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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
So forget about left right. Recognize that your primary allegiances are to reason and liberalism, and recognize that those values are under assault as least as strongly from the left as from the right.
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I don't know that this is necessarily the case - particularly on the right of the political spectrum, the level of crazy has absolutely ventured beyond even self parodying caricature. But in general, yeah, I'm there.
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Mostly this is the folly of youth who want to belong to something bigger than themselves and who crave the kind of comfort and security that religion used to provide. It's distressing - especially the dismal state of free inquiry and speech in our institutions of higher learning. But I'm not convinced such infantile folly can persist for long if exposed to the cool light of reason. Science, logic, and empiricism aren't going anywhere, even though so many of even our educated today have abandoned them in favour of feels.
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It's incredibly depressing to see how easily people fall into established patterns of ignorance and irrationality and how difficult it is for large segments to overcome shortcomings imposed upon them by the unfinished project of human evolution.
On the same topic, I'm shaking my head while listening to this, at the moment: