On Masks

A man cannot wear a mask.

A man can speak on behalf of another man or woman explicitly, while sharing his own being as vouching for the word of another.

I’ve never worn a mask and never will.

Anyone speaking or acting for me, will always identify themselves and explicitly state that they are acting on behalf of me, Jeremy Welch. It is only by doing so that a chain of human accountability and honor can be maintained, both of which are especially fragile in an age of the worldwide web and synthetic cloud-based, LLM-based repeater fake intelligences.

Historically, in order to communicate some truths it seems that some authors needed to wear masks to avoid immediate violence looming right outside their door in the form of witchhunts for even the slightest heresy from common dogma. But in our age, especially keeping in mind the Straussian framework, some contemporary authors have begun to attribute new sayings to old authors as a method of avoiding accountability.

The only way out of the silicon and Strauss induced haze is to speak and write openly and act daily in alignment, while constantly correcting in the open as much as possible when misalignments occur.

My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
Job 33:3