Game Change is when you understand the game well enough to play it effectively while actively working to change its rules .

It’s “both sides have partial truth so we need to synthesize them into something more adequate.”

Reality is messier. Different cultures have developed different capabilities. A hunter-gatherer society might have more sophisticated ecological knowledge and social coordination than an industrial society, even if it lacks smartphones. An indigenous wisdom tradition might offer more subtle understanding of consciousness than Western psychology,... See more

It’s the idealist who says “we should all just be nice to each other” without recognizing that material conditions and power relations shape behavior.

s making actual decisions and taking actual positions, but holding them provisionally rather than dogmatically. It means being willing to change course when evidence suggests you’re wrong. It means recognizing that your opponents might be responding to something real, even if you disagree with their solutions.