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36 lines
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Objective truth exists. But this doesn’t mean we can run society on it.
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Baked into a James Lindsay-style argument about "objective truth" is the idea that society should be completely rational; that group actions should only be determined through logic and fact.
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What does this imply?
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That we are domesticated, of course.
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It implies that we only act after our intentions have been communicated to others.
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If our group says everything we want before we act, and lists all the pros and cons of different actions, and only acts when we are certain we are correct… we are completely domesticated. No society would be afraid of us, because they would always know what we are going to do. Because we always seek social permission before we act.
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Logic and fact are real. Nobody should deny this. But it is possible to spend too much time on them.
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Humans need to eat. We need shelter. We need safety.
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We need to keep our land.
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In the course of obtaining these things, rationality and truth are only useful as far as they help with the mission. They are a tool.
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And, therefore, if a man like James Lindsay says that we have subjective reasons for our politics - well, of course we do. We are humans. We are creatures. We have loves and fears; hates and wants. We have needs beyond mere logic.
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Logic is not the goal - survival is. Life is. Health is. Happiness is.
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It is, in fact, a great and remarkable con that "conservatives" have convinced our people of the opposite. They have convinced so many of us that the system - the corpus of logical thought and technology that rests on our land - is the point of Life.
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They have convinced us that the point of Life is to communicate our actions before we take them, and always obtain social consensus.
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No.
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Life is the point of Life.
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Health, reproduction, energy, and vitality are the point. If any thing does not provide for our Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness, it is supposed to be torn down. Remember?
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And that includes the system they made. |