What is a post? How do I know if I’m near one? What’s it like to recognize one? How can I tell what I do by default in the presence of posts? How can I tell if someone is or isn’t attempting to manage my interactions with posts? How can I tell if I’m running or walking or crawling? When does it matter? How can I tell if it might matter in a particular moment? How can I tell if I’m trying to manage someone else’s interactions with a post? What would I look for in the motions of my own mind and in my perceptions of their responses and in the features of the situation we’re both inhabiting? And if you were wrong that meadows and posts is really a good way for me to think about the kinds of situations you want me to care about in this essay, how would I look where to find that out and build a better concept for myself? Grump.
I didn’t have the same “yanked” response as you did—if anything, I find Duncan usually takes too long to get to the point—but I concur with the quoted bit. I would read a follow-up post with some thoughts on that.
Softening comment for Duncan: I almost always agree with your eventual point to some extent, or can at least respect how you came to hold it, which is like 95% of the regard you could possibly gain from me re a particular claim.
>I didn’t have the same “yanked” response as you did—if anything, I find Duncan usually takes too long to get to the point
I don’t think how quickly or slowly he gets to the point has much impact on the thing I’m trying to talk about with “yanked”. This is not a “slow down” feeling, it’s a “get your grubby hands off my psychology” feeling. I think it’s possible to move very quickly while leaving lots of the kind of “space” I’m wanting.
Based on this thread, I currently plan to add both an intro and an expansion that meets the needs listed above, probably clearly headlined as “here’s how you’d know if you could skip this part.”
Additional wants or suggestions for such sections welcome.
I didn’t have the same “yanked” response as you did—if anything, I find Duncan usually takes too long to get to the point—but I concur with the quoted bit. I would read a follow-up post with some thoughts on that.
Softening comment for Duncan: I almost always agree with your eventual point to some extent, or can at least respect how you came to hold it, which is like 95% of the regard you could possibly gain from me re a particular claim.
>I didn’t have the same “yanked” response as you did—if anything, I find Duncan usually takes too long to get to the point
I don’t think how quickly or slowly he gets to the point has much impact on the thing I’m trying to talk about with “yanked”. This is not a “slow down” feeling, it’s a “get your grubby hands off my psychology” feeling. I think it’s possible to move very quickly while leaving lots of the kind of “space” I’m wanting.
Based on this thread, I currently plan to add both an intro and an expansion that meets the needs listed above, probably clearly headlined as “here’s how you’d know if you could skip this part.”
Additional wants or suggestions for such sections welcome.
Also: oof