Some ideas to keep coming often

A Change in Perspective Is Worth 80 IQ Points

We must expect to misunderstand. We must expect to be misunderstood. For sanity we must try to minimise misunderstanding.

System Justification Theory : Inefficient systems will be defended and maintained if they serve the needs of people who benefit from them – individual incentives can sustain systemic stupidity.

Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas

“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.” - Deborah Levy

World we try to symbolize with this language is a world of process, change, differences, dimensions, functions, relationships, growths, interactions, developing, learning, coping, complexity. And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is part of our problem

We map the world, ourselves included
Map is not the Territory
The map is not all the Territory - it is bound to leave out things on Territory
Maps are self reflexive - ie map maker may pretend to transcend the map but he is affecting the map making

…the more time we spend in the tower’s mirror world of abstractions and the higher we climb, the more important it is that we hold on to a fistful of mud.