Sublime

This flurry of work exhibited a broad sense that as a public we have lost our capacity to agree on shared modes of validation as to what is going on and what is just plain whacky.

We view the world through a dense veil of burdensome, thought-warping emotions, biases, and mind-sets. Through this veil we sometimes perceive cause-and-effect and other “patterns” where there are none. We are prone to grace these nonexistent patterns with self-satisfying explanations with whose validity we are instinctively unconcerned. Finally,

In the modern West, the liberal, scientific view of knowledge has asserted a unique claim to legitimacy, and that is a form of intellectual imperialism, as is any person’s or system’s claim to special legitimacy in sorting true beliefs from false ones.