being on the same side & being on truth's side

created 2020-04-22 · edited 2020-04-22 · open in Roam

essay I drafted in like 2017 or something, maybe even earlier, that I haven't pasted in here yet. if you find this go ahead and ping me on twitter: @Malcolm_Ocean and ask me to add it here

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boom very powerful tweet for being on the same side & being on truth's side
- original context:
  - mage > doesnt it strike anyone else as odd that we have such little *practical* *relational* *emotional* wisdom built up in our culture
  - orson > I’m not sure. Is that really the case? Surely I’ve been exposed to hugely more examples of human interactions over my lifetime than anybody who was born pre-cinema. And all the more so since YouTube!
- twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1601524717399441409

being on the same side & being on truth's side
- huh, I feel like I'm almost coming back around to a viewpoint that says
  - "no, actually, it's all "being on truth's side"—but you can't get the whole truth of anything social without listening & parallaxing"
    - (is this 🦋 Kegan 6?)
  - ah yeah, it's like... mathematicians being all on truth's side are on the side of a truth any one of them could find, but socially being on truth's side requires acknowledging the limitations of your own viewpoint