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Retweeting a self-cringe moment for visibility 😖 https://t.co/u86x349vKy

“That stuff was formative. That kindness [as I was] figuring myself out and orienting myself towards the kinds of things that I really liked while also burning off the parts of myself that I didn't like.” https://t.co/7713EyGL2l

“And that's okay because where you may see a 15 year old identifying as an anarcho-posadist monarch and think oh that's cringe, I see somebody who is at the very least attempting to engage with political philosophy, which is important.”

We all deserve an original relation with the universe. There is no obligation to read books and uncover via the form of past authors. (Though they can point in the right direction and dramatically speed things up.) https://t.co/QYB7yF3DUP

Rediscovering and repeating cringe that our ancestors had is not a failure of knowledge transmission. It is the work of doing, engaging, spreading. https://t.co/bjTSraZk5z

@Kirsten3531 @mechanicalmonk1 Ok Kirsten I’m going to be really honest This is one of the biggest insights I have discovered this year *Reinventing the wheel is very fucking useful to other people* In fact I would argue It’s the vast majority of being useful to other people