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dogpuppy

Back on here after years. Who is even tumbling these days?

my advice is that if you start viewing random people on the internet (or, to be honest, quite literally anyone) as some kind of distant towering intellectual or moral icons and view them as so obviously more knowledgable & capable of analysing things than you are to the point where you begin to attribute that arrogance to them, and allow your own feelings of intellectual insecurity to become simmering anger and resentment because you think they must want you to feel inferior—

I suggest taking a break from political engagement and reading on tumblr (/twitter &c.) and do your own reading and research for a time. go through your reading list. find a small subtopic that you’re interested in—something that you can be reasonably well-informed about within a day or two—and then learn about that. think about whether you agree with what other people say about the topic and, if not, why not. stretch your analytical muscles.

you feeling like you owe your attention, engagement, and learning to a specific set of people on tumblr or anywhere else is both to your detriment and their’s. I promise you no Blogger or Poaster who isn’t specifically, manipulatively trying to build up a cult of personality around themselves wants you to feel that way. it just makes everything awkward for everyone.

and if this doesn't apply to you, then great! keep doing what you're doing!

totodaisle

when Mao said no investigation no right to speak 🤐

gothhabiba

my advice is that if you start viewing random people on the internet (or, to be honest, quite literally anyone) as some kind of distant towering intellectual or moral icons and view them as so obviously more knowledgable & capable of analysing things than you are to the point where you begin to attribute that arrogance to them, and allow your own feelings of intellectual insecurity to become simmering anger and resentment because you think they must want you to feel inferior—

I suggest taking a break from political engagement and reading on tumblr (/twitter &c.) and do your own reading and research for a time. go through your reading list. find a small subtopic that you’re interested in—something that you can be reasonably well-informed about within a day or two—and then learn about that. think about whether you agree with what other people say about the topic and, if not, why not. stretch your analytical muscles.

you feeling like you owe your attention, engagement, and learning to a specific set of people on tumblr or anywhere else is both to your detriment and their’s. I promise you no Blogger or Poaster who isn’t specifically, manipulatively trying to build up a cult of personality around themselves wants you to feel that way. it just makes everything awkward for everyone.

and if this doesn't apply to you, then great! keep doing what you're doing!