It's wild that all the things I like also happen to be objectively the best things to like, and all the things I hate are objectively bad and awful

As everyone here has been saying, this is not an echo chamber

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

A normative claim cannot be derived from a descriptive claim. So you shouldn't do it.

wait, you actually acquire your knowledge of a subject by reading the relevant literature? that's cute. i derive all my knowledge of a subject from axiomatic first principles, which i've made up