you’re not allowed to view ideologies hierarchically without reproducing white supremacy
Yes and that's not easy to do. Attribution problem. Is Europe overtaking China a) Greek heritage b) Protestant ethic c) rule of law d) linguistic diff?? e) Whiteness f) decentralized polity? Each could be basis for an ideological reading
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Evolutionary psych has same problem. There's like 8 explanations for how humans developed a brain-size advantage over competing similar size mammals (see recent Dunbar paper)
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I am hedging towards a universalism in my thinking, but I don't know what it would look like. I think PoA cannot sustain; not so much the dominant emerges as the plurality blows up. This theme is all over Dostoevsky's writing.
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I think this is a serious problem that has serious implications for our education system. Also problem for whether or not we can live together under same metaphorical roof
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If those beliefs are actually adaptive then they'd win. Ideological superiority has no necessary relation to scientific notions of truth. I don't think it can happen in this case because modern survival depends too strongly on scientific knowledge
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