More than just a requirement of etiquette, fairmindedness is based on these important realities: Everyone is capable of error; generally, in complex issues the truth does not lie entirely on either side of the argument; and familiar views often seem superior even when they are not.

The reversal of the direction of the traditional peephole gaze (we see the looker, not the lookee) is only part of this painting's correspondences to Eh Joe; consider, too, the distantiation created by the two focuses: […]

[…] he couldn't see the end of the human sea: before him were twenty-five thousand people in fluo, stripey ravey gear.

John stood Laura up at the movie theater.