Speculation:
The idea of 'goals' was created as a mechanism of coercive control.
Static memes need(/are) mechanisms to disable rationality; 'goals' is one of those.
Ben's example gives credence to this. Sticky:https://twitter.com/ben_r_hoffman/status/1126888811768709121 …
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What's significant & symbolic for one person is arbitrary and coercive for another.https://twitter.com/vitabenes/status/1087325824469090304 …
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More to your point, pinning down someone else with goals is probably a mental shortcut. It's comforting to 'figure out' what a person wants. It resolves ambiguity. When you suddenly introduce a different goal of yours, it creates more dissonance and ambiguity.
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Ah, good point. This makes me wonder how coercion can work at all, given most people most of the time are (it turns out, contrary to intellectuals' conventional wisdom) benevolent and rational.
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if it would not make me appear conventional by reflexively assuming nonbenevolence i would be tempted to say you are making her point
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What's with that phrasing? why not speak in simple terms?
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