Susan could try to put focal attention on the scissor origins; but one way that would be difficult is that she’d get pushback from her community.
which I did say in a parenthetical, but I was mainly instead saying
Susan’s community is a key substrate for the scissor origins, maybe more than Susan’s interaction with Robert. Therefore, to put focal attention on the scissor origins, a good first step might be looking at her community—how it plays the role of one half of a scissor statement.
Your reasons for hope make sense.
hope/memory of the previous society that (Susan and Tusan and Vusan) and (Robert and Sobert and Tobert) all shared, which she has some hope of reaccessing here
Anecdata: In my case it would be mostly a hope, not a memory. E.g. I don’t remember a time when “I understand what you’re saying, but...” was a credible statement… Maybe it never was? E.g. I don’t remember a time when I would expect people to be sufficiently committed to computing “what would work for everyone to live together” that they kept doing so in political contexts.
I think you might have been responding to
which I did say in a parenthetical, but I was mainly instead saying
Your reasons for hope make sense.
Anecdata: In my case it would be mostly a hope, not a memory. E.g. I don’t remember a time when “I understand what you’re saying, but...” was a credible statement… Maybe it never was? E.g. I don’t remember a time when I would expect people to be sufficiently committed to computing “what would work for everyone to live together” that they kept doing so in political contexts.