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So the danger of your friend lending you a complete bound volume of The Objectivist Newsletter (1962-1965) is that you might fall down the Objectivist drama rabbit-hole.
( content note: old and new Objectivist arguments )CheckingPremises also led me to "Quality Control in Movements" which suggests a taxonomy of available "tools for individuals who are trying to minimize the effect of counter-productive members of a movement". I'll reword it a little:
That last bit is actually a useful addition, for me, to the thinking I was collecting in this MetaFilter post about call-outs and activist communities.
I get so much reassurance from reading the minutes of these old fallings-out. Humans.
( content note: old and new Objectivist arguments )CheckingPremises also led me to "Quality Control in Movements" which suggests a taxonomy of available "tools for individuals who are trying to minimize the effect of counter-productive members of a movement". I'll reword it a little:
- Shunning, blacklisting, and/or boycotting the person
- Reporting bugs to the person (public and private) (with a reminder that you can't simultaneously shun and bug-report)
- Pre-emption: explicitly okaying diversity of perspectives on non-core issues; signal-boosting good information sources; signal-boosting warnings about the person
That last bit is actually a useful addition, for me, to the thinking I was collecting in this MetaFilter post about call-outs and activist communities.
I get so much reassurance from reading the minutes of these old fallings-out. Humans.
