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It is a shame that your comment got downvoted.
by naiv 3y ago
It is a shame that your comment got downvoted.
- gaganyaan 3y agoNot really. Post-modernism is kind of silly when it tries to deny reality. Good luck deconstructing narratives or whatever when you're starving due to crop failures from climate change.
- circlefavshape 3y agoAFAICS mc42 is arguing that we need more watertight arguments for why we need climate change mitigation, so that deniers can't use the holes in our arguments to deny climate change is happening (or anthropogenic)
- gaganyaan 3y agoFrom their other comment: > The poster was asking why certain things are omitted and only things the support an argument are surfaced That's just not a helpful comment. It's like someone barging into a murder investigation and saying "Why are aliens being omitted? The narrative is omitting them!"
- brookst 3y agoIt was a lot of words to say “perception is more important than reality”, and delivered in an oblique way hinting at some unstated “narrative” going on, without either explicitly making that point or providing evidence. Kind of the HN equivalent of the angsty teen who will only say “that’s what YOU think” to everyone.
- mc32 3y agoThe poster was asking why certain things are omitted and only things the support an argument are surfaced. The reason is it tends to undermine a given narrative. People are convinced of things via narrative. Both good and bad things. It’s not an oblique criticism of climate change. It’s a comment on why narratives don’t tend to be objective.
- brookst 3y agoYou’re obsessed with the word narrative. It is not a magic word. And there is no such thing as an objective position.