If someone runs a 100m dash in 13 seconds, does that mean you should hate yourself for running a 100m dash in 40 seconds? If someone publishes a paper about a new form of group theory, does that mean you should hate yourself for struggling with algebra? Then why are you upset when someone can enjoy themself using only woke games?
You’ve got to learn to be okay with being morally imperfect, just like you already know how to be okay with being physically and intellectually imperfect. It is fine to choose to perpetuate certain harmful structures even as you’re trying to abolish them. We’re stuck in a quagmire, every move we make is going to make something worse. But if we are clever, we can do more harm than good by the end of it.
Guilt is bullshit. Doing harm being bad or evil is bullshit. That’s what “no ethical consumption under capitalism” means; stop trying to pursue an impossible ideal of moral purity. Try to do better, but don’t burn yourself out. Take breaks. Use milk in pancakes. Play a colonialist board game. You’re still running laps around everyone on the couch.
But none of that means cows aren’t getting sexually and physically violated to get you that milk. None of that means colonialist media isn’t rewiring your brain to think with colonial logic. None of that means we shouldn’t celebrate people who have managed to rid themselves of these trappings and made a good life for themselves without them.
It’s true that there are a lot of people who do demand moral excellence from you, but fuck them. Do what you need to do to prevent their bad sportsmanship from souring you on your journey.
hm? oh nonono im not upset with it, it just really triggered me for some reason… i got into a topic which doesnt have much to do with the actual post content, that was my bad.
also imma assume u meant “we can do more good than harm by the end of it”, and if not im not sure i understand how that is being clever.
I read ur whole comment, it was a fun read, i liked it. I really am clinging to that ideal version myself that cant exist… It’s about balance iguess…
If someone runs a 100m dash in 13 seconds, does that mean you should hate yourself for running a 100m dash in 40 seconds? If someone publishes a paper about a new form of group theory, does that mean you should hate yourself for struggling with algebra? Then why are you upset when someone can enjoy themself using only woke games?
You’ve got to learn to be okay with being morally imperfect, just like you already know how to be okay with being physically and intellectually imperfect. It is fine to choose to perpetuate certain harmful structures even as you’re trying to abolish them. We’re stuck in a quagmire, every move we make is going to make something worse. But if we are clever, we can do more harm than good by the end of it.
Guilt is bullshit. Doing harm being bad or evil is bullshit. That’s what “no ethical consumption under capitalism” means; stop trying to pursue an impossible ideal of moral purity. Try to do better, but don’t burn yourself out. Take breaks. Use milk in pancakes. Play a colonialist board game. You’re still running laps around everyone on the couch.
But none of that means cows aren’t getting sexually and physically violated to get you that milk. None of that means colonialist media isn’t rewiring your brain to think with colonial logic. None of that means we shouldn’t celebrate people who have managed to rid themselves of these trappings and made a good life for themselves without them.
It’s true that there are a lot of people who do demand moral excellence from you, but fuck them. Do what you need to do to prevent their bad sportsmanship from souring you on your journey.
hm? oh nonono im not upset with it, it just really triggered me for some reason… i got into a topic which doesnt have much to do with the actual post content, that was my bad. also imma assume u meant “we can do more good than harm by the end of it”, and if not im not sure i understand how that is being clever.
I read ur whole comment, it was a fun read, i liked it. I really am clinging to that ideal version myself that cant exist… It’s about balance iguess…