Brutkey

Dave Rahardja
@drahardja@sfba.social

Conspiracy thinking, magical thinking, reductive thinking, just-so thinking, disinformation, and plain old cult behavior also exist on the left.

Stay vigilant, stay curious, ground yourself in verifiable reality, and focus on people, not abstractions. There is no single -ism that solves all of our problems. There is always something new we don’t yet understand.

Reality is messy. We must deal with it as it is.

#propaganda #conspiracy #cult #leftist

Dave Rahardja
@drahardja@sfba.social

Great post on the New Atheism movement, and how they’re not really that different than the illiberal, antiscientific Right. This review of the book “The War on Science” is rightfully scathing.

Yet another reminder that even previously-progressive atheists can fall deeply into illiberal, conspiracy-ridden, and bigoted thought-traps.

#illiberalism #NewAtheism #jackasses

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/new-atheists-maha-war-on-science.html

Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/FHbs3

Clinton Anderson SwordForHire
@ClintonAnderson@universeodon.com

@drahardja@sfba.social

I have to believe that Chris Hitch and Dan Dennett have got to be glad they're dead, so they don't have to endure the absolute bullshit that morons like Dawkins, Krauss, have tried to drag Atheism down to.

They have failed, because if there was any such thing as an "Atheist Community", the majority don't G a F what such grifters have to say about anything.

"None" is still the fastest growing "Religious Identifier" there is.

Sam Harris brought up the "We don't have a word for people who don't believe in leprechauns" angle a long time ago... But he still concedes that in a world beset by belief in mythology, a word that says "I do not" is very useful.