Asofon

@Asofon@discuss.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really all that interesting. It’s just the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_paradox wearing the cape of solipsism.

  Without the fancy jargon, the argument is “All people must be free to do whatever they want (the paradox part they don’t say out loud is: except form a consensus)”

  If you resolve the paradox, what you’re left with is exactly the same world we have now: everyone is free to do exactly what they want, including forming a consensus (that may restrict the freedom of the individual)

  It’s a philosophical sleight of hand that’s easy to hide in grandiose and virtuous rhetoric. I’ve seen it often from the Libertarian Right, and I suspect so have others on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lot of people know what to think. Much fewer people know how to think.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeeees and unfortunately it can get very meta: “I need to think critically” is another “what” to think. Most people would agree that critical thinking is a good thing. Yet, they still fail to actually do it. When pressed, many people can’t even define is means to think critically and even get really pissed when this gets highlighted.

  Also to @BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today

• A lot of people know what to think. Much fewer people know how to think.
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• We've grown fat with information, but are starving for wisdom...
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