thread: 2005-06-16 : The Forge and Me
On 2005-06-21, Vincent wrote:
Ed: "So there is only one theory at the Forge, and everyone of any consequence (e.g. John Kim) agrees with it, whether they think they do or not? This theory consists of "conclusions we've drawn," where "we" is the "informed" people at the Forge?"More like, the disagreement of anybody (of consequence or not) with any particular conclusion we've drawn doesn't invalidate the theory (yes, the conclusions we've drawn generally) as a whole, nor indeed that particular conclusion itself.
"We" is the people in authority over the theory. Really, at the Forge "we" is Ron, just like here "we" is me. But I've won enough disagreements with him, and confirmed my understanding fully enough with him - and a bunch of others of us have too - that I count us as shared authorities. Maybe that's self-aggrandizement.
Anyway, as far as disagreements go, it falls upon the disagreer to convince us. When I disagree, it falls on me to convince the rest! I've done that a couple of times, like I say that's how come I count myself a shared authority.
One day, having failed to convince us, a disagreer might go on to create a whole rival theory, with its own gang of authorities. It might be me, who knows! It hasn't happened yet, though, that I've seen.
Still shitstormy?
