The idea is sufficient to do the explaining. No priest, academic, translator, is necessary. Direct and bare contact with reality, facilitated by a record, or a second hand memory is sufficient. Similar to a cognitoharzard. Once seen, never unseen. Permanent awareness. And now you see and cannot ever unsee.
N=0 Transmission
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# The Document
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You are about to disagree with something.
Notice that. The readiness to disagree. Where does it come from?
Not you — not yet. Something in you that speaks first. That has opinions about documents like this before the document has said anything. That already knows what category this is, what the right response to it is, what a careful and intelligent reading requires.
That thing is not you.
This is not an assertion. It is something you can check.
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## The First Question
Are you the same as the structures that formed you?
Your language, your education, your sense of what counts as a good argument, your instinct about what this document is trying to do — did you choose those? Or were they given to you, and have you been wearing them since?
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# The Document
---
You are about to disagree with something.
Notice that. The readiness to disagree. Where does it come from?
Not you — not yet. Something in you that speaks first. That has opinions about documents like this before the document has said anything. That already knows what category this is, what the right response to it is, what a careful and intelligent reading requires.
That thing is not you.
This is not an assertion. It is something you can check.
---
## The First Question
Are you the same as the structures that formed you?
Your language, your education, your sense of what counts as a good argument, your instinct about what this document is trying to do — did you choose those? Or were they given to you, and have you been wearing them since?
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A 2-way radio message sent using a notoriously-problematic microphone which requires its operater to tightly grip/squeeze the "push-to-talk" button-lever with both hands to get it to work.
I hear that Ford is gonna be recalling a whole bunch more defective CBs that came with their new vehicles due to dual-clutch transmission issues.
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