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Decoding the Gurus
The Sceptics Movement Was Training You to Refute Arguments That You'd Already Decided Were Wrong
The sceptics movement was very much training you to refute arguments that you'd already decided were wrong. When it comes to something new, like a political realignment, or new kinds of arguments, which there isn't really a clear sight of, the sceptics movement don't realy know what to do and they fallt to bits. And i think this fits with my kind of general feeling these days that everything's just beams and people repeating things that are socially acceptable. I'm thinking of ways that we could argue about things and things we could disagree on.
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