- Feb 2, 2008
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Our current two-party political system has programmed people to think that there is a mystical "liberal" and "conservative" basis for all human thought, as if people are born with "liberal" or "conservative" stamped on their foreheads and there are "two sides to everything".
There is no "conservative" or "liberal" melting point for gold. It's a singular truth.
Every truth is singular in a rational reality. We have science to help us get as close to an understanding of reality as possible. There is no "liberal" scientific law and "conservative" scientific law. There are an endless number of opinions, scientific and otherwise, but all opinions are fundamentally quantifiable by their closeness to reality.
How true an opinion (also known as a hypothesis) is is not arbitrary. Our limitations in understanding reality don't create multiple realities. The melting point of gold, in reality, doesn't change if person A calls himself a conservative and gives it a number and person B calls himself a liberal and gives it a number.
So, please... please please please stop parroting this liberal/conservative nonsense! It's a complete waste of time and energy.
Sometimes I yearn for the days when there were three parties in the USA... Someone please bring back the Whigs. Maybe people might actually have to think for once:
"Those liberals... blah blah blah"
"Those conservatives...blah blah blah"
"Those... uh... non-conservatives... uh... non-liberals... uh.... error error does not compute!"
It's tempting to suggest that the liberal-conservative dichotomy is a manifestation of the binary 0 and 1, but that isn't the case. What matters is how accurate an opinion is.
There is no "conservative" or "liberal" melting point for gold. It's a singular truth.
Every truth is singular in a rational reality. We have science to help us get as close to an understanding of reality as possible. There is no "liberal" scientific law and "conservative" scientific law. There are an endless number of opinions, scientific and otherwise, but all opinions are fundamentally quantifiable by their closeness to reality.
How true an opinion (also known as a hypothesis) is is not arbitrary. Our limitations in understanding reality don't create multiple realities. The melting point of gold, in reality, doesn't change if person A calls himself a conservative and gives it a number and person B calls himself a liberal and gives it a number.
So, please... please please please stop parroting this liberal/conservative nonsense! It's a complete waste of time and energy.
Sometimes I yearn for the days when there were three parties in the USA... Someone please bring back the Whigs. Maybe people might actually have to think for once:
"Those liberals... blah blah blah"
"Those conservatives...blah blah blah"
"Those... uh... non-conservatives... uh... non-liberals... uh.... error error does not compute!"
It's tempting to suggest that the liberal-conservative dichotomy is a manifestation of the binary 0 and 1, but that isn't the case. What matters is how accurate an opinion is.