In a Seinfeld episode where Costanza is dating a woman who looks like Jerry. He’s desperate for *any* narrative ground besides resemblance to Jerry, and lands on a shared tepid liking for chewing gum. “You don’t remind me of anybody and we love gum.” https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/99959a17-d42b-4222-b9d8-1d9706008e94 …
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It’s actually a good illustration of a heuristic for navigating FUD: go to the ground. FUD relies on subversive misuse of abstractions. Phenomenology to the rescue. Interesting thing is that the specifics don’t matter. Any solid anchor in unincorporated narrative ground works.
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