1/ People believe the things they do for a variety of subjective and biographical reasons. But, even if someone's particular, long-established, and durable belief is repugnant, it does not necessarily mean that person is repugnant, too. And they're certainly not irredeemable.
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6/ And, I don't want to replicate it -- I want to leave this world having good reason to believe I made it a better place! And, at this point that means recognizing how neither crude social hammers or advanced cybernetic systems are sufficient.
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7/ Of course, technology creates shocks that change the world. Obvious ones that produce waves so big it's impossible to see them as anything but singular cause. But people matter, too.
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8/ And, at least for someone *in my position*, I think helping and inviting people to change -- people who I do often viscerally hate because of my informed and experiential expectations about how they would act -- isn't something I can neglect. Obviously, it's hard.
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9/ Animosity over abstractions is partly social defense. Our brains don't really allow us to empathize without concomitant changes to our beliefs. Or at least the risk of it. So we reject them, what they believe, and correlates to who they are en masse for fear of contamination.
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10/ But, the limit of that behavior is what we're rapidly approaching. Beliefs and trust easily partitioned by accessible stereotypes coupled with socio-political processes that make reconciliation increasingly unlikely and, with more time, intractable by any palatable means.
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11/ Long story short: - Mind your allies; - Attend to pressing threats; - But, don't forget to build *some* bridges, too.
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