On Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 4:40:32 PM UTC-5,
mohammad...@gmail.com wrote:
> These things like skyrocketting mental illness in college, transgenderism, cancel culture, downward trend of familylife, downward trend of religion, downward trend of national feeling, increasd socialism, downward trend of friendships, downward trend of entertainment culture, these fall well within the scope of what could be the effects of academics throwing out subjectivity with evolution theory.
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> But I didn't actually see transgenderism coming. I did not predict it. Maybe I should have been able to predict it. What can be predicted on account of academics annihiliating subjectivity?
Can you clarify? It's academics that are responsible for Ronald Reagan divorcing
and remarrying? For Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter being married for 75 years.
For Newt Gingrich serving his wife divorce papers while she was in the hospital
with cancer so he could marry his mistress. For Barack and Michelle Obama to
still be (apparently) happily married? For that Trump guy to be on his third marriage
after multiple scandalous public affairs while still married?
Does it seem odd to you that the ones who deny scientific objectivity are the
ones that are the ones with multiple failed marriages while the ones you think
are responsible for this "downward trend of familylife" are the ones with long
term marriages?
All these things you imagine to have "downward trends" are evident in the whole
of recorded human history, most of which predates the scientific revolution.
I guess for you, if it 'subjectively' feels like a downward trend that matters more
than observed reality. I just don't get this business of downgrading observed facts
to conform to your feelings.