It's late, and I don't have the energy to engage fully as I'd hope to in my better life, but I have to admit that I'm hugely disappointed in the substance of your comment. I'm sure you're a kind person, but this comment feels very callous to my sensibilities. I mean, I understand NOT understanding, but I fail to understand the confidence exhibited here. "readers will be annoyed"? What readers? What sort?
All I can assume is that maybe you and I have slightly different neurotypes, and that for you, somehow a factual sense of "truth" of the world is more urgent to represent than a harmless distortion in the name of unrealized justice. It feels like you're saying we shouldn't pre-emptively apply reality distortion fields on the way to a more just world. Because reasons. Sorry, I'm being testy, and I shouldn't be. I retract. Rather, it feels like you're saying we shouldn't because it might annoy neurotypes who are annoyed by it.
I should add that the sort of analytical neurotype who would be annoyed, is _actually_ having a shining moment of power through accessible tech knowledge, and so that makes it even more disappointing that this is how people with this neurotype are processing the world.
I'm not trying to come across as insulting. I'm just sad and frustrated about your views. You are entitled to have them, and I am entitled to be sad about that.
All I can assume is that maybe you and I have slightly different neurotypes, and that for you, somehow a factual sense of "truth" of the world is more urgent to represent than a harmless distortion in the name of unrealized justice. It feels like you're saying we shouldn't pre-emptively apply reality distortion fields on the way to a more just world. Because reasons. Sorry, I'm being testy, and I shouldn't be. I retract. Rather, it feels like you're saying we shouldn't because it might annoy neurotypes who are annoyed by it.
I should add that the sort of analytical neurotype who would be annoyed, is _actually_ having a shining moment of power through accessible tech knowledge, and so that makes it even more disappointing that this is how people with this neurotype are processing the world.
I'm not trying to come across as insulting. I'm just sad and frustrated about your views. You are entitled to have them, and I am entitled to be sad about that.