Intellectual Dark Web
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For some reason vast majority of people today somehow end up on extreme Right or Left with moderate centrists like myself in surprising minority. Neither side realizes how much they long for religious certainty. Neither side is interested in search for Truth, but rather in embracing more data that proves how their side is right (thus proliferation of those videos showing the current "heroes" of either side in "debates"). Political correctness on one side and complete embrace of biology on another as if we were some sort of ghosts detached from either mind or body (depending on which side of the barricade one chooses to stand). Both sides - including all the Petersonians of the world - fail to notice complexity of the human interactions. Sometimes our biology dominates and other times it's our mind (notice, i didn't necessarily said our intellect) and yet in their pursuit for simplistic truisms, both sides try to claim that it's one or the other.
Needless to say, there is very little "intellectual" there - rather pursuit on representatives of both side of close-minded ideology.
- You point about religious certainty is spot on. I think it was Douglas Murray the said "We may be in the throes of the discovery that the only thing worse....Morning_star
- ...than Religion, is it's absence.
It's telling that you highlight that fact that the Right and Left are always polarised yet you talk about them in exactly...Morning_star - ...those terms. It seems that you describe neither 'side' accurately by using such simple, black & white termsMorning_star
- think the problem is psychological. There has to be ONE over arching truth not millions of wee ones. Having ONE only benifits the minority in power and reasonmugwart
- we are in this state. Also we dont analyses were are thinking comes from. Tihs is another major concern. We are shaped by friends, family, community, 'Power'mugwart
- us working class has been used to fuel the machine for so long. We now have a medium to commutate throughmugwart
- I think we have been educated not to be able to agree to disagree. Work through each others points.mugwart
- How I see it 99.999999% have been in a 'tunnel' and had shit thrown into the fan.
Instead of trying to work out whom throw the shit- we are agruing whom hasmugwart - the most shit on them.
We are all unique - act it or just become some virus mindless dronemugwart - I think tribalism is a big element here...very easy on social media to fall into an echo chamber where your side is right about everything, while "they" areyoungdesigner
- wrong, evil, racist, etc.youngdesigner
- lol...how did this get to -18?yuekit