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"You don’t need to argue that something is true. You just need to show that it’s associated with high status. And when low status people express the truth, it sometimes becomes high status to lie."
This is a dark view of social epistemology. The Western world has in fact set up systems that correlate prestige with truth-seeking. Jonathan Rauch calls this the Constitution of Knowledge. But it seems that in the 21st century this system has been gamed and corrupted.
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Almeda Bohannan
Update: 2024-12-04