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No, but there are authors who attempt to avoid an agenda, and authors who attempt to advance one. It's an important distinction.
by bronson 11y ago
No, but there are authors who attempt to avoid an agenda, and authors who attempt to advance one. It's an important distinction.
- dnautics 11y agoI'd be more scared of the former since they have self-deluded themselves into believing themselves more objective. This will lead to all sorts of strange contortions to maintain the author's impossible self-image.
- chc 11y agoAttempting to be fair and objective isn't a delusion, it's an effort. Similarly, I try to be kind to people, but sometimes I'll get a little irritated — this doesn't mean I'm deluded into thinking I'm perfectly kind, and it also doesn't mean I'm just as mean as somebody who revels in other people's pain. Put another way: Just because no software is 100% error-free doesn't mean it's better to go with software that has had no QA whatsoever and is known to be very buggy.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoIt can also lead to attempts to actually be more objective. Remember, you're contrasting them to authors who attempt to advance an agenda, and are almost certainly therefore deliberately being less objective.