I struggle with morale related to the Web's wavering between social ideals of Open and Net Worth predation. It freezes me in my work as an advocate of Open. I become dissolusioned. #NFTs #A11y failures, behavior I don't understand. What do you think? Are we here to help or hurt?
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Holding two contradictory ideas in tandem is the mark of advanced cognition. As long as there is a top and a bottom, there will be those who lunge for the top, those flee from the bottom, and a rare few who strive to stabilize all together. Follow your polestar, and lead.
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Replying to @janetweets
I also think that that cognitive dissonance you're describing is actually black and white thinking. By only making a top and a bottom you're not allowing for the diversity of what comes in between which is a lot more than just the middle wouldn't you say?

Jun 16, 2021 · 11:09 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
Oh, not cognitive dissonance at all! Linear is a legit model. As are spatial models, booleans, and networks. Nature made apex predators, not my little accident of a mind. You can argue (and I'd agree) that the model is off, that using pyramids or endpoints is inadequate.
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Reliance on linear perceptions (time is a great example) excludes every other alternative falling into "non-linear" - this thinking is exclusionary out of the gate. A line as expressed geometrically in 2D versus human potential in reality? Orders of magnitude of difference.
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