on the utility of being correct

[goddess32585]

Once upon a time, I believed in Truth. It was out there, and I could find it, and when I did, I would Understand Everything.

Comments

[badoingdoing]

Trans men and women are really meat inside.

[goddess32585]

...zomg, they're made of Soylent Green?

[badoingdoing]

Soylent green is made of purple!

[haptotrope]

Sometimes the search for truth is as absurd as the search for god. They just have some crap empirical data to back it up. But the data, like a bible is flawed, also.

:-)

[goddess32585]

I've never understood why, but looking for [spirituality] has never been much of a thing for me. Maybe I'm just bad at belief.

[haptotrope]

or its because you are good at science. :-)

[goddess32585]

I flip between strongly excoriating econ and psych for what seem like fundamental flaws in their premises, and just shrugging and saying hey, their systems are complex and their methodology is young, what can they do but persevere? And it is easy to poke at them, since the stakes are so high and the failures so high-profile.

I should also perhaps be more charitable about separating the tools from the motives of those who wield them; at the end of the day, society is who sets the agenda, and decides whether the poor should be helped or downtrodden more, not the invisible hand of the market (for example.)