Fishing for thoughts 10/18/2020. Results:
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Metaphors are like wormholes. They can feel like magic, they can feel like cheating (within a race context), and they can feel invasive when they don't respect boundaries.
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The "Hand of God" in the anime Hikaru no Go is a metaphor. I think Enlightenment is the same. It's a metaphorical goal that's technically impossible and only serves to make a finite game into an infinite game.
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The "patriarchy" can feel overly controlling and invasive just like the father who insists on watching every time his daughter has sex to make sure she doesn't get raped. There's something "wrong" with it despite its virtuous intent.
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Homelessness can't be solved because homeless is the symptom of a broken society funnel that is letting too many people drop out of it. You can't fix the funnel because it's hard to debug and you can't truly "fix" homelessness except by alleviating the symptoms.
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"It's much easier to be on the verge of something than be it." - Markus Zusak
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Insisting on "rightness" can be a red flag. As the story of the blind men and the elephant shows, given something of large enough size, no one is "right". There isn't even a "less wrong." What's needed is more diversity of rightness.
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The only time "rightness" is a virtue is when boundaries are intentionally set. "I'm cutting off this line of thought because I don't want this to grow into an elephant but I see how it *can* grow into an elephant."
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The more useful something is the less abstract it is. Meaning that it will eventually be misunderstood of even become a rallying cry for the opposite of what is originally was intended.
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The more abstract something is the more timeless it is but it is also more obscure and less practically useful.
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Introducing a microphone instantly makes a meeting more serious. The microphone can be fake though. It can also be metaphorical. E.g. Loud Opinionated Guy is someone who always has the microphone. Meetings have a different feel when LOG is there.
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