Existism

Existism is a long word for a short instruction: hold all the perspectives at once. Not as a relativist who refuses to take a position — as a thinker who can see why every position is partially correct, including the ones you find offensive.

The protocol has four moves. KNOW that you're right — actually argue your strongest case, no false modesty. UNDERSTAND that the opposite is also right — build the steelman version of the other side. UNIFY them — find the larger frame in which both fit. RECOGNIZE that two equal and opposite truths sum to zero — which is not nihilism, it's the place from which you can act without being captured.

Hoffman's interface theory adds something useful here. If perception is an interface, then so is opinion. Every viewpoint is one rendering of the underlying system, optimized for the fitness landscape that produced it. The other person isn't wrong; they're rendering the same reality on different priors. Treating them as wrong is treating the icon as the file.

‘I am right, you are right, both are right, and neither are right.’ The line sounds like a paradox. It is the only place from which superposed thought can actually be held without collapsing into one side or the other.