When I find substantive disagreement I've learned that my own perspective might have missed something important. This either helps me improve my own reasoning or (rarely) it will persuade me to change my mind. Being persuadable is a very important aspect of being "awakened" imo.
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For example: "how should I vote?" "who should I donate money to?" "who should I be reading?" "which communities should I attempt to engage with?" "how should I handle interpersonal interactions with people who disagree with me?" etc.
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A lot of this is just filling in the details of the usual path work stuff. Right View. Right Speech. Right action. (contemplated using correct instead of right due to context, but the traditional translation is fine)
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The polarization in society has become a major obstacle to effective communication about topics that deserve a language with sufficient nuance to reflect the underlying reality. I find it very hard to know how to discuss my politics with people. I have no label and no tribe.
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I feel like I've personally innovated quite a bit, finding a middle path between idealist progressivism and realist conservatism. It works for me, even though it's very hard to communicate with people stuck in mainstream discourse boundaries.
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I'm not a centrist though. I'm a conservative progressive. That's not a contradiction.
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