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Maijs 19., 2020
16:27
I thought if I was just overwhelmingly right enough, people would
listen. If I humiliated my opponent, they would have to admit I was
right and they were wrong. I’ve even said in interviews that the goal of
my first book was to rip back the curtain on how media really works so
people could not turn away. But guess what? A lot of people still did.
Of course they did. I was right, but I was also being an asshole.
Indeed, most of the writing that I look back on and regret is characterized by a similar tone that has way too much superiority and certainty and not nearly enough intellectual humility or empathy. It’s something I am guilty of in writing since and will be guilty of again—because it’s so much easier to be certain and clever than it is to be nuanced and nice.
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Reason is easy. Being clever is easy. Humiliating someone in the wrong is easy too. But putting yourself in their shoes, kindly nudging them to where they need to be, understanding that they have emotional and irrational beliefs just like you have emotional and irrational beliefs—that’s all much harder. So is not writing off other people. So is spending time working on the plank in your own eye than the splinter in theirs. We know we wouldn’t respond to someone talking to us that way, but we seem to think it’s okay to do it to other people. |
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