@Jameson Lopp Thank you for your recent efforts to highlight some of the more interesting/difficult aspects surrounding freedom of speech. This is a great altruistic use of your popularity and intellect in my opinion although I’m sure it has its downsides for you on occasion. I agree that the trend is quite solidly and disturbingly in the direction of sacrificing freedom of speech so as to protect the delicate feelings of the majority. This is the vehicle that has allowed the ruling class to create all the tools they could ever want to silence dissent. For this reason, it is very important to me to see difficult conversations like the ones you started here on #nostr. In fact, if I’m not getting offended on #nostr, I’ll probably stop using it. I’ll take the occasional offensive image that I have to mute/ignore or crazy person rambling on about some nonsense that is real only to them (like most of my own posts), in order to have some sense that censorship doesn’t yet exist here. Thanks again. #grownostr #thinkdangerously #getoffended

We have become a species of dreamers and simpleton romantics who are largely unable to see the world and the state of humanity for the dystopian hellscape that it really is. For most of my life, I have been puzzled by how most people can look upon their own lives and the lives of others and say “yeah, I want more of this - I’m going to have kids!”. But it makes perfect sense from an evolutionary perspective. Most of those humans who had the capacity for introspective thought and the ability to develop realistic perspectives have long since died off. They saw the world as an overpopulated shithole and said “fuck this”. All that remains now (save a few genetic anomalies like myself) are the mindless dreamers. I’ll be happy to join my kind soon enough. #grownostr #thinkdangerously #childfree