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I'm afraid that although not long ago I spoke of admiring this guy, Peter Boghossian, and some of his work remains admirable, see for example his U. of Tube postings of his useful game STREET EPISTEMOLOGY, I find his current talk at the Danube Institute in Budapest most troubling in tone:
This direction he has taken strikes me as cause for concern. That he'd even accept an invitation to speak at the advocacy mill rather than think tank dba "Danube Institute"
suggests his critiques of U.S. institutional academia have veered off into a pre-set mindset and abandoned the searching qualities that made his very use of academia as a viable forum for discussion and peer review so apt, his critiques of the current state of academia notwithstanding. In principle and more often than in the quarters of Wall Street or lobbyists where seeking after zero-sum personal gain frames the rules of the schoolyard competition, peer review and clarifying discourse is open to competing views and is not based on favoring bullying or restricting opposing views.
I've always trusted those who welcome open debate and are comfortable with uncertainty and discovery. Yet, I don't get that feeling from this side of Boghossian's advocacy any more than I do from listening to Trump or his legion of backers debate or discuss any issue... With the exception of those backers that have shown ease and comfort with discovery and shifting perspectives to accomodate a pluralism of viewpoints. For example this lecture and Q&A with students and faculty
by Yanis Varoufakis at Tubingen U. (in English language) that makes the case for pluralism in that least likely place to find it, Capitalistic Economics and its sacred spaces of Wall Street and Open Markets designed for seeking advantage in the endeavour of concentrating personal wealth at the expense of others:
Yanis Varoufakis: From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism | DiEM25
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Sorry to speak here of my disillusionment now with Prof Boghossian's message at Danube Institute and of my own being such a downer to the rah-rah objectives of the Neo-Feudal Right Wing aligned behind our President Elect (no case would I make for this election being rigged. The American Electoral Majority has spoken in ways it has spoken in the past and no doubt will again in the future in ways that I myself would never endorse....)
I'm serious about welcoming opposing views to my own darkening vision,
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