To your point concerning philosophers... what if before modernity, some people with autism were just called philosophers? It really makes you wonder. What if the driving force behind language evolution was the insights garnered by those who felt outside of the nuclear social order, and thus constructed their own explanations for things. Not to say that they were always right...
@@Robert_McGarry_Poems Very interesting point. Hopefully the philosophical insights could stand on their own merit, and be defended regardless of the means by which they were achieved (biological anomaly, sociological contingencies, psychological conditions). I agree with your general sentiment regarding the center/periphery distinction and the general idea that generative insights come from the periphery of the social order.
I fought wild fire for years. I would say that you both need to broadcast and build rapport. The morning weather briefing and the after action review, as minimally involved as they might have been, were probably two of the most important aspects of grounding a routine. That automatically makes it easier for people to buy in on their own terms.
I had the pleasure of working with international exchange fire crews from Australia once. They were trained to walk on flat ground forever. In fact, they have soft bodied flat bottomed boots, no heel. Here, in Oregon, we are trained to hike up and down the cascades and rockies. But generally, don't go very far. Our boots are very rigid and have at least an inch of heel. Fire still burns the same way. Thanks for humoring me. P.S. it just so happens that a New Zealand crew was there at the same time... that was fun to watch.
I think pragmatism describes me better than anything else I have ever read.
To your point concerning philosophers... what if before modernity, some people with autism were just called philosophers? It really makes you wonder. What if the driving force behind language evolution was the insights garnered by those who felt outside of the nuclear social order, and thus constructed their own explanations for things. Not to say that they were always right...
@@Robert_McGarry_Poems Very interesting point. Hopefully the philosophical insights could stand on their own merit, and be defended regardless of the means by which they were achieved (biological anomaly, sociological contingencies, psychological conditions). I agree with your general sentiment regarding the center/periphery distinction and the general idea that generative insights come from the periphery of the social order.
I fought wild fire for years. I would say that you both need to broadcast and build rapport. The morning weather briefing and the after action review, as minimally involved as they might have been, were probably two of the most important aspects of grounding a routine. That automatically makes it easier for people to buy in on their own terms.
I had the pleasure of working with international exchange fire crews from Australia once. They were trained to walk on flat ground forever. In fact, they have soft bodied flat bottomed boots, no heel. Here, in Oregon, we are trained to hike up and down the cascades and rockies. But generally, don't go very far. Our boots are very rigid and have at least an inch of heel. Fire still burns the same way. Thanks for humoring me.
P.S. it just so happens that a New Zealand crew was there at the same time... that was fun to watch.
the badphilosophy to badscience pipeline is real
Absolutely! The active, ongoing repression of philosophy by bad science might also be a real thing.