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[[Safe space]]s protect bad ideas. Good ideas don’t need safe spaces. Humans are [[antifragile]] things: we react well to ''little'' shocks: they toughen us up. insulating ourselves from them makes us yet more prone to them. It wasn’t {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} who first make this connection by the way, but {{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}.

Show me a system that ''isn’t'' unfair, arbitrary, capricious, conferring of authority on dubious men — you know, like academic tenure, or popularity contests for best professor at Wharton— and I’ll show you someone with a colossal lack of perspective.  

Stop fetishising minor grievance. Stop imaginatively conceptualising inequity and substituting it for worth. The world is ''comprised'' of inequity. The world is an [[emergent]] property of inequity. The converse of inequity is [[entropy]] — the oatmeal, tepid, limitless sludge of [[heat death]], to which the Universe is in any case progressing: for God’s sake don’t accelerate the journey. Rather than forlornly trying to re-render the irretrievably human as impossibly divine — rather than sanctifying the fragile, thereby making it ''more'' so, ''learn to be [[antifragile]]. Identify your own advantages and build on them. Build your own systems to dampen your own vulnerability, and those of people you care about.  

Be robust. Expect others to be too. Be spiky. Expect to be spiked. Answer back. Expect to be answered back to. Give [[banter]]. Take it. ''[[Call bullshit]]''. Expect to be called for it. Cast stones ''bearing in mind you are not without sin''.