WE AREN’T JUST AGREEING TO DISAGREE. by Eli Harman I don’t agree with your assum

WE AREN’T JUST AGREEING TO DISAGREE.

by Eli Harman

I don’t agree with your assumptions. I don’t agree with your reasoning. I don’t agree with your conclusions. I don’t agree with what you think you know. I don’t agree with how you think you know it. I don’t agree that what you say you think is even what you think. I don’t agree that reality is what you think it is. I don’t agree that the facts are what you say they are. I don’t agree that your theories explain the facts. I don’t agree with your values. I don’t agree with your principles. I don’t agree with your preferences. I don’t agree with your ideals. I don’t agree with your aims. I don’t agree with your means. I don’t agree with your aesthetics. I don’t agree with what you think is beautiful. I don’t agree with what you think is inspiring. I don’t agree with what you think is good. I don’t agree with what you think is true. We have no common ground to build upon, and no common ground to build towards. Everything you say is worthless to me, and everything you do is worthless to me, and everything you are is just as worthless to me.

–“Therefore I do not reason with you, but prosecute.”—Simon Ström