Can we talk?

"Can we talk?"

No, we can't.

"That's unfortunate, from a communication point of view."

You might reveal wrong positionality. Or say something triggering. You might cause harm (meaning: harm me).

"Might I? Powerful me! Is a positionality the same as a position?"

No. It's obviously got three more syllables' worth of dimensionality.

"Oh. I still don't see why we can't talk."

Okay, let me itemize the reasons. Check off those that apply:

    fake news (everything I don't believe in)

    wrongthought (yours)

    disfavoured opinion

    microaggression (yours)

    you might use non-correct neopronominalism

"Uh ... no, that doesn't sound like a thing I would use in any form."

You see? Bullying. And you're meritocracy-adjacent, which is harmful.

"No, I'm reality-adjacent, and I'm meritocracy-immersed. Sorry about that. But your attitude is negative. Couldn't we just get along?"

Well no ... add that to the list of reasons not to: toxic positivity. 

 

I'm not sleeping, I'm revealing my peaceful positionality

A one-day stand -- Visiting the Museum of the De-platformed

The phrase "one night stand" originally referred to a one-night engagement by a performer at an entertainment venue. 

On another time-scale, fame seems to last but a single "day". The heyday of someone famous can vanish in a flash to be replaced by infamy when attitudes change --when different "influencers" do the influencing.

Distinguished people whose busts once stood in museums, or their statues in squares, are suddenly "cancelled". For them a city needs a new type of history museum that highlights the vanishing past: the Museum of the De-platformed.