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" 🤣
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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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Used to get quite a few random invites of this sort from trad media back then, which would break down on discussing details. Only the Atlantic went somewhere thanks to
In general, the cultural chasm between blog-native and old media is too vast to bridge.


