There's no greater tyranny in my world than that of experience, by which I mean the ever more sophisticated versions of the claim "seeing is believing." We are skeptical by nature, demanding evidence and proof and subjecting claims to all kinds of tests before we believe them. Experience produces facts, in principle if not in practice. Which is why even the alt-rightist has to adopt the experientalist's strategy: he casts doubt on facts that bother him and produces alt-facts where there are none.
2019 Newsletter 8: The Tyranny of Experience
2019 Newsletter 8: The Tyranny of Experience
2019 Newsletter 8: The Tyranny of Experience
There's no greater tyranny in my world than that of experience, by which I mean the ever more sophisticated versions of the claim "seeing is believing." We are skeptical by nature, demanding evidence and proof and subjecting claims to all kinds of tests before we believe them. Experience produces facts, in principle if not in practice. Which is why even the alt-rightist has to adopt the experientalist's strategy: he casts doubt on facts that bother him and produces alt-facts where there are none.