But always adapted to make its adherents feel good about themselves - to blame others for their problems, and to affirm that they are the righteous who should inherit the earth. That’s not truth-telling. It’s not science or philosophy. It’s creating a market.
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Replying to @ProfAFinlayson @dpxton
I'm not sure what or who you are talking about. This sounds a lot like the conservative talking point about responsibility and pulling yourself up by the bootstraps usually aimed at progressives but it probably isn't.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @dpxton
It’s a point about the commodification of knowledge, reducing it to a trade in opinions which people then mistake for intellectual activity and defend because the opinions flatter them.
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Replying to @ProfAFinlayson @dpxton
OK. People tend to do that, certainly. Lived experience and emotionally-resonant narratives seen as truth and objective knowledge denied. We see it most in the populist right and the intersectional left. This is why treating people as individuals is important.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @dpxton
Can you explain your reasons for deriving the final sentence from the previous two? They would seem to me to be contradictory.
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Replying to @ProfAFinlayson @dpxton
Tribal groups take on metanarratives which suit them, whether postmodern or post-truth or religious or whatever. That's why I don't like the idea of an 'intellectual dark web.' These are very different people & should be evaluated as individuals.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @dpxton
You use the word ‘tribal’. What makes one set a ‘tribe’ and one ‘’different people’, to be ‘evaluated individually’?
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Is it not possible to see individuals, identify common features and then conceive of them as a group or class?
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Replying to @ProfAFinlayson @dpxton
Yes, of course. I'd say these people don't fit that in any meaningful way but then I evaluate people by their principles & epistemologies.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @dpxton
Indeed. And we can see where those come from (they didn’t invent the ) and what they do (their uses and effects). Which is why the Jungian mystic and professional atheist belong in the same group.
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I would ask you to explain that but I really don't want to spend any more time on this. You do you.
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