Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025

fos@sdf.org writes:

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if i'm on a trip with some passionate vegematics who insist on
everyone eating vegematic. i may or may not, is my choice, not
theirs.

Yeah---it's so lamentable when people try to force their wisdom on other
people.  That's not my way of living at all.  I don't even provide
strong evidence of anything, unless the person really ``pays'' for it.
(I really don't mean it literally, of course.  The person has to pay
with a construction of the kind of exposed by David Bohm's ideas.  I'm a
reader of, for example, ``On Dialogue'' by David Bohm.)

USENET, for instance, is a dramatic illustration of intellectual
battles.  People come in here just waiting for the engagement of their
adversaries.  Since so many come with the same purpose, that's easy to
spot and they go on and on, spending immense amounts of energy on simply
subjugating their adversary.  It makes Hegel's ``The Phenomenology of
Spirit'' quite relevant.

Now, of course, just because someone is trying to force their wisdom on
us, it doesn't mean that the information they're giving us is bad
information.  The learner listens very carefully.