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<p>Jon - <br>
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<p>Thanks for this expanded conception/treatment/insight into
"scope" which also invokes point of view, cultural
embedding/embodiment, etc.<br>
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<p>Saul Steinberg's iconic "View from 9th Ave" never gets old for me
and provides an excellent geopolitical/social metaphorical source
domain for thinking about these issues.<br>
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<p>I believe that being *visual* creatures, it is "natural" that
things reduce in importance/relevance in a 1/R (distance)
relation. In the immortal words of the American Iconic Indian
Fighter ("Genocidal Maniac"), "don't shoot until you see the
whites of their eyes!" <br>
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<p>The fact that such distance (euclidean as well as non-euclidean
as well as network) is a heuristic for "otherness" seems very much
implicit in life itself, most familiarly among visual creatures,
less so for audio, and even less so for chemical (smell/taste) and
least for tactile (if I am not touching it, it doesn't exist?).</p>
<p>Implicit in Chimamanda's single story about not-single-stories is
that there are other dimensions to distance than the
physical/kinshipLinguisticNetworks that "distance" us from one
another (people, animals, geography and other life-forms). I
don't know what to do with this awareness exactly, but it seems to
leaven or balance the *judgement* against those who appear myopic
in their apprehension of the world. It is somewhat about
priorities.</p>
<p>In my rant/rave about emergent collective consciousness, the
ability to apprehend "Other" at a "Distance" more better is an
adaptive trait, yet we also cannot afford to let that overwhelm
circumstances like "relevance" for which proximity is a mild
proxy. It is about dynamic (re)prioritization I suppose.</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/9/21 8:11 AM, Jon Zingale wrote:<br>
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TED talk with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on scoping,
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