Yesterday I had one person say I'm too so pro-tech pro-capitalist and one person say I was trying to force a leftist ideology, and both were responding to A City on Mars. All I can say is I wish people would stop trying to find the hidden motive and just read the words as plainly written!
Why does everyone need to tie a little conspiracy bow on everything? Even if it's not strictly conspiracy theorizing, there's this deep thread now of "okay but the REAL trick is..." when the thing is that the topic is involved and complex and doesn't naturally map to a simplified ideology.
@ZachWeinersmith Same reason we need to define discrete species despite every living being in our world being its own unique combination of genetic goo.
@ZachWeinersmith I realize the implicit irony here, but I do wonder if this is partially compounded by the heavy influence twitter has had on discourse.
I don't mean twitter vs bluesky vs mastodon, I mean the advent of pity pointed minimal text statements for complicated thoughts, which is trickier than most think ('Didn't have time to write a short letter', etc).
I'm in no way saying this is the only contributing factor, but I can't help but wonder if it's part of the implicit expectation now
@Oggie I'm sympathetic to this, but my slightly nicer theory is that people have been saying this sort of thing forever - it's just it used to happen in private letters and conversations and not in the equivalent of public bulletin boards.
@ZachWeinersmith You answered your own question, sir. People want a "simplified" answer, precisely because the real one is so complicated and difficult.
@ZachWeinersmith Come on now, we all know you are just a front for Big Martian and their attempts to keep humans stuck on Earth so they can steal all the space gold!
@ZachWeinersmith I once heard of a heuristic judges use to award damage amounts in lawsuits: if both sides are unhappy, then they might have arrived at a fair assessment
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