Woo is a form of romantic irrationalism, which sprung from the counter-enlightenment. It was always essentially reactionary. Paging Isaiah Berlin!
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something about the authoritarian mind seems to fundamentally reject the idea that nature gets a vote as to what is and isn't real
aug 29, 2025, 3:48 pm • 6 0 • view
I think this is not only incredibly true but also gets the causality backwards.
aug 29, 2025, 3:51 pm • 1 0 • view
yes, agreed - it seems like people become authoritarian the more their narcissism is indulged, and one risk factor is rejecting the limits of reality it's why elderly autocrats seem to crash out, once mortality looms so large...
aug 29, 2025, 3:59 pm • 2 0 • view
There are fundamental constraints on us at a deeper level than concepts like equity and fairness and all that we are empowered to do is to exist within those constraints as best we are able. That's a hard pill to swallow but spitting it back out turns out to be profoundly unhealthy.
aug 29, 2025, 4:10 pm • 2 2 • view
creationists used to trot out personal faults of Darwin as a way of arguing against evolution To a Nazi, Einstein being Jewish means relativity must be wrong... elizabeth holmes promised a product that was physically impossible, and yet people fell for it because she made a good pitch...,
aug 29, 2025, 4:16 pm • 2 1 • view