A basic bad pattern is thinking because you made a map, you own the territory
An even worse pattern is thinking because you talk loudest about your map, nobody else has maps at all or any awareness of the territory
Worst pattern of all is thinking your map created the territory
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Pluralism at core is the belief that in most domains of experience, other people are living, observing, thinking, and doing things too, and that the benefit of doubt for being aware/unaware/right/wrong about things should be more broadly dispersed than your instinct suggests
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“All your benefit of doubt is belong to us”
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Well, if you write fiction you create the map and that then fleshes out the territory.
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to quote 2007 Miss Teen USA pageant Kate Upton "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like
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seems like it's primal ape logic – "me here first. mine." – outmoded in new cerebral contexts.





