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@westmajor fuckin around lookin like an actual business. 🇺🇸

From an article by Steve Schlafman.

Last summer I got to spend a couple days with Chris Williamson. He talked for a few hours non stop around a campfire one night and I saw him handily dismantle a climate change mercenary with incredible grace on another night. I told him one morning that he is worthy of one of the most honorable labels I have to give in that of “knowledge pig”. People who are knowledge pigs are my favorite people to hang with. They just love to learn and work very hard at it. He was just on Tucker Carlson and it was a great episode. I thought I’d share because I don’t think many people know how hard he works and I’m glad he’s representing some great points that were clearly well thought out. Check it out if you can.

You can tell if someone, including yourself, is solution oriented in a debate or if they need to be right by “how” they say things. If you are correct about something, righteousness subtly moves into self-righteousness. This can be undetectable and feel like a source of power that leads into a god complex over time. I love proverbs 28:1 and pursuing the wicked. But I don’t think you should derive pleasure or the feeling of power from that. Just relief that justice finds its balance. So it just seems that it’s always best to assume a beginner’s mind, ask more questions and focus on what the objective of any debate is. Solution oriented debates sound so different that it’s embarrassing when you recount times you were being self righteous. And needing power grab is a sign of weakness somewhere else in your life.