I am very, very frustrated that my timeline is now a shouting match between the scientific method vs. indigenous knowledge/subjective truth. Frustrated by "rationalism" vs. "grievance studies." Frustrated with ideological purity, smug self-righteousness, and raging contempt.
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Frustrated, above all, that this social/academic environment has transformed me into one of those people I used to detest: someone who wants room for more intellectual honesty and risk. More truth to power that doesn't follow a predetermined script. More willingness to be wrong.
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I have been very, very wrong about a lot of things that I was very, very rigid and dogmatic about in some previous version of my life. Indeed, several times I have managed to be very wrong ***more than once*** on the same issue in different ways at different times. And still am.
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If I'd followed a more traditional academic OR a more traditional political path, I know absolutely that I would have doubled down on whatever wrong-ness struck me as most right at that particular moment in time & lived happily bathed in sweet, sweet confirmation bias.
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Tweet-storming about this is a waste of time, I realize. But I feel increasingly intellectually isolated in a zero-sum ideological world and it's starting to get to me. And the shape of this polarization is shitty for inquiry, discovery, understanding, courage, and empathy.
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Fin. I'm gonna go burn some shit under the full moon. BECAUSE SCIENCE.
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