@chaosprime Trying to make sense of this. Society IS people. How do you separate them? Am I missing some context?
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@StevenBrust It's like, are you concerned about the health of your liver, or the health of the individual cells in your liver? -
@StevenBrust It's natural to be concerned about the former. Which is why I find it necessary to reject that viewpoint explicitly in this. -
@chaosprime We may need to save this for in-person, because I'm still not getting it. -
@StevenBrust Maybe? The point is that focusing on the large-scale abstraction can lead to failures in handling the small-scale abstraction. -
@StevenBrust We've seen plenty of people earnestly trying to make the big system work and being happy to see it roll over the small systems. -
@chaosprime I would argue that in those cases the failure with the small systems points out a flaw in understanding the large system. -
@StevenBrust It does. And sometimes those flaws arise because the large system regarded as a whole is regarded as the only important thing. - 3 more replies
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@chaosprime I don't care if people live in it, but it matters that they rely on it in oh so many different ways ...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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