1/ Manifesto: beliefs you treat as self-evident, and ideally bury in subconscious as habits of mind.
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2/ Antimanifesto: contradictions that have your active attention, that you steer by.
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3/ Eg manifesto item: "...[G]lobal civilization faces a new breed of cataclysm." (from #accelerate criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/acc)
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4/ Example antimanifesto item: "Truth vs happiness" from my philosopher's abacus:
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5/ Manifestos are way more popular than antimanifestos. Mine is in fact the only antimanifesto I know of.
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6/ Good reason for this. If you act on the basis of certainty to seek more certainty, manifestos speed you up, antimanifestos slow you down.
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7/ On the other hand, if you act on the basis of doubt to seek out greater doubts, antimanifestos speed you up, manifestos slow you down.
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8/ When driven by a manifesto, you try to converge to a fully certain utopia, when driven by an antimanifesto, you diverge into a mystery
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9/ A manifesto defines a finite game by inducing rules, an antimanifesto characterizes an infinite game like a fingerprint
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11/ Before now, I hadn't connected my antipathy to manifestos to my preference for divergent exploration. They are 2 sides of the same coin.
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12/ Ms and AMs can co-exist and productively interact, but to seek synthesis is actually to try and colonize antimanifestos with manifestos
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Elements of each impulse can exist in, if not drive, either format.

