so then once one identifies what any give group people want to be unquestionable you have a pretty clear idea of whats false about any given ideology
so one can identify the set of things that are held unquestionable by any ideology and conclude they are all wrong
right?
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I think this is true but fundamentally irrelevant; if an ideology is just a mechanism to produce outcomes that you and your peeps prefer it doesn’t really matter if it’s “true” so long as it works
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I don’t love any idea, but I do love the outcomes adherence to them can produce
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Maybe, but I don’t think the truth or falsehood of axioms is necessarily that self-evident. People can be accidentally right just as they can be willfully wrong.
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it reminds me of something I read once, that the reason there are fanatical Star Wars fans but not fanatical Indiana Jones fans is that IJ is just a solid, well-made fun movie, but Star Wars is a bit ridiculous. so you have to commit to it. Being a fan becomes a statement.
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yes!! also seen: casual fan: "the band's best album is their best album" diehard fan: "the band's best album is their second-worst album"
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The boundary lines between different ideologies are ultimately about things which are unfalsifiable
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A cheeky retort, but if we’re bring an emotion like fervor into the heuristic, a staunch interpretation runs awkwardly into the question, “do you believe that you love your family?”
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if you saw a guy shouting in public about how much he loves his family would that increase or decrease your belief that he probably loves his family? to be cheeky, :)pic.twitter.com/pkoD6MOuF7
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got into an argument with a teacher once about (my view) how the word “believe” must inherently contain a bit of doubt, or subtle acknowledgment of falsehood. we held the poor class hostage for like ten minutes
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It's not that the core claims are false so much as they demand that you ignore information which would contradict them. The axiom always correspond to incomplete but real sets of information.
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