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What You Can't Say
20 hours ago
- Fashion, both in clothing and morality, is often invisible to those within it but can be arbitrary and dangerous, especially when moral fashions suppress truth.
- To discover what we cannot say, one can examine ideas that get people in trouble, historical shifts in acceptability, and the mechanisms by which taboos are created and enforced.
- A strategic approach to thinking freely involves keeping thoughts private, engaging with trusted friends, and using abstraction, metaphor, or humor to challenge taboos without direct confrontation.
- Critical self-awareness and questioning societal norms are essential to identify and resist the influence of contemporary moral fashions.
Novelty and Heresy
20 hours ago
- Discovering new things often leads to accusations of heresy against established assumptions.
- Good but non-obvious ideas are hidden by mistaken assumptions that people strongly defend.
- Resisting heresy creates 'dead zones' of unexplored ideas around cherished false beliefs.
- Suppressing heresies blocks both direct contradictions and indirect implications against assumptions.
- Actively seeking heresies can turn dead zones into valuable sources for new ideas.
Heresy
20 hours ago
- 当代社会出现了类似宗教异端的概念，某些观点被禁止表达，且优先于真伪判断。
- 异端的两个核心特征：一是优先于事实真假，二是压倒说话者的其他所有贡献。
- 不宽容的根源在于激进的传统主义者与意识形态的结合，当前浪潮来自左翼，但未来可能来自右翼。
- 尽管自由表达的空间在过去十年缩小，但长期趋势仍乐观，可以通过社会抗体抵抗异端概念。
Heresy
10 days ago
- The concept of heresy has re-emerged in modern employment contexts, akin to historical prohibitions.
- Heresy is structurally defined by prioritizing condemnation over truth and outweighing all other contributions.
- Labeling statements with terms like 'x-ist' ends discussions without evaluating truth, akin to heresy accusations.
- Public expression of heresy can lead to severe consequences, like job loss, regardless of past achievements.
- Heresy treats opinions like crimes, prompting punishment desires stronger than for actual offenses.
- Intolerant waves arise from conventional-minded individuals aligning under strict, arbitrary ideologies.
- A new ideology with moral purity emerged in US universities since the late 1980s, fueling intolerance.
- Avoiding specific heresies highlights universal tactics of heretic hunters and ensures relevance over time.
- The current intolerance wave comes from the left, but future ones could originate from the right.
- Freedom of expression has declined since about 1985, contrary to earlier expectations of growth.
- Pushing back against suppression of ideas is crucial, akin to developing social antibodies.
- Optimism persists due to long-term improvements in expression freedom and signs the intolerance wave is peaking.

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