04-19-2024, 07:12 PM
But what if I don't like peanut butter and jelly?
Look I'm sure I have a lot of knee jerk rancor and only engage on certain topics where I feel very strongly or where I have a unique viewpoint to offer or additional information to supply that others seem not to have considered.
I concur about the two pieces of bread in our sandwich being very different, like the left one's a lightly toasted thin sliced piece of nutritious multigrain bread while the right one's a thick three week old stale and now toasted to a crisp sourdough.
There's no room for negotiating when someone holds an extreme and intractable belief that requires the elimination of all opposition.
But I also think there are a lot of interesting and important areas for discussion that aren't clearly broken down into the left/right liberal/conservative dichotomies of US politics, like the "aritificial intelligence" of large language models and who should own the output of their prompts, are there any environmental impacts of concern to an increasing frequency of large rocket launches globally and who should be responsible for the consequences of space debris that damages property or harms life, whether our justice system can be fixed if it requires the recognizance of the lawbreaker to effectively punish convicted criminals, and thousands of other issues.
The middle seeks pragmatic solutions that actually solve problems. The extremes are feeding a dangerous seemingly runaway feedback cycle that draws attention from problems that can be solved to issues that beget power unto a seemingly narcissistic and self serving class across the board, especially when those politics are centered around a dogma of religious fundamentalism and binary law in which there is no mercy.
Look I'm sure I have a lot of knee jerk rancor and only engage on certain topics where I feel very strongly or where I have a unique viewpoint to offer or additional information to supply that others seem not to have considered.
I concur about the two pieces of bread in our sandwich being very different, like the left one's a lightly toasted thin sliced piece of nutritious multigrain bread while the right one's a thick three week old stale and now toasted to a crisp sourdough.
There's no room for negotiating when someone holds an extreme and intractable belief that requires the elimination of all opposition.
But I also think there are a lot of interesting and important areas for discussion that aren't clearly broken down into the left/right liberal/conservative dichotomies of US politics, like the "aritificial intelligence" of large language models and who should own the output of their prompts, are there any environmental impacts of concern to an increasing frequency of large rocket launches globally and who should be responsible for the consequences of space debris that damages property or harms life, whether our justice system can be fixed if it requires the recognizance of the lawbreaker to effectively punish convicted criminals, and thousands of other issues.
The middle seeks pragmatic solutions that actually solve problems. The extremes are feeding a dangerous seemingly runaway feedback cycle that draws attention from problems that can be solved to issues that beget power unto a seemingly narcissistic and self serving class across the board, especially when those politics are centered around a dogma of religious fundamentalism and binary law in which there is no mercy.