I like diversity. Not just in appearance, but in sub/cultural differences. I'll call sub/culture tribes for the rest of this comment. For the world that I want to live in to be a thing with that is that we must stop looking for and assuming the worst about the other tribes (race, gender, worldview, orientation).
I like diversity. Not just in appearance, but in sub/cultural differences. I'll call sub/culture tribes for the rest of this comment. For the world that I want to live in to be a thing with that is that we must stop looking for and assuming the worst about the other tribes (race, gender, worldview, orientation).
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” -Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
We are usually most comfortable within the tribal norms we are accustomed to. It is too common to find things we don't like that are norms withing another tribe. The thing is, I have found it better for me to notice the things that are beyond good, they are wonderful in other tribes.
I think that Mark Twain's travel quote pertained to the idea that expanding our experience with people of other tribes is that we come to see their basic humanity. We might even discover the why behind those differences and see some validity in them.
Much of the anti-this&that we see on the internet is virtue signaling our membership in a tribe that we identify ourselves in. Our place in a tribe goes back in history to our very survival, but our survival as a species my well require an acceptance of each other that can only happen with a cease fire in the current culture wars as a beginning.
I don't want to erase anyone's identity, just the negative assumptions that we see about that.
"Much of the anti-this&that we see on the internet is virtue signaling our membership in a tribe that we identify ourselves in"
Absolutely. See also the blind adherence to lies or completely illogical positions; Trump won the election, all white people are racist, trans women competing in female sport is fair. All of these are logically incoherent positions that would have been utterly rejected what? Ten years ago? Now, depending on which side of the aisle you pledge allegiance to, these are part of your orthodoxy.
And this allows us to move beyond thinking and learning and nuance, anybody who won't say the right words is on "the other side." Regardless of anything else they might say or do.
What's truly maddening is that most people, on either side, can see this. They're just too afraid of the backlash to say so. So we end up with these all-or-nothing, "with us or against us," conversations.
I like diversity. Not just in appearance, but in sub/cultural differences. I'll call sub/culture tribes for the rest of this comment. For the world that I want to live in to be a thing with that is that we must stop looking for and assuming the worst about the other tribes (race, gender, worldview, orientation).
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” -Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
We are usually most comfortable within the tribal norms we are accustomed to. It is too common to find things we don't like that are norms withing another tribe. The thing is, I have found it better for me to notice the things that are beyond good, they are wonderful in other tribes.
I think that Mark Twain's travel quote pertained to the idea that expanding our experience with people of other tribes is that we come to see their basic humanity. We might even discover the why behind those differences and see some validity in them.
Much of the anti-this&that we see on the internet is virtue signaling our membership in a tribe that we identify ourselves in. Our place in a tribe goes back in history to our very survival, but our survival as a species my well require an acceptance of each other that can only happen with a cease fire in the current culture wars as a beginning.
I don't want to erase anyone's identity, just the negative assumptions that we see about that.
"Much of the anti-this&that we see on the internet is virtue signaling our membership in a tribe that we identify ourselves in"
Absolutely. See also the blind adherence to lies or completely illogical positions; Trump won the election, all white people are racist, trans women competing in female sport is fair. All of these are logically incoherent positions that would have been utterly rejected what? Ten years ago? Now, depending on which side of the aisle you pledge allegiance to, these are part of your orthodoxy.
And this allows us to move beyond thinking and learning and nuance, anybody who won't say the right words is on "the other side." Regardless of anything else they might say or do.
What's truly maddening is that most people, on either side, can see this. They're just too afraid of the backlash to say so. So we end up with these all-or-nothing, "with us or against us," conversations.