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There’s a certain attraction to counter-mainstream views of course—the idea of being part of a secret smart club—but it’s a massive red flag when someone starts
by matthewmacleod 4y ago
There’s a certain attraction to counter-mainstream views of course—the idea of being part of a secret smart club—but it’s a massive red flag when someone starts to define themselves and their views substantially in terms of that opposition.
Interesting counter-mainstream ideas are important and valuable - but I don’t hear about any of them from Hossenfelder’s writing, and it’s all about how broken “the system” is. Everything I watch or read from her leaves me deeply suspicious.
- terminal_d 4y ago> but it’s a massive red flag when someone starts to define themselves and their views substantially in terms of that opposition. Anyone from the other side could make the same argument (and they often do). If you're trying to name a "us versus them" then there's just one big mainstream entity, the rest is fragmented. So it's not really a "red flag" because opposition is by definition not a coherent group.