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OK, this is really important from @dhh "We all have our own red lines. Positions we find so beyond the pale that they're instant deal breakers. Good, fine, break those deals. But the more lines you accumulate, the more cross you're going to get." 1/n
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@dhh "The more constrained your tolerance for coexisting with others. So at very least ask yourself: did I collect too many? Are these the right ones?" It's (a) reminiscent of John Michael Greer's 'The Trouble with Binary Thinking' resilience.org/stories/2011-10-26/trouble-binary-thinking/ and
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(b) highly descriptive of what tends to happen at either/any wing of political (or religious!) discourse: the range of acceptable opinion to be "in the tribe" gets smaller and smaller, and the number of tribes fragments further and further until...
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...you're left in a very small group, perhaps just yourself, with whom you agree on every possible issue. Evolution dictated binary thinking so you didn't get eaten by a wild animal or eat a poisonous plant. We need to rise above it now.