Rationalists tend to take any criticism as Romantic anti-rationalism: “But emotions! But poetry! And what about healing crystals!” Whereas, we tech people are often annoying when we try to apply specific rational methods in cases where they don’t work. https://twitter.com/smoofra/status/993598161267539968 …
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Don’t forget to recognise the hierarchies at work in emotional-poetry-woo land. Eg: - Raw emotional sensation (Subjective) - Poetic communication from emotional experience to symbolic representation. (Ritual) - Crystals as sub-symbolic fantasy and non-rational play thing (Woo)
2:22 PM - 7 May 2018
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