It's mildly depressing to have new ideas for blog posts to express so eloquently my keen insights, only to realize that I've already made that point in one of the many blog posts I've made starting in early 2019. Of course not too many people have read those blog posts, but then again not many will read new ones either.
One reason to be discouraged is that despite how keen my insights may be, and how clearly I am right, the world has rarely come around to my point of view. Maybe, if we're lucky (knock on wood) it will come around to a majority view that Donald Trump is a disaster, and of a sufficient majority that Democrats will control House, Senate, and Presidency. Yet even that will not usher in some golden age.
Another reason to be discouraged is that it shows my declining memory. Perhaps it is not pathological; perhaps it is common in people my age, but I still don't like it. I don't like it at all. It's nice to be able to remember what you've written. There is of course the common experience in dealing with the elderly that they will tell you the same story over and over. I cringe at the possibility that I might become one of those people. It give me some inclination to just keep quiet more often. That seems unfortunate too.
So in the service of not re-inventing the wheel, but distinguish which inventions are wheels and which are lava lamps, I can think of some old posts I think are really important in my view of the world, and give some links to them here:
Polling vs Interrupts on unusual genders
Social mobility isn't important
The cosmic subtraction problem (life and death).
Evolution as the key to understanding
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