The biggest casualty of our entire discourse now taking place in prescriptive, exhortatory mode--other than ennobling every dim cretin online with a cause--is that it makes thinking about thinking impossible, which is where intellectual life really lives.
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Empathy doesn't necessarily lead to sympathy. It might inspire contempt when the other's POV is fully grasped. But what's common now is contempt due to cluelessness: neither side really understands the other, thus the focus on delegitimizing rather than debunking beliefs.
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And no solution in sight...
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Understanding ideas is the only way to weed out the bad ones. We should never (95% of the time) immediately cast aside bad ideas. You have to get to know it first to disprove it even if your gut was right to cast it aside in the first place
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maybe this is why the internet is so fascinated by cucks
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In a way, this makes those who have either or both more powerful, in that their ability is rarer.
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That said, obviously I agree that the current mode of discourse is pretty awful. I feel like you'd have done a bunch of reading on how this moves over history-what are the mechanisms by which the mode of discourse shifts?
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If only there were a group trying to have a free exchange of ideas, and promoting real thinking in public...
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