>>11933581And none of that science happened out of simple curiosity. (Again, literal autists aside.) There's no apolitical reason to attach your name to whatever insightful paper you've just published. You are motivated by things like prestige, which helps you build a network of people who respect your work and will be more open to your influence; or grant money, a negotiated exchange of your resources for another party's; or you're doing it to "contribute to the scientific community" a goal which feels purely altruistic from the inside but nonetheless signals your willingness to cooperate rather than defect. This is all politics.
There's simply no reason for language to exist at all except for politics. Speaking never accomplishes anything directly, it's always used in the service of some social goal. You state something useful, it's a sign that you're a good ally, you're building a coalition. Or you don't state something useful, but your tone carries a hidden payload for the listener, you are evaluating their social competence from their response.
(There's one exception to this rule about language, which is that written language acts as additional memory, which is extremely useful and not just for politics. But note that written language is an external invention, not part of your neural hardware.)
>>11933654>Are you retarded? Please go to to the retard den.But I am not retarded, anon. Or at least not retarded in that way. By "literally every" I meant literally every. Writing a black character and writing a white character are both political decisions.
