@RodericDay What also might be effective (for one’s own practice, and for informing spectators) is to not address their argument as it is, but detail the purpose of what they’re saying, what material interests that argument serves.
@DoctorMuuro @emptinessok @MrTaha An utterly absurd notion with zero historical precedent which is why it’s exclusively the domain of finger wagging western losers
@emptinessok @MrTaha Your question is more about self-soothing for lack of any discernible accomplishment then any real attempt to understand whats going on
@vapetrees@Rocko64_ “You’re literally saying what you just said. Are you for real?”
The most utterly useless form of comment, if you have some kind of information or analysis to add do that instead of performative exasperation.
@RodericDay If thinking about things dialectically means reorienting your thinking to focus on relationships rather than states, then the relationships between multiple disciplines is where you can find opportunities to exploit.
@GuiveAssadi@TherynDArnold@peligrietzer it’s incredibly lazy and incurious to “dismiss” any work that has clearly had such a large impact on shaping current society, regardless whether you think it’s “incorrect”
@bidetmarxman@RodericDay Trajectories are the most useful way I’ve found at sidestepping the “China good/bad” debates I usually end up in. It either ends in a revision in their position or “well we have different opinions”.