This might sound like I'm personalizing inappropriately, but please know that I'm trying to take care not to do that. I'm not "angry" at what you wrote, and I don't mistakenly believe you've personally targeted me (as so many people seem to believe about what we write online).
As someone I suspect--but can't know--that you'd label "black pilled," my motivations are different from those you ascribe to other "black pilled" people. I genuinely don't want civil war. Genuinely don't want a revolution. Do understand that such times are misery and death. Have never denied that.
For people like me, it genuinely, truly does seem to us that we're likely too far gone. That doesn't do anything for my ego. It doesn't make me happy. It scares me. But I believe it.
You might find that stupid, retarded, unevidenced, or any other insult. Fine. But it's not because I like it, and it's not because I'm a coward or a "submissive little bitch."
I probably should have spent more time making this clearer, but I don't hear you telling people not to bother trying to change things to avert such negative outcomes. In fact, I see you as among the people doing the absolute most. Admirably so. That's the line to me. Whether people try to stop other people from trying to make things better. You're what I called someone who would consider himself a realist, this part:
There’s one fundamental difference between them and realists, even though a realist might also be convinced that only such drastic measures will help. You might be convinced of this yourself. But any sane realist will know the shock and upheaval such drastic measures would inevitably involve, and would not let the likelihood of their necessity negate all actions that have a chance, however slight, of making them unnecessary.
Message received, now running a marathon.
This might sound like I'm personalizing inappropriately, but please know that I'm trying to take care not to do that. I'm not "angry" at what you wrote, and I don't mistakenly believe you've personally targeted me (as so many people seem to believe about what we write online).
As someone I suspect--but can't know--that you'd label "black pilled," my motivations are different from those you ascribe to other "black pilled" people. I genuinely don't want civil war. Genuinely don't want a revolution. Do understand that such times are misery and death. Have never denied that.
For people like me, it genuinely, truly does seem to us that we're likely too far gone. That doesn't do anything for my ego. It doesn't make me happy. It scares me. But I believe it.
You might find that stupid, retarded, unevidenced, or any other insult. Fine. But it's not because I like it, and it's not because I'm a coward or a "submissive little bitch."
I probably should have spent more time making this clearer, but I don't hear you telling people not to bother trying to change things to avert such negative outcomes. In fact, I see you as among the people doing the absolute most. Admirably so. That's the line to me. Whether people try to stop other people from trying to make things better. You're what I called someone who would consider himself a realist, this part:
There’s one fundamental difference between them and realists, even though a realist might also be convinced that only such drastic measures will help. You might be convinced of this yourself. But any sane realist will know the shock and upheaval such drastic measures would inevitably involve, and would not let the likelihood of their necessity negate all actions that have a chance, however slight, of making them unnecessary.