Tim wrote:
<<You don't know that your peceptions of others can limit you? (Oh, I find
that quite hard to believe! ;-) >>
I know they "can" -- I just didn't know what you were specifically getting at in this case.
<<If you and I had met for the first time in person rather than in text, as
we
did, would our ideas have received on the same footing with one another?>>
I'm just not getting it. What ideas are you talking about?
<<Inter-tribal relations will always be a bit dicey. As you must be aware,
in
about half of the businesses in your own neighborhood the members of the
suit-wearing tribe are the ones who's appearence "distances them" and makes
their ideas "more likely to be dismissed without consideration" over those
of the peirced, blue-haired tribe.>>
I have a very different perception of the demographics of Belltown, but that's beside the point. You seem to be pointing out that distancing cuts both ways, and of course it does. But if I'm selling something the burden is on me to create the rapport.
<<Each tribe has it's own markings and aesthetic, as well as a mythology
about
why those other from the other tribes act/dress/behave as they do. (A
mythology which usually frames the motivations of "them" in less than
favorable terms--surprise! surprise!). Only seeing the world through your
own tribe's aesthetic and myths can easily limit the variety of memes one
can become exposed to (and therefore, take advantage of).>>
All true. But there's no shortage of memes. The problem is selection. My heuristic for selection is to model people with lives I like.
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