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{{a|devil|{{image|Lucky Bastard|jpg|A proper little “jailer’s pet”, yesterday.}}}}{{dpn|/lɪvd ɪksˈpɪərɪəns/|n}} | {{a|devil|{{image|Lucky Bastard|jpg|A proper little “jailer’s pet”, yesterday.}}}}{{dpn|/lɪvd ɪksˈpɪərɪəns/|n}} | ||
Knowledge about the world one accumulates by gained first-hand by living through it. Knowledge that is joyously subjective, and not the quasi-objective, pseudo-knowledge by which we are all systematically indoctrinated through social institutions such as the education system, government and the calculating fingers of the media. | Knowledge about the world one accumulates by gained first-hand by living through it. Knowledge that is joyously ''subjective'', and not the quasi-objective, pseudo-knowledge by which we are all systematically indoctrinated through social institutions such as the education system, government and the calculating fingers of the media. | ||
Can get confusing when you consider | Can get confusing when you consider one’s “lived experience” ''includes'' being indoctrinated through social institutions like school, university, work and, well, people who witter on about lived experiences all the time. Like the JC. | ||
In any rate, subjective, and — where, thanks to one or more intersecting marginalisations, | In any rate, subjective, and — where, thanks to one or more intersecting marginalisations, your own lived experience has not been a happy one — a justification for prioritising ''your'' ghastly experience over those of others you adjudge to have been more fortunate than your own when, as a tenured academic, you find yourself lecturing more fortunate people about how badly you have been treated. | ||
It’s a bit circular like that. | It’s a bit circular like that. | ||
===Relevance to the conversation=== | ===Relevance to the conversation=== | ||
An unusual standpoint, is a valuable perspective | An unusual [[standpoint]], is always a valuable perspective to bear in mind when the community discusses, or designs common utilities. The Dutch — being the tallest nation on earth, should consider the lot of those possessed of shorter statures when designing bookshelves. | ||
to bear in mind when the community discusses, or designs common utilities. The Dutch — being the tallest nation on earth, should consider the lot of those possessed of shorter statures when designing bookshelves. | |||
The standpoint of short people is unlikely, past adolescence, to change. It is a permanent fact of biology. This seems equally so of standpoints informed not by physiognomy but history. Especially historical ''[[grievance]]''. As we remark below, one can | The standpoint of short people is unlikely, past adolescence, to change. It is a permanent fact of biology. This seems equally so of standpoints informed not by physiognomy but history. Especially historical ''[[grievance]]''. As we remark below, one can re-narrate, but not ''change'', history. If your great grandfather was a slave, or kept them, there is nothing you can really do about that now. Apologies will sound — and be — disingenuous. | ||
The question arises ''who'' is responsible for ''redressing'' that grievance, and ''what'' they can do to redress it. | The question arises ''who'' is responsible for ''redressing'' that grievance, and ''what'' they can do to redress it. | ||
===Lived experience as a finite game=== | ===Lived experience as a finite game=== | ||
{{standpoint capsule}} | {{standpoint capsule}} | ||