Turn your Arguments into Tangible Things

Sean McClure
1 min readSep 28, 2024

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Turn your arguments into tangible things, rather than letting them dissipate into the void of back-and-forth debate.

Genuine debate is mostly a myth. Very few argue to seek truth, admit their fallacies, or do anything other than try to win.

But if you create something; an essay, a book, a speech, a product, a song, an episode, a film, a community project, no-carb cupcake recipe, then you have made something undeniable.

Someone wants your opinion, your philosophy, your wrath; you point to it. A high yielding construct that keeps paying dividends. Always there as a manifest, articulated argument.

Back-and-forth arguing is a massive waste of potential. We do not live in a society whose values make such an activity worthwhile. Wish we did. We do not.

Transmute and galvanize your most important arguments into things. Besides, you’ll be able to keep arguing long after you’re gone.

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Sean McClure

Independent Scholar; Author of Discovered, Not Designed; Ph.D. Computational Chem; Builder of things; I study and write about science, philosophy, complexity.