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“How do you get seven billion strangers to peacefully collaborate with one another? [...] All we have is conversation. And when conversation fails, all we have is violence.”
— @SamHarrisOrg on Under the Skin with @rustyrocketspic.twitter.com/hjDSajguXo
IMO, the most concerning forms of cultural interference (& organically arising cultural phenomena) kill good-faith conversation. And some of the most important work in social organizing & tech may — even somewhat subtly — fight back to make space for these conversations.
Which, to my ear, is saying we have voluntary cooperation on one hand and coercion on the other.
I was just in a country where I didn't speak the language, they didn't speak English and yet we cooperated without violence. I'd say invention of money is at least as big enabler of collaboration with strangers as communication and definitely bigger than violence.
Definitely don't want to dismiss the gravity of money as social tech, but there's a bunch of front-loaded communication that makes common transactions follow a simple script globally, & impromptu non-verbal conversations based on gesture schelling points are still super useful
@amraicoen Guck mal. Gutes Zitat.
Asimov said it best "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
It's the cherry picking that bugs me. Most of them are comfortable singling out the loudest, most immature actions on left as 'evidence' of a deep problem. Yet I'm fairly certain they see why doing the same with the worst atheists isn't a fair way to characterize the movement.
True. When we draw the lines between Authoritarian (as aspect of) Left on one side, and, on the other side, White Nationalism: I'm crystal clear on that distinction.
But I find it harder once we drill down into questions of strategy and my responsibility on left, you know, if I'm working from Chomsky's 'moral responsibility' to criticize what you can actually influence' model,' which is only...
Ah, that's actually a really good quasi-parallel to Milo, just in terms of folks speaking provocatively. It also really points to the way the right has always been as addicted to 'virtue signaling' as any other group since the beginning of time.
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