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Mmm, there's much I agree with here, and some parts I strongly dispute.
I can't speak to the women in science aspect so I'll just assume it's all true and therefore obviously in need of a complete overhaul.
The grant system is indeed stupid. Applications that take a long time to prepare, even longer to evaluate, and then come back with glowing reports that say, "but this just isn't a priority for us", yeah, that's a stupid system. So is the academic career path of being expected to do (at a typical minimum) two postdocs in widely-separated locations before settling on a permanent position. The less said about publish-or-perish, the better, it's a daft way to evaluate performance, if even such a thing is possible at the forefront of knowledge. All this I've ranted about myself, ad nauseum.
But as to the claims about having undermined an entire discipline, nah, or most academic papers being bullshit... nah. At least to to any great degree beyond what's inevitable if you're doing your job properly, which is to say... investigating the forefront of knowledge, where no-one can tell you if you're right or wrong because no-one else knows. The old quote that it wouldn't be research if you knew what you were doing is emphatically true. You can't avoid mistakes in such a process; I've never seen Sabine ever clearly explain what she thinks everyone is doing that's so wrong in a way that's presumably different from the necessary method of progress that includes these inevitable mistakes.
The fundamental error of the Enlightenment and humanism is the adherence to the Kantian imperative. This quasi-religious dualism of good and evil. This belief that we can achieve a state in which everyone acts rationally. That's where all the madness we have to endure today comes from. This magical world of words and symbols that supposedly bring about good or evil and therefore have to be banished or constantly retrieved. This fear of those who think differently, it is considered "good" not to accept the opinion of others. This complete ignorance of dialectics. Dialectics is the recognition of permanent contradiction. We have to negotiate everything over and over again. There is no other way! Those who cross the boundaries, even in the "bad", are the ones who constantly adjust and calibrate society. They should be honoured and taken seriously and not hunted down and burned at the stake like a crazy medieval pitchfork mob... #kant #philosophy #dialectics #ethics
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Another Enlightenment Fraud
Again and again and again, we see that the “human rights” promoted by the self-styled “liberals” of the #Enlightenment were always fraudulent to their very core. Here we see in #England how so-called “equality” only goes one way and works systematically to the #disadvantage of #boys:
One of the biggest girls’ football leagues in the country faces being shut down by the Football Association for refusing to allow a boy to play in its matches.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a row has broken out between the FA and officials running a female league in Yorkshire after parents complained their son had not been allowed to join.
It is understood the FA has threatened the West Riding Girls Football League with sanctions and a possible suspension if it does not agree to let boys on the pitch, a scenario officials have branded ‘a massive threat to the girls’ game’.
Last week an emergency meeting was held by organisers of the league – which has at least 6,000 under-18 girls playing across more than 300 teams – where managers voiced their concerns that allowing boys to play would ‘open the floodgates’.
The FA’s gender policy states that any under-16 teams must allow both boys and girls to play, despite admitting that ‘physical strength, stamina or physique’ can put one sex at the disadvantage of the other. Fiona McAnena, at sex-based rights group Sex Matters, said: ‘A boy on the pitch changes everything. The law is clear that female-only sport is allowed. It’s sex discrimination for the FA to tell girls they must accept a male player.’
Top girls’ football league faces being shut down, THE DAILY MAIL, 3 March 2024
This is what inevitably happens when reality intrudes upon the #dogmatic #Enlightenment #principles to which the #secular champions of #social-justice have been appealing for more than 200 years. Whenever the #ideological #principle violates their #identity #priority, the principle always crumbles into dust.
We’ve seen it with #free-speech, as that has been trumped by the need for protect the ability of one group to believe they were uniquely persecuted in the 20th Century and for another group to ignore crime statistics. We’ve seen it with “democracy”, as that has been trumped by the need of #ClownWorld #governments to ignore the will of the people. And now we see it with “equality”, as three generations of unrestrained #assaults on #male-only-activities are suddenly jettisoned as soon as #female-only-activities are threatened.
We are somehow supposed to believe that #equality means telling girls they must accept a male player is #sex #discrimination, while not telling boys they must accept a female player is also sex discrimination. Which is, of course, a certain sign that #satanic #inversion is somehow involved.
The #Enlightenment is the philosophical basis for Clown World. It is an #outdated and #sophistic #philosophy that will disappear in the aftermath of Clown World’s #demise.
Is a dirty #peace better than a moral #war?
Context: Every war that is currently being waged on this planet.
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A back-of-the-mind thought I've had since high school is that some of our scientific ideas feel like they have more than a passing similarity to the ideas of antiquity. Not in the literal sense, but in their motivation. E.g. electrons "try" to occupy the lowest energy state, or objects fall to the lowest energy state under gravity, or a moving electric charge generates a magnetic field because that's just what moving charges do... it all feels, in a very deep sense, descriptive rather than truly explanatory.