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I think that's been clear for some time. Fortunately, the contradictions & failings of relativism are so easy to pull apart.

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Perhaps it has been clear, but it doesn't seem like it has ever been quite this accute to me.

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Too many Profs hiding out in colleges in ideological bubbles sharing their ideological fantasies & impregnating impressionable minds.

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too many secular Dharma teachers hiding out in their "rationalist" bubbles, dismissive of structural inequality and oppressive socialization

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That could be true too. What do you suggest they do fella?

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could start by acknowledging that these things exist, show some empathy for the systematically oppressed...

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and realize that "biological" explanations cannot easily be disentangled from the enculturating environment

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I generally agree that the two co-arise: but culture only arises thanks to biology and not vice-versa. Materiality always comes first.

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That said, I am generally of the biological camp since foundational patterns matter a lot.

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You say biology is foundational. A lot of people are claiming it's culture that's foundational. Or systems. Or consciousness.

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All of these can be true on different levels of analysis. In animal life terms, primacy of biology self-evident. We know of no shark cities.

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