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Don't downvote me. But whenever I can't figure out the politics of the historian in the first five sentences of their writing, I assume it's a Republican. Then I stop reading because I don't know any intellectually honest Republicans. I know this author is Canadian, but Being a Republican is a state of mind that transcends American election cycles, and here it is, on full display, a bad faith muddy criticism of Joe B…
Don't downvote me. But whenever I can't figure out the politics of the historian in the first five sentences of their writing, I assume it's a Republican. Then I stop reading because I don't know any intellectually honest Republicans. I know this author is Canadian, but Being a Republican is a state of mind that transcends American election cycles, and here it is, on full display, a bad faith muddy criticism of Joe B…
WTF did I just read.
Don't downvote me. But whenever I can't figure out the politics of the historian in the first five sentences of their writing, I assume it's a Republican. Then I stop reading because I don't know any intellectually honest Republicans. I know this author is Canadian, but Being a Republican is a state of mind that transcends American election cycles, and here it is, on full display, a bad faith muddy criticism of Joe B…
And here I thought the author was making a pithy observation about the fact that history is always written by the victors, and therefor almost always a form of disinformation about the losers.
Human minds have a innate desire for virtue and truth, and since objectivity doesn't exist, it becomes difficult to admit that voters would end up create an alternative truth, or at least not at this scale.
I think it always came from the fact that truth doesn't really exist. Humans can really believe anything. There is no good and no evil.
In a way, nobody should have been surprised that Trump would get elected. I don't think "misinformation" really exists, it's just unsettled disagreements about what information and truth is. What happened in 2016 was an anomaly, but it was never impossible.
Nihilism makes me believe that Trump was not such abnormal occurrence. Human minds have a innate desire for virtue and truth, and since objectivity doesn't exist, it becomes difficult to admit that voters would end up create an alternative truth, or at least not at this scale. I think it always came from the fact that truth doesn't really exist. Humans can really believe anything. There is no good and no evil. In a w…
As a current example, in the United States the Republican party has been against vaccines. And have been telling their base to doubt them or not get them. Fox news has lead the way along with lots of other media channels.
But for some reason they changed this week and started claiming everyone needs a vaccine. So the complete opposite story. And no one batted an eye.
It is like living in 1984 to a degree. So weird.
Don't downvote me. But whenever I can't figure out the politics of the historian in the first five sentences of their writing, I assume it's a Republican. Then I stop reading because I don't know any intellectually honest Republicans. I know this author is Canadian, but Being a Republican is a state of mind that transcends American election cycles, and here it is, on full display, a bad faith muddy criticism of Joe B…
Nihilism makes me believe that Trump was not such abnormal occurrence. Human minds have a innate desire for virtue and truth, and since objectivity doesn't exist, it becomes difficult to admit that voters would end up create an alternative truth, or at least not at this scale. I think it always came from the fact that truth doesn't really exist. Humans can really believe anything. There is no good and no evil. In a w…