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The way I read this: Bias is unavoidable. It's a fact of life, every philosopher puts their own bias into their work. You know that, you account for that. Whe
by myself248 2y ago
The way I read this:
Bias is unavoidable. It's a fact of life, every philosopher puts their own bias into their work. You know that, you account for that.
Where it's a problem is when someone claims to be free of bias. To present the one true view, and all others are tainted. That's impossible, all they're doing is saying their bias is more valid than others.
And the trouble is when people buy that, and forget to question it. Which seems to have been the case for, oh, several decades.
- 52-6F-62 2y agoNow you have also identified the driving force behind every expansionist attitude in history. Rome, British Empire, America (and many others besides) all usurped by an ideal that they are and must be the only true light of life and civilization and no goodness or success can be had outside of their rampantly materialistic perspectives. It hasn’t just been decades, my friend. It’s the perpetual war with an insidious evil that is captured in the aphorism: all that glitters isn’t gold.