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10 November 2012 10:38:36PM
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Everyone has a perspective that differs somewhat from everyone else's. Perspectives are taken from points that exist in a continuous, multi-demensional space, with directions and optics that are also points in vast spaces. There simply isn't a perspective that is equal to another.
But, see, it doesn't matter how different any perspective is from another, what matters is the evidence available, and whether your understanding can be made understandable to others based on that evidence. This perspective is known as "Death of the Author", check it out.
As for Penny, that she didn't understand the suffering she caused is what's the most damning to me. She didn't even realize her victims were human. They were in the outgroup, and so they somehow didn't count. And that is simply a particular instance of the more general problem with TBBT.
As for her making amends, she only did so reluctantly and because her friends (with whom she has more of a servant-master relationship, and who had been bullied when they were younger) urged her to. As far as I could tell from reading her non-verbal language, she didn't actually feel the slightest remorse, shame, or guilt. She's stuck between the pre-conventional and conventional stages of moral development, and never made it to post-conventional.
Comment author:quixtar
11 November 2012 04:27:32AM
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Why doesn't it matter? The article you linked doesn't it seem to explain this aside from asserting that "Books are meant to be read, not written." Barthes himself appears to have thought the point of focusing on the reader's (or, in this case, viewer's) reaction rather than the author's intent was to promote ideological goals which I do not share-- "to refuse God and his hypostases, reason, science, the law." While God is not exactly popular on LessWrong and opinions on the law vary, science and reason are surely things we care about. Why endorse a theory of criticism whose purpose is to reject them?
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Everyone has a perspective that differs somewhat from everyone else's. Perspectives are taken from points that exist in a continuous, multi-demensional space, with directions and optics that are also points in vast spaces. There simply isn't a perspective that is equal to another.
But, see, it doesn't matter how different any perspective is from another, what matters is the evidence available, and whether your understanding can be made understandable to others based on that evidence. This perspective is known as "Death of the Author", check it out.
As for Penny, that she didn't understand the suffering she caused is what's the most damning to me. She didn't even realize her victims were human. They were in the outgroup, and so they somehow didn't count. And that is simply a particular instance of the more general problem with TBBT.
As for her making amends, she only did so reluctantly and because her friends (with whom she has more of a servant-master relationship, and who had been bullied when they were younger) urged her to. As far as I could tell from reading her non-verbal language, she didn't actually feel the slightest remorse, shame, or guilt. She's stuck between the pre-conventional and conventional stages of moral development, and never made it to post-conventional.
Why doesn't it matter? The article you linked doesn't it seem to explain this aside from asserting that "Books are meant to be read, not written." Barthes himself appears to have thought the point of focusing on the reader's (or, in this case, viewer's) reaction rather than the author's intent was to promote ideological goals which I do not share-- "to refuse God and his hypostases, reason, science, the law." While God is not exactly popular on LessWrong and opinions on the law vary, science and reason are surely things we care about. Why endorse a theory of criticism whose purpose is to reject them?