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I find it baffling that the author asks himself a question that he already answered for himself (but dismissed the answer) a few paragraphs earlier. The questi
by pdonis 4y ago
I find it baffling that the author asks himself a question that he already answered for himself (but dismissed the answer) a few paragraphs earlier.
The question: "What sort of roles should people who have received the call to this non-existent vocation be looking into to support themselves?"
The answer: "In the last few years our elites haven’t been doing a great job with this sensemaking stuff, and in many ways our shared reality feels like it’s coming apart at the seams."
The dismissal of the answer: "But there’s really not much you or I can do about that, now is there?"
To use the author's own words: Um, excuse me, what?
- throwanem 4y agoA major, and accurate, point being made is that this can only work with and for people one is personally close enough with for there to be mutual trust. This implies the problem isn't that current elites are doing sensemaking wrong, but rather that at the scale of a society like this one, there exists no way to do sensemaking right.