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Think of a conversation as two points moving through time.
If we restrict freedom to one dimension, we have:
- Approach: [--
->-<---]
- Collision: [---
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- Polarization: [
--<->--]
Adding dimensions allows for pragmatic exchange of info via "conversational orbits".
If we restrict freedom to one dimension, we have:
- Approach: [--
->-<---]- Collision: [---
---]- Polarization: [
--<->--]Adding dimensions allows for pragmatic exchange of info via "conversational orbits".
The vast majority of political frames evolve toward low dimensionality not because it's the most optimal state for society's adaptive capacity, but because the simplicity of one dimensional conflict lends itself well to statistical modes of allocating capital based on polling.
Once one sees this pattern, it's visible everywhere. Most conversations converge–in "snap-to-grid" fashion–to a complex of pre-approved 1 dimensional frames.
These frames have less to do with reality than with the canalization of perception by beneficiaries of said canalization.
These frames have less to do with reality than with the canalization of perception by beneficiaries of said canalization.
In this manner, practicing high dimensional (i.e. good) conversation is one of the most fundamentally participatory practices available to any citizen, given that there exists great power in the beauty of the patterns such conversational orbits weave through time.
Of course these patterns–like great cathedrals–take more time to create.
Which is why forces that rob us of the attention required to weave them will fundamentally act against our capacity to transmute the increasing complexity of our environment into greater forms of beauty.
Which is why forces that rob us of the attention required to weave them will fundamentally act against our capacity to transmute the increasing complexity of our environment into greater forms of beauty.
We hear much about political "resistance", but little about the deeper forms of resistance required to ensure that we retain the space and time required to practice the Art of Conversation, which is at root a kind of high-dimensional dance by which we come to grasp the infinite.
