Out of all the posts from the second-to last LW review, this one was the most influential: lesswrong.com/posts/rwjv8bZfSu

It carries the seed of a whole worldview, where _everything_ is just an act, where you have never *seen* your president or a transperson or a Nazi but are strongly against/in favour of it and that is **wrong**, you can't justify that, you've fallen victim to seeing things that aren't there. Not really direct realism, but anti-indirect realism.

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where everybody is just acting "as-if-X", without X all the way (this is kind of hard to get at)

Maybe it's what postmodernism is all about.

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