
The problem of the verbalistic (and the journalistic) is expressed in an aphorism in the Incerto: mathematicians think in (well precisely defined and mapped) objects, philosophers in concepts, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators (…), and fools in words. Two people can be using the same word, meaning different things, yet continue the conversation, whi…
…xactly the root of the polarisation that we are seeing — and was the reason for making the podcast. In the past, being ejected from one’s tribe would have been fatal, so we have a deep, hard-wired tribalism, increasingly fuelled by social media and the downward spiral of the mainstream media, that fuels this tribalism, an ‘us and them’ mentality.
…society. In fact, I think part of the reason that there is so much misogyny in the community is that it is so socially unacceptable for a man to make a conscious effort to be attractive to women that many pickup artists have to maintain high levels of sexism to keep their masculinity preserved.