I've been thinking that we could probably use bespoke offramps for cults, but it seemed obvious to me that they'd need to be written by people who'd left those exact cults, articulating new views that actually transcend & include the old views, not just pay lip service
Bespoke offramps written by people who left the cult
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these are obviously going to be a lot less opinionated towards a lateral viewpoint than the permission structure versions eg for vax might say something more honest like "yeah, there are risks. I eventually decided it was worth it, but it's a tough call"
if you actually understand someone's actual experience & values, you can actually engage with them and help them figure out what's actually good for them, which is a very different kind of move
it could be that some of the people someone might be trying to influence don't actually have a deep take on the situation, they just have a bit of rhetoric that resonates with some aspect of their experience, and are thus easily given a new one but twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
overall this offramps thing seems like it could comprise a whole sub-department of the Memetic Mediation Division of the Metamodern Post-propaganda Project
a link to some of my earlier speculation on this topic, though I don't go into much depth there:
usefully working with disagreements requires understanding that different people have different context and that this necessarily informs how they see things your view is as obviously wrong to them as theirs is to you
