To increase unity and pursue the truth, your goal is to find foreign communities, and determine whether they are friendly or dangerous.
This is an interesting framing I hadn’t considered. I usually think of it more as just an exploration to find what perspectives communities/traditions/etc. offer in an ongoing hermeneutical search for the truth, digging into the wrong models other people have to get a bit less wrong myself, which seems pretty compatible with your take.
Yes, that seems very much along the lines I’m setting out!
I think part of where my take goes a level deeper is pointing out that you’re probably selective in which perspectives you seek out. There are probably some you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. Others that you would, but in secret, because your primary trust-networks would find them dangerous. And some that are in that sweet spot of being foreign enough to be novel for your trust-network, but also friendly enough to be accepted. It’s this latter category that I’m suggesting is most valuable to find, in the spirit of reconciling factionalism to move toward truth.
This is an interesting framing I hadn’t considered. I usually think of it more as just an exploration to find what perspectives communities/traditions/etc. offer in an ongoing hermeneutical search for the truth, digging into the wrong models other people have to get a bit less wrong myself, which seems pretty compatible with your take.
Yes, that seems very much along the lines I’m setting out!
I think part of where my take goes a level deeper is pointing out that you’re probably selective in which perspectives you seek out. There are probably some you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. Others that you would, but in secret, because your primary trust-networks would find them dangerous. And some that are in that sweet spot of being foreign enough to be novel for your trust-network, but also friendly enough to be accepted. It’s this latter category that I’m suggesting is most valuable to find, in the spirit of reconciling factionalism to move toward truth.