Today's color is #498c6e
I am going to reread and re-categorize my old posts, and I should be done with that by next Wednesday. I would also like to find a way to filter out pre-posts when reading through old posts, I don't expect everyone who reads it to read it every day, so there should be a way to just get to the parts you like. (Whatever they be.)
Three Questions:
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What is the most prominent mechanism when we identify with people? Is it seeing them as tribe or family? Is it the thought that we could be that person if our circumstances were different? Is it simply an understanding of their pleasure or pain? When is an experience so alien to us that we can't even imagine it?
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Can we learn to imagine things that didn't even exist before? Can we enrich our experience of the world with meditation and words? How does reading of an experience from a well-written perspective affect us? And can we understand how it feels if it is expressed in words alone?
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And here I ask the question everyone asked before? How do we get other people to change their opinions to better match ours? How can we change someone else understanding of reality? Can we do so just using words? And does it become impossible if they don't want to change?
So how do we make someone want to change? What carrot can we dangle in front of their face?
Four Creative* Lines:
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And with the right carrots, we create cults or dictatorships. We want this better life, and as soon as we sell them on the what the how can follow.
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Why is communism still alive? Because if authority was distributed equally, it might work. And we call distributed authority democracy.
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(I'm completely out, I have no clue what else to write and I'm out of time, so I'll just able and hope something comes out of it.)
If a lie can keep us working for a week we will find a new one each week to keep ourselves moving.
Progress is built. Progress is inevitable. But not everything we call progress is progress. And many before have been able to stop progress for a time. At least until they lost a war. Then they rushed to catch up.
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It may take me a few years but I can do it, I can do anything possible. But I won't do most things that are possible for I don't have the time.
