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Dion Kobussen's avatar

Wow, an analysis of the « condition humaine » even, worthy of the Chinese sage. Thanks Koen.

PS

According to the search suggestions the duck, duck offered me, Confusius was a foodie. 🍜

Well have you ever!

Koenfucius's avatar

Well that’s one more thing I share with the Chinese sage 😋

(Thanks for the compliment 👍)

Elisabeth Bromberg's avatar

New subscriber, happy to be here!

This is a useful frame, and the three questions are doing a lot of work, especially the dismantling of the weld between fact and interpretation. Where I keep landing, though, is on the step after. Run those questions properly and I usually end up with two or three readings that all hold up reasonably well, plus a much better grasp of the context I was missing. Which is honest, and also a kind of paralysis.

I wrote something last spring about why nuance matters in an age of absolutism, and the line I landed on was that holding multiple truths means seeing the whole terrain and then choosing your ground with intention. (Here if you'd like to read it, no pressure: https://unexpectedinsights.substack.com/p/truth-in-tension-why-complexity-matters) Second sight, the way you're describing it, is what gets us to the terrain. The choosing seems like a separate move, and not one that follows automatically from the dismantling.

So: are the three questions doing the work of weighting implicitly? Or is the choosing a separate move altogether, one where you accept that some context will stay missing and stand somewhere anyway?