“Willing to be misunderstood” is a social exit option that activates before “agree to disagree” or “disagree but commit”
People don’t use it enough out of misguided politeness. Only worth going past if being misunderstood creates danger, or deep relationships are at risk.
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I think you might enjoy trying to misunderstand a little Rabbi Nachman. "The messiah will come when all ideas are mutually comprehensible." (The metaphoric rebuilding of the tower of Babel).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachman_o
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The tower gets built without the mutual intelligibility being achieved. No Nimrodian ambition necessary.
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The Nachman project is a stance of willful openness beyond rational possibility. Enlightenment cubed. I Juxtapose it with the Daoist notion of embracing "not-knowing," ideal darkness. Then settle on not-not-knowing. "Exiting at birth, entering at death."--Laozi

