Dave -
As for me, I'm not irritated with your keeping these discussions
going.
I *am* irritated with the larger (cross-domain, national/global)
discussion of "Truthiness" and the various bimodal fallacies
introduced thereby.
Science and the Scientific Method, for example, have built into
them a certain kind of contingency which is as absolute as
Religion's *lack of contingency* (Absolute Truth). This leads
Creationists/PseudoSciencers/AntiSciencers/FlatEarthers/Deniers to
use the truism from science "It's just a theory" as a bludgeon to
beat out a hole in the conversation to plop down their
received-knowledge and/or made-up-shit into, as if it were made of
the same stuff as what it is displacing.
Conversely (and I think this is where you are prone to harp), the
Establishment (you pick your domain: Science, Religion, Politics,
Society and subdomain:Physics/Chemistry/Biology,
Ibrahamic/Vedic/Pagan/Animist, Red/White/Blue/Green/Purple,
Authoritarian/Libertine/Egalitarian/Anarchic) vs
radical/progressive views on the same subjects yields a whole
other false-dichotomy.
Yet I often hear these arguments (barely concealed?) in the
larger discourse...
I will try to follow this up with some questions/observations about PostModernism and a reflection on the ways it has been "weaponized" by the unlikely? folks like Stephen Bannon?
- Steve
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