Unseen University Hex

Ronnie Chieng gives a speech to Harvard Grads.

The creating is the fun part.

Hi brain, you obstinate fucker. I drank the clear splashy stuff. I ate the green things. I went under that bright fucker up there. I did the thing with the moving and sweating and whatnot. Now make the happy chemical, you lump of fuck.

“No. Tell me something to worry me. Worry me.”

I mention how far a star can fall. Louis CK, for instance, who went from most popular comedian in America to pariah, almost overnight.

“The thing about this is… here’s the thing, right? Just go with me. Let’s say we’re talking about champion knitters, and you know, for the knitter, it’s the world knitting finals coming up. Now, he hasn’t dropped a stitch. And then, all of a sudden, he takes his d--- out in front of the other knitters, you know.”

The slightest of pauses.

“How do you think that’s gonna play out for his career?”

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

Anthropologists observe societies, writing about them dispassionately and adopting a non-interference, non-judgement policy. At some point a group of academics decided they wanted to include moral discussions (particularly about their own society), on how things come to be a certain way, and how they could develop differently. Thus Sociology was born. Anthropology still exists, Sociology eclipsed it, it didn't kill it. They're aspects of each other, not in competition. This is the censorship debate in a nutshell. A community picks a side, and the other side is free to branch off. The choices here are: Comics can be anything, even 3D printed gun files, or porn! No limits! We're all here to just observe. Or; we need to advocate some limits, some values. Some values are better for the world, and some are worse. I believe the no-limits crowd have the less considered standpoint. No group is free from having standards and values. We already moderate, it's the nature of social groups with implicit rules and *ideals*. In my opinion, we're here to do more than just observe the chaos. We adopt a stance. Improving the world as best we can. So we must decide what improves it, and what doesn't. I don't think totally uncensored free speech improves the world. It still imposes a set of values that impact the world - even if advocates pretend that no choice has been made.

This author is still alive and using every dollar you give them to actively harm people.

By all means, continue to enjoy those DVDs you already own. Those dollars are spent and gone. Nothing you can do about those.

But every new dollar you give them is actively harming people.

You are actively harming people.

you write like there is a medicine that you're supposed to be taking that you're not taking