Conversation

There’s a theory that the ability to have painful conversations in large groups is some sort of valuable and advanced skill that we must practice. I submit that this skill is psychological science fiction. No group larger than 5 people has ever had such a conversation.
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Above 5 people, any overture to start such a conversation, no matter how hard you try to be kind, will be an accusation of moral crimes leveled against an abstract archetype that will result in polarized derp based identifying with/against that archetype.
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Try not to identify strongly with any archetype of n > 5, even if you can’t escape the consequences of such identification on the part of others. Try to base any response on an identification of the counter-party with a < 5 group. Small enough to name all members.
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This thread prompted by yet another profoundly futile outrage cycle triggered by yet another attempt to spark such a conversation. I won’t link to it. But it’s not enough to starve such things of attention. You need alternative ways to talk about those things.
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