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>They often talk about how research is just "food for thought" and has little use in any endeavor the requires decision making or informing policy and that trut
by eli_gottlieb 3y ago
>They often talk about how research is just "food for thought" and has little use in any endeavor the requires decision making or informing policy and that truth as a concept is "frowned upon".
If this person really believed any such thing, they would of course never take any form of policy or political action themselves. After all, all those ideas are just for playing with, right? The concept that there exists a truth you could act upon to change things is frowned upon, no?
- cupcakecommons 3y agoThey do take political action though. They act from the same diluted dialectical materialist frame many highly educated academics in the social sciences tend to act from. When I try to point out that their actions implicate specific truth claims - they seem to reliably misunderstand what I'm saying. They don't see this as contradictory at all as far as I can tell. It's fascinating and I don't know what to make of it. It makes me worry about my own mental health.
- eli_gottlieb 3y agoYou should worry more about their mental health.