Can be helpful proxies for sure, to situate the context someone might be seeing things from. And perhaps raise Qs re: the 'validity' of their sources/interpretation. But I feel like we too often 'dismiss' w/out trying to understand the others' perspective first. We assume.
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Replying to @magghu @imhinesmi
I think it's helpful to notice our allergies and see that the perspective we're coming from is also a lens of sorts. How might we see the truth in each others' worldviews? I think
@SarahAMcManus and@cognazor might call this#MemeticMediation?
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Replying to @magghu @imhinesmi and
That said it takes two to tango and if the other is not willing to be charitable with your views and seek to understand then, sometimes not worth your time/energy
It's also a privilege to discuss topics 'intellectually' that may be personally truamatising.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
im familiar with memetic mediation and its certainly good, and i do think people should try to expose themselves to a wide variety of viewpoints etc but im also curious about good ways to increase signal:noise ratio a good set of antibodies will cut through most of the noise
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the point of a good set of antibodies is not so much to avoid viewpoints as it is to avoid people who you wont be able to have productive convos with
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The lens I would offer here, is to bring in -- what is the purpose of each specific conversation / interaction? Trying to solve this question of "what one ought to do" in a general / "objective" / "universal" case will be more difficult than the specific - or even intractable.
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Replying to @SarahAMcManus @imhinesmi and
If you're considering whether or not to continue interacting with someone, and you feel your epistemic allergies activating -- what's the context of this scene? Do you have an ongoing relationship with them? Do y'all value that? Do you have a sense of shared purpose?
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Replying to @SarahAMcManus @imhinesmi and
How well-resourced are you, in that moment? (In terms of time, emotional resilience, attention, etc.) Sometimes you care deeply about something, but you don't have the resources to care for it. Sometimes, you decide it's not actually worth the bet, to engage further.
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Replying to @SarahAMcManus @imhinesmi and
And sometimes, you might decide -- "Hmm... I do actually care about this relationship, this conversation, and it makes sense for me to be with my allergy / aversion, rather than acting from it. It's information, and I don't have to be subject to it."
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Replying to @SarahAMcManus @imhinesmi and
In that case, the toolsets of memetic mediation might come in handy, as well as practices for working with emotional activation individually. You might even be able to create enough same-sidedness & spaciousness to reveal what was activating your allergies, & work through that
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very well articulated ty
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