• @blakestaceyMA
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    1314 days ago

    From page 17:

    Rather than encouraging critical thinking, in core EA the injunction to take unusual ideas seriously means taking one very specific set of unusual ideas seriously, and then providing increasingly convoluted philosophical justifications for why those particular ideas matter most.

    ding ding ding

    • -dsr-
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      38 days ago

      You must prove yourself in the Outer Circle before being granted leave to study the Inner Mysteries. Or at least attend the right parties.

      • David GerardOPMA
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        17 days ago

        * join the right polycules