Agreed. "Just asking questions about environmental interventions" is probably dangerous because such ideas have hurt people (and continue to do so).
So, people in positions of power should not be able to ask questions about socialism, which has hurt and continues to hurt people?https://twitter.com/jgschraiber/status/1229830639446179840 …
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As long as they have enough historical literacy to differentiate totalitarian socialism and democratic socialism. Most do not.
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Lots of people think Sweden’s socialism is totalitarian. How can we know?
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*Just*. You cannot *just* ask questions. The asking of questions shapes the landscape of thought, guiding how we dedicate cognitive and material resources—obviously! That's the entire point of them! Failing to acknowledge that as real power is irresponsible, to say the least.
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"Is Geoffrey Miller really a child molster?" I ask, purely out of curiosity. My platform is small, my resources few and my sarcasm obvious, so this question is unlikely to have any effect on your life. Surely you can imagine how different power dynamics could change that.
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The idea of “decoupling” happens all the time in academia and intellectuals are good at it, which probably also explains why intellectuals suck at the real world.
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I wish these people would just articulate whether their endgame is "everyone defers to a utilitarian godhead/hivemind" or "let's just have an all-out war among people of different worldviews."
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perhaps they should first be asking questions about the system that enabled their power? but that would never happen.
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Is the US suffering from the overabundance of "socialism", whatever that is?
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