"But (what if) I'm right"
- May 1st, 2020: Was thinking April 30th, 2020 there's something interesting & important about this phrase, and how it blurs the "right=factual" & "right=entitlement" meanings.
- There's a sense that someone who thinks that they are right thinks that anyone who won't listen to them is wrong, and that they are entitled to their perspective etc getting heard by that person.
- This is very different than the "I see a square, you see a circle, we're both seeing accurately but not the full picture—it's a cylinder" framing
- (image from Daniel Schmactenberger's Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of Reality, which elaborates on this whole thing)
- If the person who doesn't feel like their perspective is heard is operating from more of a cylinder model, they won't tend to say "but I'm right" because "rightness" is not