Ancestors

Written by Ruth Malan on 2025-01-27 at 14:13

Self-righteousness is like seeing things through a tube. Or something. It really limits understanding of why people make different choices. And by not understanding (and being fsking off-putting), limits how effective we might be, in offering and fostering alternatives…

Yes. Yes. Me being self-righteous about not being self-righteous… We are strange loops.

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Written by Ruth Malan on 2025-01-27 at 14:16

“In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages that are little miracles of self-reference.”

— Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

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Toot

Written by Ruth Malan on 2025-01-27 at 14:23

Also. Need to find more inclusive analogies than referring to sight — perception uses all our senses. (Perception uses imagination and generosity/goodwill too — we “span gaps”…)

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Descendants