I’m having trouble understanding this post. Maybe because I don’t have a good sense of what ‘being compromised’ means, perhaps due to not being a native English speaker. I guess it’s similar to ‘being cancelled’? (Which to be fair isn’t a clearly defined term either).
Also, just as Habryka pointed out, the examples leave me a bit confused about the message of the post. While clearly not your intention, parts of the post read as “Don’t feel bad about making mistakes, some horrible organisations/people have made mistakes too!”. I guess I just don’t understand how some of the examples contribute to the point you want to make with this post.
Yeah it’s not fully analysed. See thesecomments for the point.
The first list of examples is to show that universal shame is a common feature of ideologies (descriptive).
The second list of examples is to show that most very well-regarded things are nonetheless extremely compromised, in a bid to shift your reference class, in a bid to get you to not attack yourself excessively, in a bid to prevent unhelpful pain and overreaction.
I’m having trouble understanding this post. Maybe because I don’t have a good sense of what ‘being compromised’ means, perhaps due to not being a native English speaker. I guess it’s similar to ‘being cancelled’? (Which to be fair isn’t a clearly defined term either).
Also, just as Habryka pointed out, the examples leave me a bit confused about the message of the post. While clearly not your intention, parts of the post read as “Don’t feel bad about making mistakes, some horrible organisations/people have made mistakes too!”. I guess I just don’t understand how some of the examples contribute to the point you want to make with this post.
Yeah it’s not fully analysed. See these comments for the point.
The first list of examples is to show that universal shame is a common feature of ideologies (descriptive).
The second list of examples is to show that most very well-regarded things are nonetheless extremely compromised, in a bid to shift your reference class, in a bid to get you to not attack yourself excessively, in a bid to prevent unhelpful pain and overreaction.
The first comment you linked makes things a lot clearer, thanks. But I’m still curious how exactly you define “being compromised”.
Just shameable.
That makes things even clearer, thank you!
Maybe people just aren’t expecting emotional concerns to be the point of a Forum article? In which case I broke kayfabe, pardon.