Now my head has cleared up to think.. You are very right. The question is
now how do I combat. It. I wonder if it is possible to create Micro
Government?

Do No Harm

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 4:20 AM archytas <[email protected]> wrote:

> One way to make sense of recent political events is to reflect on the role
> of epistemic
> insouciance in political debate. Epistemic insouciance is a casual lack of
> concern or
> carelessness about the facts, an indifference to whether one’s assertions
> have any basis in
> reality. It implies an excessively nonchalant attitude towards the
> challenge of finding answers
> to complex questions, partly as a result of a tendency to view such
> questions as less complex
> than they really are. The primary product of epistemic insouciance is
> bullshit in Harry
> Frankfurt’s sense. Epistemic insouciance is an epistemic posture rather
> than a stance. It is an
> epistemic vice, both in the sense that it gets in the way of knowledge and
> is blameworthy or
> otherwise reprehensible. Epistemic insouciance is different from epistemic
> malevolence. The
> latter is a stance rather than a posture. Epistemic insouciance is
> illustrated by the conduct of
> some parties to the Brexit debate in the UK. A compelling example of
> epistemic malevolence
> is the ‘tobacco strategy’.
>
> Is this a term (insouciance) we cab all use in thinking of our political
> and social conditions?
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