. there are people who are out to hurt me. there are people who, if i’m not careful, will take advantage of me.
it’s true- i’m projecting, i’m being insecure, i’m being weak, i can’t accept the world as it is and must hide in a corner, protected behind a facade of “i know i’m wrong”, so no one can judge me. but but but. it’s also true that there is danger in the world1, and i come from places where my stance was warranted. “maladaptive” “coping mechanisms” were once adapted due to being effective strategies, and i believe that just because it worked doesn’t mean i was wrong to be that way, when i was that way2.
please don’t reach out to argue with me on this, i already know i’m terribly wrong and misguided (also i’m too weak to take your criticism).
i initially wrote “the world is a dangeorus place” instead of “there is danger in the world”. that’s not fair to the world and here i admit to being wrong on that
this sentence cracks me up hahaha i’m sorry if u don’t get it