@accretionist I read Voltaire and all I want to do is rewatch Big with Tom Hanks. Not me sat with Tom Hanks but the movie called Big that has Tom Hanks in it. Geez.
@accretionist@Tooden Objective reality is accepted and acted upon by a wide consensus of people in a broad range of fields. The 'independent existence' of objective reality only needs be stressed to those who belief the simplistic truism that "everything is relative, everything is opinion".
Whether it's by independent research, or its opposite (whatever THAT is) we still ultimately have to make up our own mind.
The REAL problem is that Qballs and magats think inductively—start with the conclusion, then find facts to support it. This leads to seeing all facts as simply ammo for arguments. And when no facts are found, making them up.
The real search for truth is deductive, letting small, true facts add up, removing false facts, finding truth in what's left.
"Trusting lies" boils down to trusting authorities who agree with us. Weak minds are gonna crave the simple and easy, even when it's wrong, that's the nature of weak minds.
My point is that the power of oligarchy has weakened the reliability of who were considered authorities (hello, Supreme Court). So we are on our own.
We can do better, using DEDUCTIVE independent research. Which is different than hunting down facts that agree with conclusions.
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