It's a curious situation that blank-slate ideology is becoming more de rigueur in certain circles at exactly the point in history when the most interesting discoveries in the other direction are being made. I believe it's a coincidence, but maybe not.
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Perhaps, as evidence grows that a theory is wrong, professing that theory *increases* in value as it acquires the function of loyalty signaling. (Professing something which is objectively right does not signal loyalty; it’s cheap) (adapting from “The Elephant in the Brain”)
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"the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later...the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense"1984
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READ ANOTHER BOOK
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