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^delete that, AniX; that link is associated with the malware Suspicious CloudLast edited by Tazaro on Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:20 pm, edited 2 times in total.ShowMaybe Subservience to Protocol isn't tantamount to Solution to Problem ...
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TheIrishPope Jack of All Trades
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In Tilly’s view, we rely on four general categories of reasons. The first is what he calls conventions—conventionally accepted explanations. Tilly would call “Don’t be a tattletale” a convention. The second is stories, and what distinguishes a story (“I was playing with my truck, and then Geoffrey came in . . .”) is a very specific account of cause and effect. Tilly cites the sociologist Francesca Polletta’s interviews with people who were active in the civil-rights sit-ins of the nineteen-sixties. Polletta repeatedly heard stories that stressed the spontaneity of the protests, leaving out the role of civil-rights organizations, teachers, and churches. That’s what stories do. As Tilly writes, they circumscribe time and space, limit the number of actors and actions, situate all causes “in the consciousness of the actors,” and elevate the personal over the institutional.
Then there are codes, which are high-level conventions, formulas that invoke sometimes recondite procedural rules and categories. If a loan officer turns you down for a mortgage, the reason he gives has to do with your inability to conform to a prescribed standard of creditworthiness. Finally, there are technical accounts: stories informed by specialized knowledge and authority. An academic history of civil-rights sit-ins wouldn’t leave out the role of institutions, and it probably wouldn’t focus on a few actors and actions; it would aim at giving patient and expert attention to every sort of nuance and detail.
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Tilly argues that we make two common errors when it comes to understanding reasons. The first is to assume that some kinds of reasons are always better than others—that there is a hierarchy of reasons, with conventions (the least sophisticated) at the bottom and technical accounts at the top. That’s wrong, Tilly says: each type of reason has its own role.
Tilly’s second point flows from the first, and it’s that the reasons people give aren’t a function of their character—that is, there aren’t people who always favor technical accounts and people who always favor stories. Rather, reasons arise out of situations and roles. Imagine, he says, the following possible responses to one person’s knocking some books off the desk of another:
1. Sorry, buddy. I’m just plain awkward.
2. I’m sorry. I didn’t see your book.
3. Nuts! I did it again.
4. Why did you put that book there?
5. I told you to stack up your books neatly.
The lesson is not that the kind of person who uses reason No. 1 or No. 2 is polite and the kind of person who uses reason No. 4 or No. 5 is a jerk. The point is that any of us might use any of those five reasons depending on our relation to the person whose books we knocked over. Reason-giving, Tilly says, reflects, establishes, repairs, and negotiates relationships. The husband who uses a story to explain his unhappiness to his wife—“Ever since I got my new job, I feel like I’ve just been so busy that I haven’t had time for us”—is attempting to salvage the relationship. But when he wants out of the marriage, he’ll say, “It’s not you—it’s me.” He switches to a convention. As his wife realizes, it’s not the content of what he has said that matters. It’s his shift from the kind of reason-giving that signals commitment to the kind that signals disengagement. Marriages thrive on stories. They die on conventions.
Consider the orgy of reason-giving that followed Vice-President Dick Cheney’s quail-hunting accident involving his friend Harry Whittington. Allies of the Vice-President insisted that the media were making way too much of it. “Accidents happen,” they said, relying on a convention. Cheney, in a subsequent interview, looked penitently into the camera and said, “The image of him falling is something I’ll never be able to get out of my mind. I fired, and there’s Harry falling. And it was, I’d have to say, one of the worst days of my life.” Cheney told a story. Some of Cheney’s critics, meanwhile, focussed on whether he conformed to legal and ethical standards. Did he have a valid license? Was he too slow to notify the White House? They were interested in codes. Then came the response of hunting experts. They retold the narrative of Cheney’s accident, using their specialized knowledge of hunting procedure. The Cheney party had three guns, and on a quail shoot, some of them said, you should never have more than two. Why did Whittington retrieve the downed bird? A dog should have done that. Had Cheney’s shotgun been aimed more than thirty degrees from the ground, as it should have been? And what were they doing in the bush at five-thirty in the afternoon, when the light isn’t nearly good enough for safe hunting? The experts gave a technical account.-
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plant_kingdom = ([ "garlic": ({"/class/mage/obj/reagent",0,}), "parsnip": ({"/class/mage/obj/reagent",1,}), "clover": ({"/class/mage/obj/reagent",2,}), "ginseng": ({"/class/mage/obj/reagent",3,}), "lotus": ({"/class/mage/obj/reagent",4,}), "nightshade": ({"/class/mage/obj/reagent",5,}), "mandrake": ({"/class/mage/obj/reagent",6,}), "nux volcana": ({"/class/mage/obj/reagent",7,}), "whiteleaf": ({"/w/dawg/herb/whiteleaf",}), "pipeweed": ({"/class/ranger/obj/pipeweed",}), "greenleaf": ({"/w/redwolf/scythe/obj/greenleaf",}), "potato": ({"/d/Farm/obj/potato",}), "herbs": ({"/class/ranger/obj/herb",}), "tomato": ({"/w/angstrom/tribe/objects/tomato",}), "mushroom": ({"/class/ranger/obj/mushroom",}), "mushrooms": ({"/class/ranger/obj/mushroom",}), "banana": ({"/class/ranger/obj/banana",}), "bananas": ({"/class/ranger/obj/banana",}), "sugarcane": ({"/class/ranger/obj/sugarcane",}), "figs": ({"/class/ranger/obj/figs",}), "oats": ({"/class/ranger/obj/oats",}), "grain": ({"/class/ranger/obj/grain",}), "nuts": ({"/class/ranger/obj/nut",}), "coconut": ({"/class/ranger/obj/coconut",}), "rice": ({"/class/ranger/obj/rice",}), "root": ({"/class/ranger/obj/root",}), "flower": ({"/w/kosh/money/obj/flower",}), "lettuce": ({"/w/bytre/isle/castle/obj/lettuce",}), "watermelon": ({"/w/bytre/isle/castle/obj/waterm",}), "onion": ({"/w/llanfear/rdale/obj/onion",}), "radish": ({"/w/siawn/excler/objects/radish",}), "peppers": ({"/w/silverfish/vfields/objs/peppers",}), "pear": ({"/w/silverfish/vfields/objs/pear",}), "peach": ({"/w/silverfish/vfields/objs/peach"}), "passionfruit": ({"/w/silverfish/vfields/objs/passionfruit",}), "peas": ({"/w/lykos/farm/objects/peas",}), // ? "turnip": ({"/w/lykos/farm/objects/turnip",}), // ? "apple": ({"/w/ricochet/fort/obj/apple",}), "orange": ({"/w/iop/station/objects/orange",}), "grapes": ({"/w/dawg/desert/city/obj/grapes",}), "grape": ({"/w/dawg/desert/city/obj/grapes",}), "papaya": ({"/w/firebird/storage/fruit_papaya",}), "mango": ({"/d/Vvillage/obj/mango",}), "carambola": ({"/w/flea/griffin/obj/carambola",}), // ? "carrot": ({"/w/siawn/excler/objects/carrot",}), "jaboticaba": ({"/d/Gemynd/obj/jaboticaba",}), "tamarind": ({"/d/Gemynd/obj/tamarind",}), "okra": ({"/d/Gemynd/obj/okra",}), "soncoya": ({"/d/Gemynd/obj/soncoya",}), "leek": ({"/d/Gemynd/obj/leek",}), "biriba": ({"/d/Gemynd/obj/biriba",}), "chard": ({"/d/Gemynd/obj/chard",}), "soncoya": ({"/d/Gemynd/obj/soncoya",}), "blackberry": ({"/w/kasmune/laskini/food/berry",}), "blueberry": ({"/w/kasmune/sheepfarm/obj/berry",}), "bayberry": ({"/w/jerusulum/antipaladin/obj/bayberry",}), "raspberry": ({"/w/bella/bgarden/objs/food/raspberry",}), "strawberry": ({"/w/bella/bgarden/objs/food/strawberry",}), "kiwi": ({"/w/bella/bgarden/objs/food/kiwi",}), ]);
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