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This quote stood out: "It’s not so much that people are persecuted because of their beliefs, but there is a certain trend where careful reasoning, the se
by nonrandomstring 1y ago
This quote stood out:
"It’s not so much that people are persecuted because of their
beliefs, but there is a certain trend where careful reasoning, the
search for truth, all the delicacies of having a balanced point of
view, acting on facts, being honest about what you do and don’t
know, your uncertainty, all these values we have in science and
scholarship are at risk."
Isn't this epistemic crisis [0]. I think mistrust in the world
increased to the extent the it got digital, but taking advantage of
crisis, even conjuring untruth, mistrust and polycrisis [1] as a
smokescreen strategy for taking control is also a basic Machiavelli
thing, right?. This (epistemic injury) is more easily done to already
traumatised people. Germans of 1930s, already reeling from recent war,
were vulnerable to a rampage of anti-intellectualism and a bonfire of
knowledge.
[0] https://academic.oup.com/book/26406/chapter/194768451 https://academic.oup.com/book/26406/chapter/194768451
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20210209-the-greatest-security-threat-of-the-post-truth-age https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20210209-the-greatest-s...