add 4. if you haven’t done the work to be informed, don’t post. (which i know is implicit for you, udhay).
these are all good conservation of effort (and sanity) rules. as a side comment on “informed” opinion, i am quite amazed how Many Other People have strongly held opinions about taboo subjects such as • what is a “child”, • what is “assault”, • what is a “pedophile”, • whether sex work is or should be legal, • what one’s due diligence responsibilities MUST be when invited to dinner or given a free plane ride by an alleged billionaire who is trying to fund one's research, • whether a Bad Person can ever do good things (before or after they are known to be Bad) … all of which opinions are often applied (with heat) independent of any of the evidence about actual events that occurred and devaluing personal knowledge (even gathered over decades) of various actors in the drama ... and anyone trying to bring in facts or evidence is accused of collaborating, enabling, whitewashing or normalizing perverse behavior (of being a revisionist of history which has not even been written yet.) (udhay, if you would you like me to spout no further on this subject, just say so.) On Sep 15, 2019, 5:08 AM -0700, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]>, wrote: > I saw this line from silklister Heather Madrone on another list, and it got > me thinking (shared with Heather's permission): > > > I have no opinion on Ito and MIT and the Media Lab. I'm not > > interested in doing the work to develop a considered view of that > situation. > > Setting aside the specifics of the Media Lab clusterfuck, this is a > remarkably concise way of conveying that > > 1) It takes *work* to build enough perspective to have an informed opinion > about something; > 2) Having an informed opinion is a good thing; and > 3) Not having an opinion is OK if one can't have an informed opinion. > > Thoughts? > > Udhay > > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
