Davino

How to present advanced views to regular people?

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Empathy, Patience, Humility appear to be good starting points but perhaps
you'll appreciate my post on this question I myself contemplated with GPT.


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Instead of presenting the advanced view to them, try:

-Asking them powerful questions

-Putting them through a visualization 

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Miracles such as reaching an actual understanding might be a bit much to hope for. The next best thing is to say your piece in a way that can inspire curiosity without causing conflict. For both your sakes there must be complete detachment from the outcome. On the off-chance someone is at all receptive to begin with, they might reach entirely different conclusions in the end. All your focus on avoiding conflict should be directed at the other person. Whether you yourself are viewed as sexist or deluded is of no consequence. If you possess the truth, then that's unshakable and unchanging, nothing can cut it, you can listen to all they have to say calmly. Sometimes that might entail appearing as an ignorant fence-sitter that has no particular opinions on anything, but what of it? Instances where the other party is in such a bad epistemic position that breaking down their fantasy by force is the more loving course of action are few and far between, it's more likely that unnecessary insistence will cause discomfort and further close down the mind. That's something everyone instinctually knows, the more fervently one argues for their position the less they themselves are confident in it. 

An important distinction is whether the communication is not working due to your own failures, or the other person's narrow-mindedness. How would you truly tell the difference? It's rarely as apparent as it might seem. If nothing else, use them as a feedback tool to consolidate the understanding clearer in your own mind, chances are you'll close some gaps, find a simpler articulation, or come up with poignant examples/metaphors. 

Unless dealing with a serious person that does radical independent inquiry, expect any progress reached to be undone, sometimes in a matter of days. Survival pressures and pre-existing beliefs will overwhelm it in a flash. In one ear and out the other. Length of the session is irrelevant here, you could be talking for 3 hours straight and the result won't change. It's an issue almost too fundamental to overcome. Hardly any topic you can bring up will be seen as life-changing to seriously consider, at best it's intellectually stimulating. We might live and breathe philosophy, but everyone else does not. And if it can be considered life-changing, then it's going to be perceived as a threat and shut down. If truth is not already held as the highest value, at least unconsciously, then you're at an impasse. 


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