Does a fish have a face? https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-21-08:02.html … Notes on the experience of animals as ethically relevant, and the role of empathy in our ethical decision making, inspired by a randomly selected passage from "Finding Our Sea-Legs".
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Power, baby, power https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-22-08:31.html … A reading from Kathy Acker's in "I'm very into you" results in a meditation gender, attraction, and power, and finishes with a thought on how this ties in to the distressing prevalence of men with power being sexual predators.
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Proportionality and Identity https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-23-07:48.html … We use random selection of a jury to guarantee proportionality, but perhaps we should bias this to deliberately over-represent salient minority identities, giving the defence the right to decide what counts as salient.
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Democracy isn't just voting https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-24-09:38.html … We tend to think of voting as the central feature of democracy, but it should actually be the last step of it. A lot of why we have this misconception is the lack of small-group democracies in our lives. We should fix that.
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The conditional love of a small town https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-25-10:40.html … bell hooks describes small towns as places where the community is built on a love ethic, but this is very conditional on being a person that a small town can love. The rest flee to the cities to find others like us.
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Fixed and growth relationships https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-26-07:28.html … In "Rewriting the Rules" MJB talks about how we can fix ourselves into set images in a relationship. I contrast this with bell hooks's notion of love as growth, Schelling's theories of nuclear war, and Alexander Technique.
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78 Thinking Hats https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-26-12:07.html … A great deal of trash talk about Edward de Bono, thoughts on the use of tarot cards for randomised narrative construction and writing prompts, finishing with a short meditation on Focusing, Alexander Technique, exercise, and having fun.
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On fun while exercising, you might check out the book Exuberant Animal. Some of its specifics are a bit dopey, but the attitude and framework were a revelation for me.
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David Chapman Retweeted ryan
This also looks promising, but I haven’t had a chance to even skim it yet:https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1249497366354259968 …
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