Albert Camus. Always. https://t.co/4p1FZl6Dz6
This is an obnoxious answer of sorts, but it’d be like: The political establishment, the leaders we have, will actually solve some of these problems, and this is the last time we’re going to have this conversation. And if you ask to talk to me a bunch of times over the next 10 years, that won’t be healthy, because it will be because these problems... See more
Falous
Falous
19h
Absolutely - in fact people complaining about politicians lying has always struck me as generaly being people not having the self-awareness that in many ways Politicians lying is simply Human Being Behaviour made really really painfully public -
People hedge and dissemble all the time to get along in society, but we are not generally... See more
Falous
19h
Absolutely - in fact people complaining about politicians lying has always struck me as generaly being people not having the self-awareness that in many ways Politicians lying is simply Human Being Behaviour made really really painfully public -
People hedge and dissemble all the time to get along in society, but we are not generally... See more
Dog-whistle moderation is not the way
In Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes names four “abuses” of speech, the second of which is “when [men] use words metaphorically; that is, in other sense than that they are ordained for; and thereby deceive others.”
On first encounter I found Hobbes’s whole argument sort of obviously silly. The problem is, unfortunately, I also think he might be kind of... See more
On first encounter I found Hobbes’s whole argument sort of obviously silly. The problem is, unfortunately, I also think he might be kind of... See more