This is a post where I'll write various non-sense (under cut, and I'll keep editing it for a while). Also I am setting a default to screen comments in this post
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...to both set it aside and to retrieve it back intactlena_nekFebruary 5 2010, 22:56:48 UTC
A non-PC reaction: Fractal vision of the whole is compatible with a specific viewpoint, as long as you see the latter not only in terms of some "objective truth", but also in terms of stuff like your psychological makeup, or culture, or class interests (yea, alas), or familial loyalty. Your viewpoint still has to be grounded both in reason ("objectivity" )and in some notion of fair play ("Hillel's paradigm" :), but it can contain other components as well. As long as you (i) recognize where these other components come from, and (ii) are not ashamed of their source, you are under no danger of decoherence. Or so it seems to me. I mean, I can envision myself as a youth from Ramalla, viewing israelis as wealthy intruders who, if worst comes to worst, will be sheltered by even wealthier relatives in the west. If I were born in his shoes, I might view the world thru his prism. But I, in addition to having a completely different and no less justifiable (to put it mildly) view on the situation, (i) am an educated ashkenazi with close friends in Israel, and (ii) do not see any serious reason to be ashamed of this fact (i.e. no more than of my education or a home in a relatively prestigious neighborhood)...
Fractal vision of the whole is compatible with a specific viewpoint, as long as you see the latter not only in terms of some "objective truth", but also in terms of stuff like your psychological makeup, or culture, or class interests (yea, alas), or familial loyalty. Your viewpoint still has to be grounded both in reason ("objectivity" )and in some notion of fair play ("Hillel's paradigm" :), but it can contain other components as well. As long as you (i) recognize where these other components come from, and (ii) are not ashamed of their source, you are under no danger of decoherence. Or so it seems to me.
I mean, I can envision myself as a youth from Ramalla, viewing israelis as wealthy intruders who, if worst comes to worst, will be sheltered by even wealthier relatives in the west. If I were born in his shoes, I might view the world thru his prism. But I, in addition to having a completely different and no less justifiable (to put it mildly) view on the situation, (i) am an educated ashkenazi with close friends in Israel, and (ii) do not see any serious reason to be ashamed of this fact (i.e. no more than of my education or a home in a relatively prestigious neighborhood)...
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