Misogyny is to misandry as illiteracy is to innumeracy. Nearly everyone understands that misogyny and illiteracy are undesirable, without which the world would be better. By contrast, among some of the chattering class, both misandry and innumeracy have a strange, ugly cachet.
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Makes me think where we see similar. Someone mentioned science; I also see it with philosophy, especially scientists who bash philosophy, not understanding the scientific method itself *is* pure philosophy. It's not mere "philosophical illiteracy," it's bizarre antipathy.
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Excellent point. Anecdote: I once told a handful of "colleagues" (college profs) that I began every new program with several hours of epistemology, because understanding how we make claims of truth is necessary to do science. They were baffled, thought it a waste of time.
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Because I am me, I am having a completely unrelated and separate discussion right now with a friend about epistemology, and I just told him how I always start with that, and people often go wrong when they don't. 1/
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As you know, humans are more about self-defense than truth. If I adopt a belief and then try to justify it, I will, because I am defending my belief. That's how we work. In seminary terms, it's eisegesis instead of exegesis. We have to fight it, if we care about truth. 2/2
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Huh. I don't see that much, but my professional area is software. Thanks.
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If the "proud-to-be-innumerate" crew reach software, we're definitely doomed. The final straw, the 8,764th horseman of the apocalypse, etc etc.
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I laugh to think about how you don't already think our software has doomed us. :-)
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Especially disturbing and common is law-sellers who "write" laws to regulate the Internet, bragging about computer illiteracy.
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