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In an ideal world, I would hope for your statement to be correct. However, our society has changed the value of recognizing duty to recognizing choice. As long
by gzer0 4y ago
In an ideal world, I would hope for your statement to be correct. However, our society has changed the value of recognizing duty to recognizing choice. As long as individuals are aware of the choice they are making, they are justified. The fear of truth is caused by the following dilemma: either you choose for yourself or someone else will choose for you. Because of this fear, choosing correctly becomes less important than choosing freely. The choice is justified by the idea of inner truth, in which the role of subjective experiences can outweigh the role of objective experiences.
A choice is not justified just because it is a choice. But without an objective criterion of correction, every choice is irrelevant, because the subjective criterion is also a choice. It can be changed to justify each of the choices, however inconsistent and contradictory they may be. To say that everything is valid is to say that fact checking is a farce. The loss of discernment is an unexpected result of the emancipation of reason.
- protontorpedo 4y agoI'm pretty sure this comment was generated by a language model. If that's the case, congratulations.
- marcosdumay 4y agoAt the 20th Century, when we got a book from some philosopher entirely written on this style, we didn't have to wonder that. Those were simpler times.
- _5uxp 4y agoYes and getting that or any book was so hard or impossible for the most of the worlds population. So much privilege, but let's compare wrongly that era to AI generated content era
- marcosdumay 4y agoOk. I have no idea what you are talking about, I remember very clearly that libraries existed at the 20th century. But in case you still don't get the joke, no the OP is not written by AI. Instead, it is a common point of view.
- nonrandomstring 4y agoThat's indeed post-modernism for you. Didn't Jean Baudrillard say something similar about communication (the ecstasy of communication?) in which the wanton act itself substitutes for the meaning of the act. We've grown to prefer simulations. Form over function. Seeming right instead of virtue. Meaningful choice is another casualty.