the key is neither the marketplace for ideas nor debate are good models for accomplishing anything productive. they do not encourage people to come to them ready to listen, but instead create an arena of professional wrestling in the format of “discussion.”
a better model is the idea that you have a big pot of soup. your soup is your idea. you invite people to add ingredients to the soup. as a group, any time someone brings a new ingredient to the soup (a new mode of promoting and participating with the idea) you have the opportunity to integrate that ingredient or to say it doesn’t go with the rest of what’s already in the soup.
your goal, with your idea soup, is to invite as many people as you can to add ingredients so that your pot of soup is as big as possible and can feed as many people as possible. that means when you reject ingredients, you have to explain clearly why those ingredients don’t belong with the rest of the soup
which is why there is no One True Soup. you will learn what other soup pots have good people and good ingredients. you’ll leave your soup pot from time to time to hang out at another soup pot and maybe get ideas for your soup. the only soup pots you don’t visit are the ones surrounded by nazis. like you shouldn’t eat at Richard Dawkins or JK Rowlings’ soup pots
the key is neither the marketplace for ideas nor debate are good models for accomplishing anything productive. they do not encourage people to come to them ready to listen, but instead create an arena of professional wrestling in the format of “discussion.”
a better model is the idea that you have a big pot of soup. your soup is your idea. you invite people to add ingredients to the soup. as a group, any time someone brings a new ingredient to the soup (a new mode of promoting and participating with the idea) you have the opportunity to integrate that ingredient or to say it doesn’t go with the rest of what’s already in the soup.
your goal, with your idea soup, is to invite as many people as you can to add ingredients so that your pot of soup is as big as possible and can feed as many people as possible. that means when you reject ingredients, you have to explain clearly why those ingredients don’t belong with the rest of the soup
That would never work, because everyone likes different soup…
which is why there is no One True Soup. you will learn what other soup pots have good people and good ingredients. you’ll leave your soup pot from time to time to hang out at another soup pot and maybe get ideas for your soup. the only soup pots you don’t visit are the ones surrounded by nazis. like you shouldn’t eat at Richard Dawkins or JK Rowlings’ soup pots
Pour hot soup on stupid people, got it.
Smart people ALSO get the stupid soup.
I banged your dad