From: wgreenhouse@tilde.club   
      
   D  writes:   
      
   > On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, Richmond wrote:   
   >   
   >> "W. Greenhouse"  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> D  writes:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Found this article and thought that you might be interested. What will   
   >>>> happen when we no longer have a shared world of facts which we can   
   >>>> refer to?   
   >>>   
   >>> When was this not the case?   
   >>   
   >> When you collide with someone.   
   >>   
   >   
   > When you jump off a cliff? Oh, that would be another case of   
   > colliding. ;) I am fascinated by people who argue there are no facts   
   > and no eternal world for two reasons.   
   >   
   > 1. They tend to hurt when they hit a rock.   
   >   
   > 2. They have never managed to disprove the world.   
   >   
   > 3. Even if they do not believe in the world and facts, they still seem   
   > pretty intent on arguing their point with other people, even though   
   > there is no point to argue. ;)   
      
   I don't argue that there are no facts, but that allegations of epistemic   
   crisis/the end of literacy/[insert moral panic about the youth, the   
   times, and their lack of morals] are everpresent, and oversold. Have   
   been since Cicero at least.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)