11-17-2017, 12:00 AM
Le_Regard wrote:
Pixie Dust wrote:
Le_Regard wrote:
You want statistics? Treating people like statistics is how we got into this mess in the first place. If you want to keep running the world your way, go ahead, but I think we can both agree it's not working.
But wait, let me keep using an impersonal and academic approach to really drive home the point that it's a faulty method.
All methods are flawed, in exactly the same ways all maps are flawed, in that they fundamentally are just NOT the territory they're supposed to guide you through.
Everyone wants to have a map, and a GOOD map, a peer reviewed map published in a credible scientific journal. I get that. I really do get that some maps are better or worse, more or less useful, than other maps. But they're still maps. People are not maps, people are territory. If our strategy is to keep our hands clean and plot other human beings as points on OUR map and then try to move them about like chess pieces, it doesn't work. It will never work.
Ok.
It will never work for you. Stop masturbating over the idea if you're so certain.
Pixie Dust wrote:
Le_Regard wrote:
You want statistics? Treating people like statistics is how we got into this mess in the first place. If you want to keep running the world your way, go ahead, but I think we can both agree it's not working.
But wait, let me keep using an impersonal and academic approach to really drive home the point that it's a faulty method.
All methods are flawed, in exactly the same ways all maps are flawed, in that they fundamentally are just NOT the territory they're supposed to guide you through.
Everyone wants to have a map, and a GOOD map, a peer reviewed map published in a credible scientific journal. I get that. I really do get that some maps are better or worse, more or less useful, than other maps. But they're still maps. People are not maps, people are territory. If our strategy is to keep our hands clean and plot other human beings as points on OUR map and then try to move them about like chess pieces, it doesn't work. It will never work.
Ok.
It will never work for you. Stop masturbating over the idea if you're so certain.