@philosophyexp Pretty sure that's a mettyfor. If you want to argue against it, argue against the notion that history is always progress.
All this complacent, self-flattering "we're on the right side of history" stuff. History doesn't have sides: it does its own bloody thing.
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@mollydot But that's precisely what I'm arguing against (see my previous tweet to@NotungSchwert). The metaphor is parasitic on that idea. -
@philosophyexp Ah. Wasn't clear. -
@mollydot I tried to express it with the "complacent" thing. But 140 characters... :) -
@philosophyexp It does seem like marriage equality is going in the progress direction in many countries though. Not Uganda.... -
@mollydot Right, but who knows what the situation will be in 50 years, etc. People at the end of the 19th Century thought they...
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@PhilosophyExp As if it's the civil rights movement! No, a pro-feminist guy said something minor they didn't like. History in the making! ;) -
@NotungSchwert But also progressive gains can easily be reversed. It's happened before in history. It can happen again. -
@PhilosophyExp But Karl Marx told me... ;)
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@PhilosophyExp and how do you know that? It may be a rationally or materially determined whole, but may have a direction -
@ak51013 True, but that precludes it doing its own thing only if you're an incompatibilist about free will and determinism... ;)
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@PhilosophyExp could do its own thing in compatibilist or incompatibilist systems, but the question is: does it? You say it does. Why/Why~?
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@PhilosophyExp so we should rather say "on the right side of future consensus"?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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