The position I most strongly endorse today (like all days) is radical skepticism about one’s own beliefs.
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Who am I to know anything — especially in a domain as hot and noisy as politics?
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Who aren't you? What's the point of this skepticism? (And isn't it essentially self-contradictory?)
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The point of skepticism, for me, is to continue learning. If I don’t embrace that I might be wrong, I won’t really listen to other ideas.
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First, I respect that. Second, I think that politics has a different model for knowledge. I believe "truth" in politics is a moving synthesis of opinions. You don't have to be right. You just share your vantage point. That's probably too idealistic, but that's how I think of it.
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Yeah I wasn’t making an argument that one shouldn’t engage in politics. Just that one should do it with a lot of epistemic humility.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” is the main problem with this
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I suppose politics is a domain in which we are particularly susceptible to mistaking beliefs for knowledge, given the unusually high rate of bad information provided by those with more or less nakedly self-interested agendas.
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