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Ask HN: What, to you, is the most inspiring philosophical/social movement today?

9 points by rblion 8y ago

Just curious. There is no right or wrong answer. I'm going through a personal revolution right now and exploring the world with new eyes.

chb 8y ago
https://www.populationconnection.org/ https://www.populationconnection.org/
hjkhghfghf 8y ago
A return to conservative values after 50 years of leftist ones.
- yesenadam 8y ago
  Where is that the situation? We (most Western countries, at least) have had almost all political parties competing to be as neo-con, corporatist and vacuous as possible for 40 years (since about 1979) and counting. The main exceptions to that have been even further to the right - nationalists, racists, fascists etc.
  - hjkhghfghf 8y ago
    What you're saying has been true for politics and business, not culture, education or even news, who mainly stayed at the left of the spectrum overall. That's what is changing imo right now, and I see that positively.
    - yesenadam 8y ago
      Where is the news mostly left of the spectrum? (If you mean the US, "the spectrum" there is centre-right to far right, so what seems "left of the spectrum" there still seems on the right to most of the world. Anything to the left of far-right is denounced as socialism/communism.) Serious question - I hardly read news these days, am no expert on the subject, so I'd love some links to those left-leaning news sites. Thanks.
      - hjkhghfghf 8y ago
        Journalists, in large, vote left. In the US maybe less than Europe but still, if you count the large news organisations, you'll find a lot more leaning left than right. For education and culture I think it's even more obvious.
        yesenadam 8y ago
        Ok, it's not obvious to me, so I asked for some links to some left-leaning news sites. (Maybe just some of the most left-leaning, if most of them are, thank you.)
mindcrime 8y ago
https://www.theadvocates.org/ https://www.theadvocates.org/ https://www.lp.org https://www.lp.org https://mises.org/ https://mises.org/
Pharmakon 8y ago
Apatheism. Unlike theism it doesn’t tie you down to a particular set of untestable beliefs. Unlike atheism you don’t have to write a book calling people idiots. Unlike agnosticism it doesn’t require any fence-sitting. You just shrug and ask if the question of god(s) is even a relevant one to a bunch of meat hurtling from birth to death. This obviously doesn’t work if you subscribe to a particular religion, because they tied to claim the imposition of existential penalties for this kind of thing, but assuming you’ve already concluded that religion is definitely a human invention separate from the “god” question, that presents no obstacle. After all, if there isn’t a god, gods, afterlife and so forth, it’s a waste of time to worry about it. If there is a god, gods, afterlife and so forth, then could we ever know for sure? Could we hope to understand it and are we really so full of ourselves that we think worship is important? For me the answer is “no” let’s get on with life, and leave what (if anything) comes later. If other people feel differently, that’s fine. Plus I get to avoid a lot of boring debates and arguments between tribes of people who seriously think their ancestors figured out the secrets of the universe.
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9 points by rblion 8y ago

Just curious. There is no right or wrong answer. I'm going through a personal revolution right now and exploring the world with new eyes.

chb 8y ago

https://www.populationconnection.org/ https://www.populationconnection.org/

hjkhghfghf 8y ago

A return to conservative values after 50 years of leftist ones.

yesenadam 8y ago
Where is that the situation? We (most Western countries, at least) have had almost all political parties competing to be as neo-con, corporatist and vacuous as possible for 40 years (since about 1979) and counting. The main exceptions to that have been even further to the right - nationalists, racists, fascists etc.
- hjkhghfghf 8y ago
  What you're saying has been true for politics and business, not culture, education or even news, who mainly stayed at the left of the spectrum overall. That's what is changing imo right now, and I see that positively.
  - yesenadam 8y ago
    Where is the news mostly left of the spectrum? (If you mean the US, "the spectrum" there is centre-right to far right, so what seems "left of the spectrum" there still seems on the right to most of the world. Anything to the left of far-right is denounced as socialism/communism.) Serious question - I hardly read news these days, am no expert on the subject, so I'd love some links to those left-leaning news sites. Thanks.
    - hjkhghfghf 8y ago
      Journalists, in large, vote left. In the US maybe less than Europe but still, if you count the large news organisations, you'll find a lot more leaning left than right. For education and culture I think it's even more obvious.
      - yesenadam 8y ago
        Ok, it's not obvious to me, so I asked for some links to some left-leaning news sites. (Maybe just some of the most left-leaning, if most of them are, thank you.)

mindcrime 8y ago

https://www.theadvocates.org/ https://www.theadvocates.org/ https://www.lp.org https://www.lp.org https://mises.org/ https://mises.org/

Pharmakon 8y ago

Apatheism. Unlike theism it doesn’t tie you down to a particular set of untestable beliefs. Unlike atheism you don’t have to write a book calling people idiots. Unlike agnosticism it doesn’t require any fence-sitting. You just shrug and ask if the question of god(s) is even a relevant one to a bunch of meat hurtling from birth to death. This obviously doesn’t work if you subscribe to a particular religion, because they tied to claim the imposition of existential penalties for this kind of thing, but assuming you’ve already concluded that religion is definitely a human invention separate from the “god” question, that presents no obstacle. After all, if there isn’t a god, gods, afterlife and so forth, it’s a waste of time to worry about it. If there is a god, gods, afterlife and so forth, then could we ever know for sure? Could we hope to understand it and are we really so full of ourselves that we think worship is important? For me the answer is “no” let’s get on with life, and leave what (if anything) comes later. If other people feel differently, that’s fine. Plus I get to avoid a lot of boring debates and arguments between tribes of people who seriously think their ancestors figured out the secrets of the universe.

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