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We began to make significant progress in knowledge during the modern period when various intellectual & political developments caused us to devise a system in which people with different opinions got together & argued them out with an expectation they would use evidence & reason.
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The consequent development of science & technology & the formation of secular liberal democracy & individual freedoms & expertise made things a lot better. This system, this thinking, this process is not masculine. It is not white. It is not western. They belong to humanity.
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It is not perfect but it is the best way & it is self-refining. The idea that we need to stop trying to separate what can be established to be (provisionally) true from what we feel & intuit & give in to our arrogant tendency to think we can construct reality with words is awful.
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Do not let post/metamodernists tell you this is a new & productive way of getting at knowledge which breaks down false constructs rooted in evidence & reason (often known as the 'correspondence model). It is as old as humanity & we took steps to overcome it for a reason.
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"We as a species"? No. Early human development intuitive awareness/ connected knowing/ parts of brain needed for this highly developed. Some cultures still the case. "Civilisation" esp Patriarchal Western thought rewarded/encouraged analytical thought above other.
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Yeah, what a burden civilisation is. If only we could all return to being noble savages and intuitive beasts in touch with our inner 'whole' selves.
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And have a life expectancy of 35 years, and have six children in ten die in their infancy, and be wiped away by wars, famines, and natural disasters. Those who want are welcome to go. I will stay in 21st century society. And I guess I am not alone.
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I agree that evidence is worth more than intuition & emotion, but the latter still have a powerful effect on the world, so understanding them matters. When trying to do this, you're into the realm of deep psychology where direct evidence isn't available & reason doesn't apply
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I so very much wish humans were more rational. We’d go further, quicker.
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