Is There a Balance in the Pattern Seekers?

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i was going to say something else about, oh, i was just reading simon baring collins book for for future pod as is called the pattern seekers. Well, i can see why now, and that's probably a self preservation as well a yes. But the problem is that we have this word otism that's now a label. And to get a cut, say, insurance coverage, you actually have to have a medical diagnosis. Soi the doctor can get reimbursed by insurance, and you don't have to pay for it. This is a good thing. You know, that that h you may recall, in the believing brain, i ind contrasted that john nash

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society?

In this wide-ranging conversation Helen Pluckrose recounts the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous.