In his conversation with Jordan Peterson, Russell Brand mentioned this sentence by Albert Maysles, a film director.
It reminded me of the Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2009 Ted talk : The danger of a single story
I see allot of this binary thinking going around. As if we are bundles of yes and no. Feels like there is an hierarchy of tag line over the conversational structure. Which in his turn is the answer to all the problems because proper conversation can include multitudes of legit narratives, where dominance structure wants one line story with a note. same as school notes.
Fast forward to today’s paranoia. Isn’t that what scares us about being chipped? to be reduced to a list of facts, nuanceless…
