as you can see I’m very woke
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Beware, you're starting to get lost in a kind of boring hyper-meta performance art like South Park sarcastaball. I'm basically assuming a Hegelian dialectical framework of ideological creative destruction to speculate here
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responding to “plurality of absolutes” (which I think is damaging) and not being sarcastic so much as Socratic
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Newer plurality can replace an older, smaller one. Mass extinctions = dinosaur plurality getting replaced by mammal plurality for eg. Punctuated equilibrium theory of ideological evolution.
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stratification / heirarchy of ideology implies a universal metric to guage competing ideologies. plurality of absolutes means "we can and must live within disagreements over what is true". can we believe in both the latter and the former? is plurality it's own universalism?
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No you're confusing evolutionary success with hierarchical ranking. Ascent-of-man fallacy. Mammals just out survived dinos
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OP said: "If an economic conflict lasts longer than 30 yrs, ideological superiority determines outcome." testing this implies by historical comparison implies defining ideological superiority
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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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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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if we teach kids, "a is true" + "b is true" when a and b are seriously mutually incompatible, we halt inquisition at a very shallow level
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I think you're treating PoA as normative when in fact it is historically descriptive as an increasing trend. You never teach kids that way. They discover the conflict by exploring multiple bright worlds and forming responses. Like you did.
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