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All human institutions centered on thought and theory are susceptible to the same social illnesses. Science, religion, politics, programming... I've been work
by kristopolous 5y ago
All human institutions centered on thought and theory are susceptible to the same social illnesses.
Science, religion, politics, programming...
I've been working on a book about this for a while. The framework makes me sound like a bastard but I truly believe the comparison can withstand legitimate scrutiny.
It's not that these institutions at their best are the same, it's that the same shams, grifters, cults and hoodwinkers exist in all of them. The same arguments from popularity, deceptions through marketing and pack animal mentalities.
At their worst they are all the same. At their best, they are of course quite different.
It's always worth remembering that even the most noble human project also has all the grotesque qualities of the human spirit buried within it. Diligence is always required.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoThey're the opposite of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
- 6510 5y agoThe idea/theory/plan to dismiss things using poor methods is it self an idea worth dismissing that some how escaped sufficient scrutiny. But when it is removed (as it should be) there is the challenge preventing the opposite from happening. I suspect we are capable of getting both wrong at the same time. Like 2 shit storms making a poop tornado.
- bobthechef 5y agoOut of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
- lioeters 5y agoFrom Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)
- ttonkytonk 5y agoNot all curves are straight lines.