Wandering Adventure Party

Where do I go to pitch my establishment media op-ed urging Republicans to pivot to the middle if they want to win?

@theogrin @atomicpoet @nihongomaamaa This all goes back to Immanuel Kant and how his ontology is contradicted by his epistemology.

Most of science listened to David Hume that objectivity was impossible. Too much of liberalism listened to Kant that it was.

New Atheism and right-wing libertarianism are both undead sciences that have made common cause with the older undead science of traditionalist religion.

@atomicpoet @nihongomaamaa That perspective you highlight, which is indeed the New Atheist viewpoint, is anti-scientific.

All the best philosophers of science share the idea that there is no objectivity, only ideas which are presently unfalsified.

We can only know through negation.

Nothing about the external world can ever be "true." It can only be false, possibly false, and not known to be false.

Reactionary intellectualism is completely impoverished. The atheists like Curtis Yarvin are puerile, and the theists are still serving up CS Lewis's gruel.

NYT columnist Ross Douthat wrote a book trying to convince people to believe in religion, but it appears to be nothing more than a distended version of Pascal's wager, an argument debunked centuries ago. https://archive.ph/bkp8c

🧵 Having been one for 27 years, I can tell you that far-right people almost uniformly have a deep inferiority complex towards mainstream society.

They know that their beliefs are either unprovable or disproven. But they want to believe anyway. Thus, they seek to destroy objective knowledge.