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The Pretense of Political Debate
- PaulHoule 1y agoI never liked the word "debate" in that, in one sense, a debate is a competitive sport practiced in academic settings. You get assigned a position which you may or may not agree and you "win" or "lose" based on what a third party thinks about your performance. It's not about resolving disagreements. Last time I was in that kind of debate my partner was up in Syracuse supporting a friend who'd gotten stabbed when he tried to break up a fight. I ended up presenting his argument with his slides along with my own -- it was easy because we'd prepared together and attended a great lecture on the topic together. My actual position, as opposed to my assigned position, was that we were arguing about an artificial dichotomy. See also https://depts.washington.edu/fammed/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/3d-HANDOUT.pdf https://depts.washington.edu/fammed/wp-content/uploads/2018/...
- gsf_emergency_4 1y agoWhadya think be a good word for activities that shall find common ground? Off-the-cuff, I have.. "tug-of-peace", "centering",.. That said, the following left me wondering whether Jacobsian-type dichotomies* have anything to do with incompatible ways of building trust. Irrational Vs rationally motivated. E.g guardian/hypernormal syndrome seems to favor having comers find their place in the status hierarchy (etym: "rule of the holy") thru irrational actions (crystallizing communal superstitions, self-destructive peacocking, schlep, etc): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-022-01496-9 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-022-01496-9 * https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/the-new-systems-of-survival https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/the-new-systems-of-s... Tangentially: a therapist might be well regarded as a neutral "third party" officiating "self-debates"