millchopcuss t1_itf95lr wrote
The comment about Al Franken at the end... I felt this way so strongly that it truly sapped any enthusiasm I could muster for the Democrats. To blast your own foot like that and pretend it wasn't an utter disaster is a good way to telegraph to your constituents that you are unserious about governing.
I still vote for them out of abhorrence for the Trumpist party, but my support hardly rises to the level of 'lukewarm'. With no vision but grievance and guilt, they offer nothing but a way to not vote Trump, and I'm bracing for impact because I know that isn't enough.
dzdidou OP t1_itff48f wrote
In that case, you may find this interesting -> https://social-epistemology.com/2022/05/13/power-not-knowledge-is-power-a-tale-of-two-naivetes-and-the-depredations-of-first-amendment-fundamentalism-ahmed-bouzid/
millchopcuss t1_itgm1i3 wrote
Thank you for this.
My own insights often lack the force of authority, because I am untrained in philosophy. What knowledge I have of it came entirely from my own curiosity and my ability to read.
This has firmly placed me in that camp that finds philosophy not rooted in real events to be so much vapid tail-chasery. I could be (and often am) confused for a Trumpist for my scathing invective at high-left omphaloskepsis. For this I am exposed to an effect treated briefly in this article: the weak attack not the powerful, but the vulnerable.
dzdidou OP t1_itgrs51 wrote
Check out Gilles Deleuze on what he thinks about philosophy. I think it will help you see that real philosophy is rooted and looks at the real world in very concrete ways and should be no means be confined to the academically trained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYBXOpI4tbU
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