December 12th, 2022
- what am I trying to say in this post about choice, that I haven't already said in commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets?
- (pulling from either the late-2021 draft or the recent draft)
- something I'm noticing is that in the context with MS or whoever where I'm talking about these ideas, there's often a lot of other stuff in the background
- including
- seriously questioning whether choice exists at all
- the divine will
- like what are the key bullet points?
- choice is about self-other boundary clarification
- choice has something to do with
- trust and opening to collaboration
- it seems to be possible to make a choice (including to collaborate) on one scale via forcing on the smaller scale
- this can be a useful move for getting a taste of things but isn't stable
- something (not in these drafts yet?)
- about the kind of choice that's about choosing between ice cream flavors
- or choosing whether to go to a party
- more scraps from 3rd blog post
- The case study of loud music: while I write this, I'm listening to Glitch Mob on some decent-sized speakers at a fairly hefty volume, and enjoying it tremendously. I'm tracking that the bass is probably audible from the apartment below me. I'm guessing that given that those neighbors also listen to loud music fairly often, that they'll have a relatively easy time imagining my experience and being glad that I'm enjoying my music tremendously. That's how I feel when I hear theirs. But there's still a puzzle of calibration, and if they were trying to have a quiet dinner party, or sleep, I'd want to know that. But would they tell me? They wouldn't if they assumed that I'm just an asshole who doesn't care.
- Something here feels sort of related to the parable about heaven & hell and the long forks.
- May each aspect's apparent resistance to dialogue be seen as it standing for the integrity of what dialogue looks like to it, and not losing that integrity to someone else's idea.