I re-read about 1/3rd of this while looking through posts to nominate. I think it’s an account of someone who believes in truth-seeking, engaging with the messy political reality of an environment that cared about the ideals of truth-seeking far more than most other places on earth, and finding it to either fall short or sometimes betray those ideals. Personally I find a post like this quite helpful to ruminate on and read, to think about my ideals and how they can be played out in society.
I can’t quickly tell if it is the right thing for the LW review or not, feeling a bit more like a personal diary, with a person telling their version of a complicated series of events, with all of the epistemic reliance of such an account (i.e. there will often be multiple other perspectives on what happened that I would want to hear before I am confident about what actually happened)… though with more care and aspirations to truth-seeking ideals than most people would care to put in or even know one could aspire to.
I’ll think about it more later, but for now I’m giving it a positive vote to see it through the next phase of the review.
I re-read about 1/3rd of this while looking through posts to nominate. I think it’s an account of someone who believes in truth-seeking, engaging with the messy political reality of an environment that cared about the ideals of truth-seeking far more than most other places on earth, and finding it to either fall short or sometimes betray those ideals. Personally I find a post like this quite helpful to ruminate on and read, to think about my ideals and how they can be played out in society.
I can’t quickly tell if it is the right thing for the LW review or not, feeling a bit more like a personal diary, with a person telling their version of a complicated series of events, with all of the epistemic reliance of such an account (i.e. there will often be multiple other perspectives on what happened that I would want to hear before I am confident about what actually happened)… though with more care and aspirations to truth-seeking ideals than most people would care to put in or even know one could aspire to.
I’ll think about it more later, but for now I’m giving it a positive vote to see it through the next phase of the review.