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Contrary to your position, I find the discussion in former Culture War as well as here in The Motte quite valuable, it not only serves as an aggregator of things happening, but many of the phenomena described here helped me navigating real world situations regarding the Culture War like for instance those in my workplace that to my amazement started to ramp up in last year or two. Compared to that, many of my colleagues are like megafauna waiting to go extinct one way or another by stepping on some mine unknown to them. I do not share neither the loathing for denizens of this place, nor self-loathing you display here. And I definitely do not share your view on moral superiority of Scott Alexander and his "niceness" field.
Nevertheless this would probably only "devolve" into another discussion with a loser hater witch that you are no longer interested in. So I wish for you to enjoy whatever comes next. Take care.
I feel the same way. This place is valuable as a sort of internet speakeasy. I don’t think we’re the most rigorous debate society ever, though I think we do fairly well. But what we do well is allowing people to express views that cannot be safely expressed elsewhere. I find that by itself extremely valuable, as so much of society is ruled by nannies who want to silence anything that might hurt feelings. I find that to be extremely harmful because ideas suppressed don’t go away, and some of them might be true. I’d rather face such things head on.
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