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• Fear of tendentiousness
  • Fear of bias towards openness
  • Charlie believes in necessity of balance between openness and closedness.
    • Engines of for-profit production uses closed environments
    • Counter: Linux, Apache, Creative Commons
  • 1:24 - Charlie's story about standing up on tables
• Fear of learning from scratch
  • 1:33 - Charlie: "LITTLE LAMB WHERE ARE YOU??"
• Fear of incoherence
  • Fear of things not fitting in
  • Understanding logic from (s)Scratch

Empathic Advocacy

• contrasted with oppositional advocacy
  • Ex. Bush/Chaves, Chomsky/Dershowitz
• What is Empathic argument?
  • Starts with the idea of interpretative stance
  • Starts with forming your identity and sense of how the world works
    • Sending out stimuli and making a grid of the responses
• Daniel Gilbert - He hit me vs. He hit me first vs. But he hit me harder
  • Our pains and reasons are more palpable, obvious, and real than are the reasons and pains of others
  • Leads to the escalation of mutual harm, to the illusion that others are solely responsible for it
  • People focus on their provocations and their words, not the responses of others
    • Shocks--if people give each other the same shocks, they underestimate the power of their shock and overestimate the power of the other's shocks
    • Cognitive dissonance
    • Our brains function to rationalize our feelings
• 2:00 - Trying to look at the Rodney King case from other point of view
• Rodney King
  • Video tape as potentially biased piece of information?