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calimac ([personal profile] calimac) wrote in [personal profile] andrewducker 2021-01-04 05:50 pm (UTC)

Chuck Wendig on self-reliance is particularly impressive. I like that he includes my stage of "guide their hand" in teaching, and that his classic example of bad teaching is, yep, "throw them in a pond." Also note "this masculine tough guy image that taught men they must do everything themselves." That reminds me of a small lump in a Donald Westlake where a rural fireman muses that "cause of fire" can often be put down as "farmer." Your farmer does everything himself: he's his own electrician, and he's not a good electrician, and same goes for everything else.

On the other hand David Allen Green saying "The United Kingdom in its modern form as a collection of four nation states has only existed since 1922" is epically disingenuous.

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