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?

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.

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?

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.

I'm only saying that you can follow your polestar. It's in the sky, with no top or bottom, but it has direction.