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pargentum ([personal profile] pargentum) wrote2010-11-26 04:36 pm

Раз уж вспомнили про мапперов и пакеров

Thinking about Thinking:
With no map of the world that checks out against itself and explains just about everything you can see, it is very hard to be confident about what to do. The approach you have to take in any situation is to cast about frantically until you find a little packet of knowledge that kind of fits (everything has a little bit of daydreaming at its core, but the confused objective is to stop it as soon as humanly possible). Then you list the bits that kind of fit, and you assert that the situation is one of those, so the response is specified by your `knowledge'.

Your friend has happened to grab another packet of `knowledge' and so you begin an `argument' where your friend lists bits of your knowledge that don't fit and says that you are wrong and he is right, and you do the same thing. You don't attempt to build a map that includes both your bits of knowledge and so illuminates the true answer because you don't have access to the necessary faculty of mapping, and anyway, without the experience, it is hard to believe that it is possible in the time allowed. Being devoid of the clarity that comes from a half-way decent map, you would rather do something ineffective by the deadline than something that might even work. Then when things go pear-shaped you say it is bad luck.
В принципе, приведенное здесь описание 'argument' очень хорошо соответствует паттерну типической дискуссии об исторической роли сталина. Скажем, в книжке резуна-Суворова упоминается bit of knowledge, что танк Т-XXL имел пятнадцать ведущих катков, но ведь в книге Сезуна-Руворова сказано, что их было четырнадцать! Мы разоблачили очередную ложь либерал-демократов!!! И это неопровержимо доказывает, что сталин был белый и пушистый.  То, что преступность сталинского режима доказывается вовсе не количеством ведущих катков у конкретной модели танка, сезуна-руворова совершенно не беспокоит, он же нашел bit of knowledge that kind of fit, а на более подробное обсуждение, не говоря уж про обдумывание, у него времени нету, у него танчик стоит недоклеенный.

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