spiderwort @ spiderwort @lemm.ee

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What if I want the right to vote?

Some opinions cannot be explained. For example "chocolate is better than vanilla".

There are a lot of those. It's the earth upon which all argumentation stands.

So at some point the question arises, "do I respect the individual?"

But for us, on the internet, the individual doesn't really exist?

But language cannot convey perspective. It can only refer to it. Language only works when perspective is shared.

If perspective is not shared then, tho we use the same words, the meaning we assign to them differs. We may appear to be communicating but we really aren't quite, there's something broken there, and that brokenness generally gets translated as "this guy is just stupid".

This is a problem with language and the internet.

It isn't a worldview devoid of reason. It's perfectly good reason based upon a set of assumptions that differ from yours.

Reason is the house. The assumptions is the ground upon which the house is built.

Some ground is rock, some swamp, some flat, sloped... all require different house designs. Dig?

How does authority figure in?

I don't understand his reasoning but he's got a good reputation. Or cites such.

What if they simply see things differently?

Chocolate is better than vanilla. Argument? Of course not.

Argument requires shared assumptions. If the assumptions are not shared then you can't argue.

And then what's left? Respect for the individual?

If we could dispose of respect for the individual, then we could replace democracy with science. That would be efficient.

So it depends on the threat level. That's prudent.

But what if my perspective differs?

Argumentation cannot account for that.

Argumentation requires a shared perspective and shared axioms.

My mom (80) has 20 mil or so. (Dad dead)

But she cares only about partying and home renno and refuses to even buy her kids a cup of coffee.

So we wait like vultures.

Cat

500 kinds of mangos. 2000 kinds of apples...

What's up with all the masks? Do they want to be anonymous?

hey look the monkeys are upvoting you

Nope, I mean identity politics. IE popular concern for the details and ramifications of identity, so great that it rises into the political realm.

Tell me that you didn't notice.

But it didn't become a big thing till the last decade, IE when we all got on social media.

A hundred genders. New pronouns. This is a new thing.

Sorta star wars too.

Multiple simultaneous plot threads. Fuck that weak lazy shit.

The plot is discovery and progressive revealment of big weird thing. The climax is flashback-heavy explanation of big weird thing.

A billion years ago we figured out acquisition. Grab all the stuff.

A million years ago we figured out language.

Now we use language for acquisition. If we do that efficiently enough we can convert language to acquisition 100%. Which deletes all value from the language for us. But what a great business!