10/ The underlying drive of a manifesto is social connection. The underlying drive of an antimanifesto is individual curiosity.
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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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13/ Furiously resisting *attempts* at synthesis, however, turns an antimanifesto into a manifesto (*cough* libertarians *cough*)
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14/ To follow an antimanifesto is to accept both convergence and divergence w/o resistance, while noting that divergence prevails over time
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15/ To follow a manifesto on the other hand, you eventually have to actively resist divergence.
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16/ Poirot is an archetypal antimanifesto-ist. He only promises to uncover the truth, not to save people. Truth trumps social connection.
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17/ This is deep reason manifestos are explicit, but antimanifestos rarely are. Where truth prevails, divergence kills manifestos naturally
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18/ To force the convergence that a manifesto requires, you will eventually need to deny truths, even if you don't lie to yourself overtly.
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feels like this is the dialectic. manifesto^1 is thesis, anti-manifesto the recognition of conflict. Then new manifesto^2 synthesis
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I have a feeling that for half of the population, once you go antimanifesto, you can never go back, except ironically
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nuance can be hard. True. Or rather holding both conviction and doubt at the same time :-).
But it seems most human

