dzdidou OP t1_itff48f wrote on October 23, 2022 at 6:24 AM

Reply to comment by millchopcuss in “Post-Truth”: The Only Path Forward, Ahmed Bouzid -- Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective by dzdidou

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 on October 23, 2022 at 2:34 PM

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 on October 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM

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