I guess I feel like… you have to have some sense of, you know, what matters to you? What you give a shit about? And it has to be at least a little disentangled from how you think the world actually is. Right, like, you have to be able to say “I wish X was so” even if X is not so. Otherwise how do you direct your actions, how do you know what you’re shooting for. Even if you don’t buy the is-ought distinction, your sense of ought can’t be so tied up in your sense of is that “it is not so” is a sufficient counterargument to “it should be so”. Because then how can you even think! How can you even choose actions!
And I made this point, basically, in that old post of mine from 2021 which was in some sense the start of my Posting career in earnest. I made the point about politics in specific but it’s more general than that. That was a good post.