If ideologies would be just about I’m for the blue tribe or I’m for the red tribe, then there would be a zero-sum.
I do believe that progress often arises dialectically. For that, it’s useful if both sides develop deep arguments.
For both the rationality community and the new agey community where a lot of different ideas are developed I find it strange to think in terms of zero-sum because rationality is a lot more than just self-identifying as belonging to the rationality tribe. I like the new agey people who deeply practice some skill a lot more than new agey people for whom it’s just shallow tribe membership.
Agreed. People trying to purvey values don’t only spread values; they also make factual claims, and in so doing help bring light to facts that people holding different values would like to ignore or minimize as inconvenient for their claims.
If ideologies would be just about I’m for the blue tribe or I’m for the red tribe, then there would be a zero-sum.
I do believe that progress often arises dialectically. For that, it’s useful if both sides develop deep arguments.
For both the rationality community and the new agey community where a lot of different ideas are developed I find it strange to think in terms of zero-sum because rationality is a lot more than just self-identifying as belonging to the rationality tribe. I like the new agey people who deeply practice some skill a lot more than new agey people for whom it’s just shallow tribe membership.
Agreed. People trying to purvey values don’t only spread values; they also make factual claims, and in so doing help bring light to facts that people holding different values would like to ignore or minimize as inconvenient for their claims.