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This is essentially nonsensical though. You can internally reject social consensus or even objective measurement, but you cannot choose the frame in which you a
by quesera 4y ago
This is essentially nonsensical though. You can internally reject social consensus or even objective measurement, but you cannot choose the frame in which you are evaluated by others.
> I can't think of any social construct that does not require buy-in from the affected parties.
"Prisoner", "slave", and "taxpayer" spring to mind (but I repeat myself). These are artifacts of social consensus, enforced by people with stronger-than-usual opinions about the correctness of their evaluations.
Viktor Frankl, Nat Turner, and Warren Buffett, as exceptions, do not disprove the larger point.
- kqr 4y agoI think I see where the misunderstanding comes from! I did not mean to say that you, as an individual, can disappear the grocery store by ceasing to believe in it, any less than you can wish away a recession by choosing not to believe in it. These social constructions (recession, manager, grocery store) are the product of the belief of a majority of the relevant people. One person believing this way or that way changes nothing. Only when most people stop believing do we see change. Slavery is a great example of a type of social relationship that ends when people stop believing in it. This goes for the recession just as well as the other examples I gave.