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As a zoomer who has been sporadically lurking here for a year, my inhibition is too high to post in the Culture War thread. Since I've yet to commence higher education and have meaningful experience writing formal publications, I'm deeply insecure about my prose and lexicon. I am very much a generalist and a decent synthesizer who knows the synoptic framework of a vast array of fields without having fully narrowed down my niche. I would love to contribute more extensively, but can't be sure I will manage to do so without sounding like a flagrant sophist. Do I get lost or persist?
If you're actually worried about sounding like a flagrant sophist, that already makes you more self-aware than most of us. I'd be more concerned about the possible time you'd waste getting into pointless internet arguments when you could be devoting time to
developing yourselfchasing hedonistic pleasure as hard you can until the lights go out via the AI apocalypse, and also the risk of leaving a digital footprint that could allow some future authoritarian regime to track you down and execute you for wrongthink. It's too late for the rest of us, but you still might have a chance.More options
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I'm sure that most denizens of this website feel inferior to the huge-brained lawyers, programmers, and doctors. There is no need for you to expect yourself to be as ultra-cool as they are. Many of the comments that I myself make are just links to sources—not very big-brained, but not the most low-value stuff in the world, either.
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