Interesting how many thought-stopper words (including positive self-descriptors) are also individual labels. You tend to stop thinking where you judge a person incapable of changing. Often (always?) this is true *in juxtaposition* with a way the judger is incapable of changing
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Basically all ideological slurs work this way.
Political change occurs in pairs, where 2 people remove a pair of labels, which allows them to get entangled as humans.
Not going to list examples, but think of quartets of related words on a 2x2: yin vs Yang, positive vs negative
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Which is another way of saying they become capable of seeking a truth together. Which requires indefinitely extended mutual thought. Which is “growing together” (in-truth?).
Truths generally require an infinite pursuit. Only falsehoods can be disposed off in finite time/steps.
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"nytimes opinion columnist" is the thought-stopper term du jour
wonder what the exact opposite is? hmm "solipsistic wiki-mind-palace builder" 🤣
an nyt op-ed by vgr is the funniest idea. what would you actually write if you somehow had to?
(Intrusive: As vgr awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a nyt opinion columnist.)
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way back in the day, like 2012 or so, I was actually invited to contribute a guest op-ed, and I wrote up a draft something, which they rejected for being too tech-positive 🤣
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