Let’s call this process of {exposing our guessed interpretations of the other person’s position}.. uh.. “batleading”
I wonder how often that impulse to batlead is not correctly understood by the batleader, and when people respond as if we’re strawmanning or failing to notice our confusion and trying prematurely to dismiss a theory we ought to realise we haven’t understood (when really we just want to batlead) we tragically lack the terms or the introspection to object to that erroneous view of our state of mind, and things just degenerate from there
Let’s call this process of {exposing our guessed interpretations of the other person’s position}.. uh.. “batleading”
I wonder how often that impulse to batlead is not correctly understood by the batleader, and when people respond as if we’re strawmanning or failing to notice our confusion and trying prematurely to dismiss a theory we ought to realise we haven’t understood (when really we just want to batlead) we tragically lack the terms or the introspection to object to that erroneous view of our state of mind, and things just degenerate from there