here’s how i perceived it at the time: ‘scout mindset’ and ‘soldier mindset’ have particular meanings, so whether traditional soldiers are necessary for traditional scouts is a different topic. writing about them instead seemed ‘opportunistic’ in some sense, as if the text was using the terminological overlap to sneak through an argument about one as about the other.
I mean, no more than when Julia Galef wrote it? Have you read the book? There’s a long discussion of this metaphor and my analysis would totally fit there. Julia says there are important times and places for soldier mindset, but everyone seems to have forgotten this and just remembers scout mindset as “the good one”.
I mean, no more than when Julia Galef wrote it? Have you read the book? There’s a long discussion of this metaphor and my analysis would totally fit there. Julia says there are important times and places for soldier mindset, but everyone seems to have forgotten this and just remembers scout mindset as “the good one”.