Being Part of Politics
Urging people to get involved in politics has been around for a very long time. As Plato put it: One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
I’m not sure Americans need too much encouragement at this point. You’re either a Trump supporter or you believe Trump is a criminal who should be imprisoned. Staying out of this conversation takes real work.
I suppose you have to give the man credit for staying at the forefront of our political discussions. Of course, if the media would stop giving him coverage, he’d lose his relevance immediately. But that’s not going to happen, insofar as news is a for-profit industry whose monetary value is a function of the raw number of viewers/readers, and nothing attracts attention like a loud-mouth conman.
It’s so good to see all this discussion on the dichotomy between the right-wing “Christians” and the followers of Jesus.
I took a course on the philosophy of science during my freshman year in college. The professor, whom I adored, told us this story:
I would wager that virtually all these altercations come from arguments over masks. This can be eliminated by making this statement: “When you bought your ticket for this flight, you agreed to abide by this airline’s mask policy. At this point, anyone who refuses to wear a mask will be arrested and charged with assault. If it happens before we leave the gate, you’ll be escorted off the flight by police. If it happens after we’ve left the gate, you’ll be arrested at our destination.”
What Noam Chomsky says here is, of course, true. It’s a broader, more generalized statement than what we say when we talk about the externalities of the fossil fuel world. They keep the profits, we all pay the price of cleaning up after them.
The anti-vaxxers really are taking themselves out.
A reader sent me the photo here, noting: A very rare occurrence, the sun and the moon are visible at the same time in the horizon. This phenomenon is known as Selenelion. 
The “Arizona Audit” found that the accuracy of the count was 99.98%. Can’t this be the end to this bull****?
IMO, there is no reason to believe that DeSantis is mentally ill. He’s simply aiming himself for success in the sad state of current-day Republican politics, based as it is on anti-vax, anti-science, and citizens’ right to do as they please with respect to COVID.
Scientism is “an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities).”
