• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    2 months ago

    This is the problem with "ism"s. At whatever point you decide that philosophy X is the answer to everything, you start being wrong about a lot of the world, because whatever it is, there’s at least like 30% of situations (and potentially a lot more) that your particular ism actually isn’t the answer to.

    Libertarianism or anti-imperialism or ACAB or socialism or pro-the-Democrats or anarchist or whatever it is, it’s never always the answer. Trying to hold a debate about, well is it philosophy X or philosophy Y that’s always right about everything, or any other discussion that feeds into the basic wrong premise, is just compounding the imaginary non-situation-dependent way of looking at it.

    Although yes some of them are wrong a lot more of the time than some others.