everything is a conversation
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
everything is a conversation
rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it
hinterlander • Tweet
No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond.
— René Girard
— René Girard
Jacob Sherman • Tweet
New worldviews are bubbling away in little cauldrons all the time, but they only flow into the mainstream (eg become part of corporate trainings, official gov't policy, school curricula) when they are structurally of service to preserve the power status quo.
Emmett Shearx.com“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
-John Steinbeck
choice a) tends to be taken by people who want to go faster or be more efficient or get a predictable outcome... and often blocks their ability to see what they actually need to do what they need to do in the territory. "A map is a claim about what can be ignored," ...and if you study the map first, you're likely ignore/not notice the things that... See more
Rudra Dakini • Tweet
part 2 of river kenna’s spiel on maps vs territory
A.A.’s earliest members “tried on” the ideas and insights of these brilliant, often eccentric thinkers, and whatever matched their own experience became part of the patchwork.