for - greed - game A - linked to success - can we escape from game A? - SRG comment - accumulation perspective of capitalism - climate crisis - Deep Humanity interventions

for - anthropocene - ecological civilization from an earth system perspective - Deliang Chen

for - sustainability - old linear perspective

for - ai - 3rd perspective

for - paper - title - Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness - author - Andrew E. Budson, Ken A Paller - adjacency - memories - sleep - dreams - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC

summary - The authors present a theory of dreaming and sleep that I resonate with, that sleep is a time in which the brain performs unconscious processing of memories, consolidating them by taking advantage of consciousnesss down time to perform massive parallel processing to connect memories together. - dreams are seen as a small conscious byproduct of the massive parallel processing task, and their meaning may have value depending on how we interpret them.

for - progress traps - perspective - Michael Levin

for - perspective - We're stuck here (on earth) - Eric Weinstein

for - perspective - techno-optimist - - aligned to computer modeling of biological systems - simplistic systems poorly modeling complexity

for - perspective - Eric Weinstein - feels we've been stagnant - like - Eric Weinstein - Peter Thiel

for - Eric Weinstein perspective - can't fix this planet

for - Lisa's indescribable experience - gestalt switch - perspective switch

comment - Lisa talks about finding it difficult to describe this experience - When we have entirely new experiences that are radically different from anything we've had before, - we have no reference system to describe it, the words don't exist, while the novel experience does. - This becomes an invitation to extend language, knowing however, that language itself is always dualistic and symbolic

for - Lisa's profound meditative experience - gestalt switch - perspective switch - no words to describe the experience - novel experience, no words exist to describe

comment - Lisa talks about finding it difficult to describe this experience - When we have entirely new experiences that are radically different from anything we've had before, - we have no reference system to describe it, the words don't exist, while the novel experience does. - This becomes an invitation to extend language, knowing however, that language itself is always dualistic and symbolic

for - key insight - excluding space is excluding self - as long as "I" feel separate from "space", I cannot experience oneness

for - futures study - multi-level perspective - MLP

for - Systems perspective - integrate reductionism with global properties - Denis Noble - multi scale competency architecture - Denis Noble - adjacency - multi-scale competency architecture - Michael Levin - Denis Noble advocates for

adjacency - between - multi-scale competency architecture - Michael Levin - Denis Noble advocates for - adjacency relationship - Michael's multi-scale competency architecture is another way to sum up what Denis is saying

for - search - Google - android app "The Voice" translates images into audio signal - from - webcast - Michael Levin - Can we create new senses for humans? - interview - David Eagleman - https://hyp.is/BHS6up09Ee-1qefERFpeQg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCvFgrpfNGM - to - Medium - article Translating vision into sound. A deep learning perspective - Viktor Toth - April 2019 - https://hyp.is/lQL4Yp1MEe-66-dpgenOBA/medium.com/mindsoft/translating-vision-into-sound-443b7e01eced

for - quote / insight - power is being held at the 3rd person perspective, not the fifth or higher person perspective - John Churchill

quote / insight - power is being held at the 3rd person perspective, not the fifth or higher person perspective - John Churchill - (see below) - The problem is is we're not listening to the fifth person perspective physicists, - we're listening to the third person perspective physicists - and mainly because the source of power is located in our planet at third person perspective. - That's where the power band is attempting to hold control

comment - The same is true of politics

for - sacred perspective - embodied - we have lost - John Churchill

for - question - what is meant by first to sixth person perspective? Can he give examples of each? - John Churchill

2023 haben Böden und Landpflanzen fast kein CO2 absorbiert. Dieser Kollaps der Landsenken vor allem durch Dürren und Waldbrände wurde in diesem Ausmaß kaum vorausgesehen, und es ist nicht klar, ob auf ihn eine Regeneration folgt. Er stellt Klimamodelle ebenso in Frage wie die meisten nationalen Pläne zum Erreichen von CO2-Neutralität, weil sie auf natürlichen Senken an Land beruhen. Es gibt Anzeichen dafür, dass die steigenden Temperaturen inzwischen auch die CO2-Aufnahmefähigkeit der Meere schwächen. Überblicksartikel mit Links zu Studien https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/14/nature-carbon-sink-collapse-global-heating-models-emissions-targets-evidence-aoe

for - interesting perspective - Karl Marx - He wasn't principally interested in equality - book - Capitalism: the word and the thing - perspectival knowledge of - Michael Sonenscher - misunderstanding - modern capitalists - misunderstand Karl Marx's work - Michael Sonenscher - Karl Marx and Capitalism - Maximizing each individual's freedom while not trampling on the same aspiration of other individuals within a society

Interesting perspective - Karl Marx wasn't principally interested in equality - Sonenscher offers an interesting interpretation and perspectival knowledge of Karl Marx's motivation in his principal work paraphrase - Marx's thought centered on is interest in individuality and the degree to which in certain respects being somebody who is free and able to make choices about his or her lives and future activities is going to depend on each person's: - qualities - capabilities - capacities - preoccupations - values, etc - For Marx, freedom is in the final analysis something to do with something - particular - specific and - individual w - What matters to me may not matter entirely in the same sort of way to you because ultimately - in an ideal State of Affairs, my kinds of concerns and your kinds of concerns will be simply specific to you and to me respectively - For Marx, the problems begin as is also the case with Rosseau - when these kinds of absolute qualities are displaced by - relative qualities that apply equally to us both - For Marx, things like - markets - prices - commodities and - things that connect people - are the hallmarks of equality because they put people on the same kind of footing prices and productivity - Whereas the things that REALLY SHOULD COUNT are - the things that separate and distinguish people that make each individual fully and and entirely him or herself and - the idea for Marx is that capitalism - which is not a term that Marx used, - puts people on a kind of spurious footing of equality - Getting beyond capitalism means getting beyond equality to a state of effect in which - difference , - particularity, - individuality and - uniqueness - in a certain kind of sense will prevail

comment - This perspective is quite enlightening on Marx's motivations on this part of his work and is likely misconstrued by those mainstream "capitalists" who vilify his work without critical analysis - Of course freedom - within a social context - is never an absolute term. - It is not possible to live in a society in which everyone is able to actualize their full imaginations, something pointed out in the work of two other famous thought leaders of modern history: - Thomas Hobbes observed in his famous work, Leviathan, and - Sigmund Freud also made a primary subject of his ID, Ego and Superego framework. - Total freedom would lead - first to anarchy and then - the emergence within that anarchy of those which possess the most charisma, influence, self-seeking manipulative skills and brutality - surfacing rule by authority - Historically, as democracy attempts to surface from a history of authoritarian, patriarchal governance, - democracy is far from ubiquitous and authoritarian governance is still alive and well in many parts of the world - The battle between - authoritarian governments among themselves and - authoritarian and democratic governments - results in war, violence and trauma that creates the breeding ground for the next generation of authoritarian leaders - Marx's main intent seems to be to enable the individual existing within a society to live the fullest life possible, - by way of enabling and maximizing their unique expression, - while not constraining the same aspiration in other individuals who belong to the same society

for - compare work - without purpose - vs- monastic perspective

compare work - without purpose - vs- monastic perspective - To much work in modernity is felt as work without - purpose or - meaning - In this case, it feels like slavery because there is no joy present in the work - it feels meaningless to the individual - In contrast, in the monasteries if all traditions, the work is contextualised as another state in which the sacred manifests

for - potential disagreement - with - Bernardo Kastrup claim of unnaturality of normative self perspective - with - individual/collective gestalt - Major Evolutionary Transitions towards individuality

for - empathy - deep meaning - universal consciousness perspective - Rupert Spira

for - self - as unified, centralized inner perspective - Michael Levin - adjacency - self - as unified, centralized inner perspective - multi-scale competency architecture - Buddhism - spiritual practice - self actualization - illusory body - illusory self - enlightenment

adjacency - between - self - as unified, centralized inner perspective - multi-scale competency architecture - self actualization - Buddhist practice - illusory body - illusory self - enlightenment - awakening - adjacency relationship - Indeed, from both the mundane and the spiritual, religious perspective, the unified self as a fundamental assumption - "self-development" and "self-actualization" are terms that are only meaningful if there is a unified self - Is the Buddhist ideas of - awakening - enlightenment and \ - penetrating the illusion of self - based on a kind of experiencing of the multi-scale competency architecture itself? - What does "spiritual awakening" mean in the context of multi-scale competency architecture? - For instance, WHO is it that actually awakens? - Is it consciousness from the SAME level, a lower level or ALL levels of the multi-scale competency architecture that a multi-cellular conscious, sentient being such as a human INTERbeCOMing? - If it includes consciousness from lower levels, then it may be billions or trillions of cellular consciousnesses that are awakening to the higher order consciousness it composes!

for - planetary emergency - economic cost of nature - from an insurance perspective - natural capital valuation - from insurance industry perspective - biodiversity - natural capital valuation - from insurance industry perspective - Swiss RE - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) metric - from insurance industry perspective

for - quote - neuroscience - perspective shift - benefits

for - neuroscience - perspectival knowing - why it's important to know other perspectives - perspectival knowing - Abraham Lincoln quote - I don't know that man - I better get to know his perspective

for - question - what's the meaning of life? - a philosophical perspective - John Vervaeke - The meaning crisis

for - personal health - metabolic disease - insulin resistance caused by mitochondria dysfunction - interview - Dr. Robert Lustig - health - dangers of sugar in our diet

summary - Robert Lustig is a researcher and major proponent for educating the dangers of sugar as the root cause of the majority of preventable western disease - He explains how sugar and carbs are a major variable and root cause of a majority of these diseases - It is useful to look at these bodily dysfunctions from the perspective of Michael Levin, in which all these diseases of the body are problems with lower levels of the multi-scale competency architecture - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=michael+levin%2C+multi-scale+competency+architecture

for - impulsive urge - invention - adjacency - progress trap - impulsive urge to invent - Prometheus complex - Gyuri Lajos perspective

Adjacency - between - progress trap - impulsive urge - Gyuri Lajos perspective - Prometheus complex - adjacency statement - It would seem that the the Prometheus complex - is an apt description of that which Gyuri objects to in innovation, namely - innovation for innovation sake - in other words, the impulsive urge merely to know - even if it brings a terrible price

Indexing the world into a commonplace book, zettelkasten, or other means can create new perspectives on the world in which we live. It thereby helps to prevent the sorts of cognitive bias which we might otherwise fall trap to.

This example of Homes indexing crime gives him a dramatically different perspective on crime in the countryside to Watson who only sees the beauty in the story of "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snaHY-vnB-M

Résumé de la vidéo [00:00:00][^1^][1] - [00:58:00][^2^][2] :

Cette vidéo présente le projet de corridor vert de la Septima, une avenue historique et stratégique de Bogota, en Colombie. Le projet vise à transformer cette avenue en un espace public de qualité, intégrant la mobilité durable, l'harmonie écologique et le sens du lieu. Le conférencier, Juan Pablo Caicedo, est le responsable du projet à la mairie de Bogota et il explique les principes, les objectifs, les défis et les opportunités de cette initiative.

Points forts : + [00:03:05][^3^][3] Le contexte et les enjeux du projet * La Septima est une avenue emblématique de Bogota, qui relie le centre historique au nord de la ville * Elle est actuellement en mauvais état, congestionnée, polluée et peu sûre pour les usagers * Plusieurs tentatives de rénovation ont échoué au cours des 25 dernières années, faute de consensus et de vision + [00:10:10][^4^][4] La proposition du corridor vert * Il s'agit d'un projet participatif, qui intègre les besoins et les aspirations des citoyens * Il repose sur trois piliers : la mobilité durable, l'harmonie écologique et le sens du lieu * Il propose de réduire l'espace dédié aux voitures privées, de créer des pistes cyclables et des trottoirs élargis, de mettre en place un transport public électrique et de planter des arbres et des plantes + [00:21:00][^5^][5] La relation avec le concept de ville du quart d'heure * Le conférencier fait référence au concept développé par Carlos Moreno à Paris, qui vise à rapprocher les services et les activités des habitants * Il montre comment le corridor vert peut contribuer à cette vision, en facilitant les déplacements courts et longs, en offrant des espaces publics de qualité et en renforçant la biodiversité * Il souligne l'importance de la participation, de la solidarité et de l'écologie comme principes de la ville du quart d'heure

for - Unherd - Brexit founder - post-left

• UnHerd,
  • a U.K.-based ​“heterodox” opinion website
    • founded by a Brexit supporter,
  • covered the movement in a piece titled ​
    • “Twilight of the American Left.”
• To the post-left,
  • explained contributor Park MacDougald,
• the real U.S. ruling class is a Democratic oligarchy that uses
  • the threat of creeping fascism and
  • white nationalism
• to consolidate power, and deploys
  • “‘identity politics,’ -​‘antiracism,’
  • ​‘intersectionality’ and
  • other pillars of the progressive culture war” as ​
• “mystifications whose function is to
  • demoralize and
  • divide the proletariat.”
• Leftists, in this view, merely serve as that regime’s ​“unwitting dupes.”

unpack - very interesting to unpack from a Deep Humanity perspective.

nazis enforced the creation of aryan archives and forced the destruction of jewish ones, creating an imbalance in how much material there was in order to control the historical narrative

2:00 In the mids of darkness, death, war; humans still can see light, the good, the beauty (stoic philosophy)

Epictetus would say that there are two handle on a situation; you pick the one (see above). This also aligns to the notion that situations are what they are, it is about your reaction.

How do you look at things? Do you only look at the bad, the ugly? Or, do you see the good, the light?

for - talk - David Ray Griffin - time, consciousness and freedom from Whitehead process perspective

This account has a lot of "great men" who were military leaders. I wish there was more on ordinary Americans, like the grunts or the factory workers.

So juvenile delinquency was caused by women working? Couldn't the government have funded good day care programs or have recognized the roles of fathers in raising kids?

Bailey clearly sees strikes as "troublemaking." He praises government leaders throughout. Including more of a "bottom up" perspective would help balance his presentation of US views of the war.

This makes it seem like US intentions were purely selfless. If this was the case, couldn't the US have done more to prevent the Nazis from committing genocide or to prevent Japanese atrocities against the Chinese?

Who is this? What is Bailey's background?

Why does Bailey want to celebrate American democracy so much?

Interesting that Bailey calls the camps "concentration camps" yet he doesn't address the racism that led to the creation of these camps. Was Japanese American loyalty and combat service necessary to prove this was unnecessary?

Calling the Japanese "imperialists" shows that Bailey does not like their actions.

Couldn't one also criticize US colonialism in Hawaii and the Philippines?

Like the "sneak attack" description, calling Pearl Harbor a "treacherous attack" shows how much Bailey dislikes Japan at this time.

origin of the phrase? see: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quot_homines_tot_sententi%C3%A6

apparently from Latin, echoing line 454 of Terence’s Phormio

Or the fuller quotation: - quot homines tot sententiae: suo’ quoique mos - as many men, so many minds: to every one his own way - There are as many opinions as there are people who hold them: each has his own correct way

[[Jorge Arango]] interviews Veronica Erb on Annotating Books

Anecdotal evidence that dyslexia has an overlap with creating links to see a "bigger picture"

• for: perspective shift - modernity to "neo-indigenous"

• question

  • how do you transform fear of the perceived great loss of modernity to the gains of neo-indigenous civilization?
  • we would have to feature the many potential benefits of doing this
  • it can't be just a big loss, but the pros must outweigh the cons

• for: post-modernity - temporary perspective of modernity

• for: reductionism, emptiness, Nora Bateson, complexity, reductionism - Nora Bateson, adjacency, adjacency - reductionism - emptiness

Every book, while holding the same words, will be different based on the context and needs of the individual reader.

• for: transcendent, transcendental, definition - transcendental, Kant - transcendental, phenomenology

• definition: transcendental

  • not what is BEYOND appearances (the usual colloquial meaning of transcend) but what is BELOW appearances
  • in other words, it is the condition of possibilities of these appearances, it is from where appearances appear

• perspective shift: transcendental

  • Until encountering this explanation, I battled with and puzzled over the explanation of the transcendental given by all other authors. I found them overly complex and unintelligible without understanding many other major hidden assumptions
  • In my view, this proves Bilbot's mastery as a an educator on the most profound ideas in philosophy
    • Above all, he has a deep understanding of the salience landscape of his audience, something which almost all other author's and educators miss

Its interesting how it is sharing our own experience. An experience of one self can change the perspective of the world and how one perceives it. Its like a teacher for instance. One could have a terribly behaved 4th grade class and the other could have an exceptional 4th grade class. When placing two classes together you can see an astronomical difference in a multitude of things. Now looking at perspective and experience. One could say, wow I really hate 4th grade and the other could say the opposite. So what could the actually fact on a teachers perspective and what would be relevant or not? due to the experience one may have gone through.

Example of someone (u/HerrRey) who defines zettelkasten as "concept oriented, atomic notes that are linked to each other", but who doesn't use or exclude "IDs or the folgezettel method". Interestingly they feel like they're not getting the "big picture" of their work.

Is there an affordance in these missing pieces that prevents them from seeing the big picture because of what they're missing? Is it just neurodiversity? Are they not creating outputs which connect the small to the big, and thus missing it that way?

Juridical perspective to verify the possibility to consider food as a common good. Being said that Italian constitutional doctrine has not covered this particular aspect. Bringing up the very common, yet taken for granted, concept of 'private' and 'public provided by the constitution into consideration.

3/ Champion your competition’s work<br><br>With his reading list email, on podcasts, in his bookstore, Ryan promotes other books more than his own.<br><br>When asked, he’ll say:<br><br>“Authors think they’re competing with other authors. They’re not. They’re competing with people not reading.”

— Billy Oppenheimer (@bpoppenheimer) August 24, 2022

C. Wright Mills delineates a rough definition of "sociological imagination" which could be thought of as a framework within tools for thought: 1. Combinatorial creativity<br /> 2. Diffuse thinking, flâneur<br /> 3. Changing perspective (how would x see this?) Writing dialogues is a useful method to accomplish this. (He doesn't state it, but acting as a devil's advocate is a useful technique here as well.)<br /> 4. Collecting and lay out all the multiple viewpoints and arguments on a topic. (This might presume the method of devil's advocate I mentioned above 😀)<br /> 5. Play and exploration with words and terms<br /> 6. Watching levels of generality and breaking things down into smaller constituent parts or building blocks. (This also might benefit of abstracting ideas from one space to another.)<br /> 7. Categorization or casting ideas into types 8. Cross-tabulating and creation of charts, tables, and diagrams or other visualizations 9. Comparative cases and examples - finding examples of an idea in other contexts and time settings for comparison and contrast 10. Extreme types and opposites (or polar types) - coming up with the most extreme examples of comparative cases or opposites of one's idea. (cross reference: Compass Points https://hypothes.is/a/Di4hzvftEeyY9EOsxaOg7w and thinking routines). This includes creating dimensions of study on an object - what axes define it? What indices can one find data or statistics on? 11. Create historical depth - examples may be limited in number, so what might exist in the historical record to provide depth.

Reading and studying it all without any regard to the Indigenous culture. Steve Martin is using Western perspectives to attempt to understand non-Western art which has a different basis.

Yates, C., & Feil, E. (2021, February 1). Will coronavirus really evolve to become less deadly? The Conversation. http://theconversation.com/will-coronavirus-really-evolve-to-become-less-deadly-153817

Explanation of Trungpa Rinpoche's Diamond Sliver

Form and Emptiness need each other to exist and be understood. Let's unpack this. All forms can be broken down further and further into smaller and smaller bits...in the quantum mechanical limits, into emptiness. At the micro level, it is so tiny, it is no longer recognizable as form. And all this quantum mechanical soup is what makes up all forms.

So the above is a statement using science, one perspective, which is also a position so also incomplete.It (science) is also propositional.

Shaping is primarily design work. The shaped concept is an interaction design viewed from the user's perspective. It defines what the feature does, how it works, and where it fits into existing flows.

• what the feature does
• how it works
• where it fits into existing flows

Successful problem solving requires having the ability to adaptively and flexibly focus one's attention with respect to the demands of the work. Having a toolbelt of potential methods and combinatorially working through them can be incredibly helpful and we too often forget to explicitly think about doing or how to do that.

This is particularly important in mathematics where students forget to look over at their toolbox of methods. What are the different means of proof? Some mathematicians will use direct proof during the day and indirect forms of proof at night. Look for examples and counter-examples. Why not look at a problem from disparate areas of mathematical thought? If topology isn't revealing any results, why not look at an algebraic or combinatoric approach?

How can you put a problem into a different context and leverage that to your benefit?

The ultimate value of newsletters is their more direct connection to a specific niche audience for which they curate news or content. The value they provide readers is as a filter of their area with some some useful analysis and perspective.

The Spread of the Omicron Variant and Vaccine Effectiveness—January 11, 2022. (2022, January 11). Leger. https://leger360.com/surveys/legers-north-american-tracker-january-11-2022/

Chen, W., & Zou, Y. (2021). Why Zoom Is Not Doomed Yet: Privacy and Security Crisis Response in the COVID-19 Pandemic. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/mf935

Telenti, A., Arvin, A., Corey, L., Corti, D., Diamond, M. S., García-Sastre, A., Garry, R. F., Holmes, E. C., Pang, P., & Virgin, H. W. (2021). After the pandemic: perspectives on the future trajectory of COVID-19. Nature, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03792-w

A change in perspective can be witnessed in this final stanza. From the first line of the first stanza to the fourth stanza, we can observe the narrator's aggressive and defensive manner against his interlocutor, who seemed to rebuke the narrator's love relationship prior to the composition of this poem. Also, it is spoken in either simultaneous (present) or prospective (future) manner in terms of tenses. However, the final stanza introduces a partially retrospective speech (referencing past events), distinguishing itself from the preceding stanzas. Also, it seems unlikely that the narrator is requesting his deprecating interlocutor to call him "You, whom reverend love .... eyes" (last stanza line 1-7). Thus, we can logically suggest that there has been a shift in addressee, and the possible addressee of the final stanza would be the future lovers who perceive John Donne and his lover as saints of love.

Though, the poem is written in conversational style, the characters other than the narrator are deliberately silenced to give a sense of a dramatic monologue by the speaker.

This is a painful burn by the writer Alex Beam.

Perhaps worth modifying for Donald J. Trump?

From the perspective of the American experiment and the evolution of democracy, Donald J. Trump was a dead white male who had the bad luck to still be alive."

I don't agree with this viewpoint. Just like Heraclitus' river, the information in an article or book may not change, but there is a contextual change in the reader, in their thinking, their circumstances, and their time that may give them a different reading or perspective of the same material at later dates.

Of course not all material is actually worth reading more than once either. But for some material a second or third reading may help them create new ideas and new links to prior ideas.

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter. (2020). Twitter. Retrieved 27 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1339855911796543488

Seth Trueger. (2021, May 3). Https://t.co/mKCwcjQfe3 [Tweet]. @MDaware. https://twitter.com/MDaware/status/1389244959757373441

Constantly asking the question "How can I enter pre-existing conversations or scholarship differently" can be useful and refreshing.

Aarts, A. A. (2021). Psychological Science replicates just fine, thanks. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h4byg

Paul Szoldra on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved 26 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/PaulSzoldra/status/1331295152720076800

PrameelaApr. 15, S. E., 2021, & Pm, 2:00. (2021, April 15). As a Ph.D. student, sharing my perspective on social media felt scary—But it’s worth it. Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2021/04/phd-student-sharing-my-perspective-social-media-felt-scary-it-s-worth-it

It took me a while to see this too. Many report that attending law school is really just learning a different way of seeing and approaching the world. IndieWeb has been much like this for me. It provides a different and often useful framing for approaching problems, not just with regard to the web, but to life in general.

To give equal credit to the less "important restaurants" as the one he may be writing this article about, he refers back to more animals, such as a giant panda, which is not important to the ecosystem but is well-known. He gives examples of how famous restaurants have been idle as well, granting a light to the lesser known restaurants which are still important to the New York ecosystem. This metaphor sets up the article in a perspective that is easily understood by readers.

This is also an important thing to remember when reading and evaluating older texts and discoveries.

This critique on English conservatism summarizes the tension between the native and the foreign present through the entire book. It's a critique on the narrow-mindedness of those who conform to social norms without question, and therefore fail to consider perspectives or possibilities which lie outside traditional thought. The missteps in deduction that occur in this book are largely due to arguments on false premises rather than logical fallacies.

How is Franklin so oblivious to the hypocrisy here? What "right" does he have to suspect anybody of being a thief in that case? I believe Collins is trying to push the point that we are quick to take our own knowledge for granted while disregarding this fact for others. Again, another reference to the subjectivity of "truth" and the difficulty in distinguishing it from "belief".

This passage highlights the subjectivity in these narratives as a whole. Franklin believes that everyone would interpret Lucy's actions as that of a madwoman, and it is certainly the case that those whom he surrounds himself with would agree. However, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for Lucy's actions that only women of her and Rosanna's class would know - people who have no voice in these narratives.

The breakdown of these two parts is really important because the narrative itself is written with great detail, but sometimes the medium for it is not as greatly detailed and it sometimes does not turn out as good at the narrative.

In a lot of the movies I have seen, the discourse-time order is very interesting to me. It is interesting to see what happens in the end, in the beginning and vice-versa. Some people might see it as giving away the story first, but I think you're able to connect with the character more than you would in a realistic-time.