I have invented another word: isopageism. Noun. The ideal of having all parties involved in a discussion achieve a common understanding. Derived from the colloquial expression “to be on the same page.”
Example: “In the interest of isopageism, should we expect to eat dinner before the party?”
March 16, 2008 14:32
Groannnnnn.
March 16, 2008 14:54
May I suggest the term “isopagination” instead?
This would allow us to reserve “isopageism” and its derivative, “isopageist” to describe one who believes in the value of achieving isopagination.
Usage: “The damn unilateralists and the isopageists will get what’s coming to them soon enough!” cried Niccolo as he prepared to double-cross the minister of finance.
March 16, 2008 15:40
This reminds me of the “reality based community” idea that went around a few years ago. To wit (nytimes magazine):
‘in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Perhaps realityists can be added into this typology of reasonable-ideas-as-religions?
There is only one path and that is the path that you take, but you can take more than one path. Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from its path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from its path, eat the food, eat the path.
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