sock person @pianosmasher@radical.town

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It’s come to my attention that some of you might think I’m exaggerating with this toot here. So, I present to you Exhibit A, taken from the cubicle wall next to my desk

Good morning! Lost in my head again

"Are you taking over?
Or are you taking orders?"

I think about this often when questions of, say, getting people to stop using slurs arise. It's always a matter of power
"You're not going to police ME. Free speech!"
I wonder if they'd be so concerned with exercising their freedom if we lived in a system where their choices could matter
"Maybe it's YOUR fault for being offended!"
I wonder if they'd pivot to a personal responsibility narrative if that wasn't, say, the approach that corporations constantly take toward global warming, income inequality, and so on and so on

She didn't fully understand what I meant, so I elaborated a bit. "So much of ethical questions are about blaming and punishing - do we punish an action for its impact or the intent behind it?, for example. Right, well. What happens if we change what punishment looks like, if it happens at all? Wouldn't that change how punishment fits into the bigger ethical picture?"
And at this point, I could see the wheels turning in her head. She conceded it would
I then offered that changing how we govern could also change conversations about power, and at a fundamental level we previously could not access from within the same system we sought to critique. If we approach all our problems without changing the frameworks that surround, influence, and condition us, then we are all holding hammers while we make things into nails
And I want to see what a screwdriver can do

I mentioned I was an anarchist at a party once, and it caught the ear of someone curious to hear what I meant and why I'd say so. I was feeling talkative, so we sat down in a corner of the room while she asked me questions about my politics. When she got to the "but if there's no government, how will we deal with ____?" questions, I asked her a simple question before answering:
If, somehow, we abolished the prison system overnight, what do you think would happen to how we teach ethics?

See, that's the issue I have with talking about plot holes. People fundamentally miss the point. It's not that Plot Hole People don't suspend their disbelief enough. It's that they suspend it too much, and insist that the movie is not an art object, but instead an entire alternate reality in itself
Things like Wookiepedia make a lot more sense with that kind of framing

Related to plot holes is the question of "realistic" dialogue:
"That's not how people talk in real life!"
"It's a movie, not real life."
"Art is supposed to imitate life."
"It doesn't have to do so word for word."

Good morning! I get the apartment to myself tonight so I can't wait to get home from work

Is truly a doomed platform

This is still weirding me out. I've really gotta be on top of my game if she says yes to the role