Boghossian is infamous AGAIN for attacking anti-rational pseudo-academic work in what he calls "grievance studies."
He tells @peternlimberg that he's had a deluge of "I never thought I'd say this to you of all people but I'm 100% with you" support from fundamentalists.
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have you read Jane Jacobs? I read her directly instead of through Nassim Taleb and James C Scott, and her _Dark Age Ahead_ is basically what you've been saying. She looks at modern institutions and probes why they are failing, with a few spot on predictions to boot
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Thanks! I know only the name; I’ve downloaded the sample to Kindle.
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Both Occupy and the Tea Party objected to a problem I think is real: monopoly of power through force by a tiny elite. Nothing inherently irrational about that. But "rationalism" has been so closely associated with elite authoritarianism that rebels embrace irrationalism.
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Yes, exactly! I was trying to say that in the post; maybe it didn’t come through
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Yeah. One of my great sources of frustation is that I have these big two foundational areas of knowledge that have informed how I think about everything, and each of them agree on basically only one thing: That the other one is literally Hitler.
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Unfortunately being the one in the middle saying "Um I think it's more complicated than that" does not endear you to people.
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Simply put, rationalism is attractive because it wants to be true, anti-rationalism because it wants to be right. Meta rationalism is subtle, but neither intellectually nor morally compelling. To make it spiritually attractive, you would have to go down the charismatic route
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I think
@ScottAdamsSays idea of filters is more productive. Consensus Buddhism is a filter that stops people from being able to see actual Buddhism, much less Buddhism for Vampires. Politics then becomes the game of using or getting around mass filters.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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At least one part of this is to distinguish between politeness, politics, and theory. What does "feminism" (or any other ism) "mean"? 1/
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The (mostly) non-controversial part is politeness -- behave decently towards the relevant group. 2/
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