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Any politics that claims to be on the side of rational discussion without ideological zealotry needs a clause "Manifesto-writers see yourselves out." Despite th

by bbctol 9y ago

Any politics that claims to be on the side of rational discussion without ideological zealotry needs a clause "Manifesto-writers see yourselves out." Despite this particular new crop popping up online, no, it doesn't count if your manifesto is about how bad people who reduce things to manifestos are. You don't get points when your unsubstantiated, simplistic essay is about how we should be on the team that substantiates arguments and isn't so simplistic. Practicing what you preach is hard, but man, at least make an effort.

woodandsteel 9y ago
You haven't been listening very carefully, have you. The postmodernists and the antimodernists are openly, explicitly opposed to reason. It is only the modernists who are for it. So if you are on the side of reason, you are a modernist, whether you want to admit it or not. And you state openly that you are for reason and think everyone who is for reason should act together politically, then you are a manifesto writer, again whether or not you like to think of yourself as one.