You think too highly of yourself.
Perhaps I'm showing a little bit too much over confidence in terms of politics that is true. Now, what would you do if you knew you had more understanding on a subject that is fundamental to the debate you are interacting with? In a normal space.. there is no reason to "show off" but in a political space and a place of intense debate? Well things would be different.
1. I believe that I have two major reason to be over-confident on this forum :
- One Piece and storytelling - As I analyzed it for years narratively for professionnal reasons - I know for a fact that my understanding (=/= knowledge) is SOLID.
- Politics and materialism - As I made a work of deradicalization and intense politicization - I know from experience that everything on my rights is politically and ethically wrong.
Outside of these two big subjects, I'm just a random with very little knowledge and understanding. Now, this forum is built on the first and we are currently interacting in a space where the second is omnipresent.
2. On top of that, I have experienced that on BOTH subjects, a major part of the forum is lost or lacks basic media literacy and ethics. (
And I include myself, especially on the second subject at the beginning of my arrival here)
3. This forum is conflict/toxicity oriented. People are not asking for discussion, they are here to push their agenda. I also include myself.
In fine, I understand completely that, from your perspective, you might think that I'm thinking to highly of myself. I'm the most vocal and present on this thread. This presence associated to the necessity to overshadow the agenda seeker and toxicity pushes my to be overcondident and you might think that I believe I know everything
All I can tell you is that it is an illusion.
I don't know everything and in most spaces I interact with, I'm silent, perhaps too much sometimes as I feel like I'm always riddled with biases that prevent me from fully understanding complex subjects.
So I listen A LOT.
But not here. Here, it's my confort zone. As long as I will be the most ideologically radical leftist on this thread, this over confidence will stay up because... well for once it's absolutely needed, and second because I know that no one my political or praxis errors based on radical leftism, materialism, anti-imperialism and intersectionnality.
It's not the belief that I'm better in every way. It's the confidence in my current knowledge on these specifics.
Don't get me wrong. It is completely possible for a more radical materialist leftist to appear and point out just how bad my praxis here is in trying to convince you. I have a lot of blind spot people could attack me from a materialist pov. But I'm still waiting for this to happen. When it happens, if it happens, you will see the silent part of me. I will probably stop talking all-together and shift from trying to give politicizing keyh to trying to learn.
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If you want to humble me on One Piece, you can do something very simple : Bring Melontee or Morj on this forum. I believe these are the only two people in the community now that could actually teach me something about the structure of this story.
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If you want to humble me on Politics, finds someone with a better understanding of materialism, antiimperialism, intersectionnality, real life activism and with a far better praxis than mine here. It's completely possible.
The structure of this forum, the way people interact and the necessity to stop the far rightists propaganda here will only reenforce the need for that overconfidence. You don't feel that need because you can't see my perspective and the danger that looms or the potential and could bloom. To me, it's everywhere.
If I didn't feel that need to impose a form of political presence, I would be kinder, but this is as much as I can dial it down right now with this system.
I can tap tap now
And I want to add and reenforce the idea that
understanding =/= knowledge. My goal is never to hurt people here. I seek only to share what I know. And perhaps, I could be less over-imposing about it, this is what I've been trying to do these last two weeks and why I'm asking a lot of questions now. But I can't delete an understanding... it's just not possible
