1. I Detransitioned. But Not Because I Wasn't Trans.

There’s something so glaringly obvious about the people Singal interviewed for his feature on detransitioning. Did you catch it? They’re all alive.

In a 2015 study conducted by PACE, an LGBT mental-health charity, 48 percent of trans people under the age of 26 said they had attempted suicide. Additionally, 59 percent reported considering it in the past year. For the sake of comparison, the PACE study also found that only 26 percent of cisgender people under the age of 26 had ever attempted suicide.

YEP, TV and filmmaking and fuck, all culture making -- is people going, I’m okay! And people who are similar to me are okay! Watch this ½ hour then be more on my side! In case of Armageddon! Zika! Trump! Hitler! We all need friends and so we make tribes with our art.

Yes, simply put, Protagonism is Propaganda.

Protagonism is Propaganda that protects and perpetuates privilege.


If Protagonism is Propaganda that protects and perpetuates privilege, then my plan today is to inspire more women to grab hold of the gaze. [v]

In field settings, decision making and problem solving are usually blended. Typically, I am not just trying to select between the options; I am also learning about the situation, finding gaps in all the options, discovering ways to combine courses of action, and inventing new courses of action.
 

...compared  to  substantive  trade  secret  law,  [criminal trade secret]  privilege  overprotects  intellectual  property.  Trade  secret  law  protects  secret  information from  “misappropriation,”  meaning  improper  use  or  acquisition. Individuals  who  assert  the  privilege—in  both  civil  and  criminal  cases—already  enjoy  the  standard  ex  post  remedies  that  trade  secret  law  affords  for  misappropriation.  Layering  on  a  privilege  thus  grants  “protection  plus.” 

In  addition,  the  privilege  creates  an  ex  ante  injunction  on  the  use  of  trade  secret  information   without   any   showing   of   actual,   threatened,   or   inevitable   misappropriation—an    extreme    protection    that    is    not    available    under    substantive  trade  secret  law.  Moreover,  the  underlying  theoretical  rationales for   the   existence   of   trade   secret   law—that   it   encourages   innovation   and promotes fair business practices—can’t justify a privilege that overwhelmingly shields  trade  secrets  from  people  who  will  most  likely  never  be  business competitors.

Perhaps the biggest hallmark of epistemic cronyism is exhibiting strong emotions, as when we feel proud of a belief, anguish over changing our minds, or anger at being challenged or criticized. These emotions have no business being within 1000ft of a meritocratic belief system — but of course they make perfect sense as part of a crony belief system, where cronies need special protection in order to survive the natural pressures of a meritocracy.

What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young. Now, where are these imminent dangers? There is a sentiment arising...against passion of all sorts; unnecessary things now, and things that make us uncomfortable, savage survivals, discords in a refined and pleasant life.