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🧩Oh sweet Jesus, I just realized we've self polarized our society into a severe Type A / Type B divide.
So polarized that both sides have deluded themselves into thinking they are talking pure sense to pure intransigence.
Zero communication is actually taking place, people are talking orthogonally to each other.
Type A's have gaslit themselves into thinking they have perfect vision but they are near sighted. They can only see a tree, while you talk of ecosystems. Ontological mismatch.
Type B's have gaslit themselves into thinking they have perfect vision but they are farsighted. They see the causality of the large system but are so detached the human component (Dr Manhattan) that they THINK they are communicating dispassionately and accurately and with empathy, but they actually use words that Type A's are incapable of understanding, attack their very sense of identity, then remain dumbstruck that A's behaved irrationally when they got cornered into fight/flight (no shit). So smart that they are not realizing they are talking to the blind about color and animation. Ontological mismatch.
I've always thought if you're as smart as you think you are about something, you should be able to convince someone that you are in a position of authority on the subject they are talking about without you yourself becoming irrational and unregulated.
Our generation does have a shared language that bridges the divide. Unironically... Memes. Memetics will likely be an emerging field of communication theory.
So when you want to talk to someone that sounds delusional. Stop getting mad and try and communicate via memes, you'd be surprised at how information dense they can be. A picture really is worth a thousand words. Multiplied by whatever caption you add.
Edit:
Ok, I see I'm coming across as greek. If anyone wants to learn/dive some interesting metaphysics today... I would start with this fun video. If you like it, comeback and re-read my post and see if it seems more clear. I'm happy to talk at length about this topic.
If you are here on your second pass and its starting to be a little clearer, then the next step is read this reply further down.
If you are here on your third pass I would watch the movie "Watchmen (2009)" - Director's Cut ideally, but theatrical is fine. Try and watch it through the lens of "Perspective." What does the world look like to each of the characters? (If the movie seems over your head, this may help.)
If you are here on your fourth pass, Hi! I love you! Might want to watch "Ender's Game (2013)" trying to "Understand Your Enemy."
This is what I call recursive problem solving. To learn more, study "recursion" from a programming language perspective. My mind kinda subconsciously does that; any question that my mind detects as:
This has caused me no end of problems in my life as I speak heavily in metaphor in a world where I am unsure of when people are speaking literally or figuratively. I often miss jokes and sarcasm, cuz my mind is often just so very very far away. Thinkin about things like... but surely if I was falling feet first into a black hold spacetime must.... etc etc etc.
But at least in conversations like this I am slowly starting to loop back around. Always learning. Someday I'll learn that elusive skill of saying exactly what I mean to say and be understood by the person hearing it.
It's gotten to the point where ppl say I sound like AI and AI says I sound like AI. Now I can be misunderstood by both Man and Machine. 😮💨
Have you considered allowing the love of our lord Jesus Christ into your life?
Have you considered that he already is?
"Judge not lest ye be judged. " -Matthew 7:1-5
Faith and science are not opposites or enemies. They are each 1/2 the puzzle. As someone who clearly feels spiritual, you already have 1/2 the picture.
So if you want the other half, you have a choice to make.
A) Take Leap of Faith and accept the truth as per scientific consensus weighted accordingly by the quality of the data upon which that consensus is based
B) Do the necessary hard work to actually learn about the topics you claim to know about.
I hold as a self evident truth that if you truly know a lot about a subject, you should be able to explain it without crashing out or getting upset.
I like you.
Neuro divergent? 😋
Are you a wizard?
Truth be told I never tried Wizard, always went for sorcerer. I don't like structured learning I like to wander the topic at my discretion.
But yeah, AuDHD Sever Combined Type E/S
(Engineering / Systemizing)
Basically it's like matrix vision.
Figuratively speaking. I don't literally see flying code.
It's just that I see everything as things operating inside a governing system nested in another system nested in another system nested in another system nested in another system nested in another system nested in another system nested in another system nested in another system nested in another system nested in another system nested in another system ...
So my mind zooms around to the level of granularity needed for a given topic.
If we talk about government, my mind zooms in to the nation level.
If we talk space I might be at the solar system level or the galactic scale. Etc.
Ahoy, I edited my original comment and my reply to you to help try and add more context. I know I speak in a weird abstract way, run into issues like this. Especially in text formats, my tone is stripped away. https://lemmy.world/post/44431978/22737826
Just paste it into AI and ask it to simplify it. That's one of the few good things it can actually do in this scenario.
Paste at beginning:
Sir, this is an animal shelter
Sorry! I gotcha, lemme try to explain: https://lemmy.world/post/44431978/22737826