On Masks

A man cannot wear a mask.

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

I, Jeremy Welch, have never, will never and cannot wear a mask.

Anyone speaking or acting for me, Jeremy Welch, will always identify themselves and explicitly state that they are acting on behalf of me, Jeremy Welch.

It is only by men speaking openly 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, some contemporary authors have begun to attribute new sayings to old authors as a method of avoiding accountability (and they use Leo Strauss’s writings as a justification for this approach).

The only way out of the silicon and Straussian-trap 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