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> In short, not only no one “owns” the truth, but anyone who claims to actually “know” it is being delusional or misleading; To quote a favourite song, Tim Min
by _carbyau_ 2y ago
> In short, not only no one “owns” the truth, but anyone who claims to actually “know” it is being delusional or misleading;
To quote a favourite song, Tim Minchin's Storm:
"So I resist the urge to ask Storm whether knowledge is so loose-weave of a morning when deciding whether to leave her apartment by the front door
Or the window on her second floor"
To put it another way, some truths are easier to realise than others. But most quarrels are not about truth, more about what solution we want to use for an issue.
> the solution to alienating political divisiveness is not obtaining unobtainable objective truth but finding common ground.
My concern with this is that all parties need to be finding, rather than barracking for their side. Wilful ignorance deserves no mercy in my book.