What Have You Learned In The Last 6 Hard Years?
Posted by freedomforall 4 days, 13 hours ago to Politics
Excerpt:
"The last six years have been a time of astonishing revelation about many features of public life that had been previously hidden.
I’m not just speaking of the Epstein files though they are part of it.
We’ve all seen and experienced things over these years that (at least to me) would have been nearly inconceivable before. It’s shaken us and forced people to recalibrate their understanding of the world.
If you have changed your mind on some important matters, congratulations? That’s a sign of humility, curiosity, adaptability, and adherence to facts over bias. This is a virtue. People who report no change are either omniscient, which is doubtful, not paying attention, or just too doggedly attached to prior views that nothing can unsettled them.
I have a huge archive of my own writings over decades and I look through sometimes just to test how and to what extent my own outlook has shifted. Indeed it has. There is value in my old books and articles but reading them now, I detect a kind of naivete, a simplicity in theory and understanding. I don’t think it is just maturing here. There is more going on.
Below I list some of the issues on which our times have introduced depth and complexity that defy conventional ideological categories."
"The last six years have been a time of astonishing revelation about many features of public life that had been previously hidden.
I’m not just speaking of the Epstein files though they are part of it.
We’ve all seen and experienced things over these years that (at least to me) would have been nearly inconceivable before. It’s shaken us and forced people to recalibrate their understanding of the world.
If you have changed your mind on some important matters, congratulations? That’s a sign of humility, curiosity, adaptability, and adherence to facts over bias. This is a virtue. People who report no change are either omniscient, which is doubtful, not paying attention, or just too doggedly attached to prior views that nothing can unsettled them.
I have a huge archive of my own writings over decades and I look through sometimes just to test how and to what extent my own outlook has shifted. Indeed it has. There is value in my old books and articles but reading them now, I detect a kind of naivete, a simplicity in theory and understanding. I don’t think it is just maturing here. There is more going on.
Below I list some of the issues on which our times have introduced depth and complexity that defy conventional ideological categories."
