Message from @Sampuka

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2017-07-03 23:47:51 UTC  

no, you misunderstood my point

2017-07-03 23:48:21 UTC  

You do that when the doubt is little, the cost is bearable

2017-07-03 23:48:35 UTC  

you don't go jumping from your balcony on little evidence you could fly

2017-07-03 23:48:45 UTC  

exaggerated example but I hope you understand

2017-07-03 23:49:07 UTC  

you're saying that it trivializes reality so much that it doesn't really apply to reality in any meaningful way?

2017-07-03 23:49:25 UTC  

taht most political theories aren't robust enough so you can BET entire nations and millions of lives because something sounds nice

2017-07-03 23:49:47 UTC  

political change should be very careful, at least now that we can afford it

2017-07-03 23:49:52 UTC  

we can be smart about it

2017-07-03 23:50:43 UTC  

theories aren't something to be tried, they merely attempt to describe reality. You can use these theories to create fx socialism, but marxism is not a set of affairs to be established

2017-07-03 23:50:48 UTC  

why be attached so strongly to a set of rules that was forged century ago

2017-07-03 23:51:27 UTC  

>theories aren't something to be tried, they merely attempt to describe reality.
I'm not against this

2017-07-03 23:52:05 UTC  

then it doesn't make sense to say you can bet nations and lives on a theory

2017-07-03 23:52:08 UTC  

My issue is that clearly marxist mindset isn't enough to describe reality and we have plenty of disciplines to supplement and change it but most people don't want to

2017-07-03 23:52:23 UTC  

sociology, psychology, complex economics, geopolitical dynamics etc

2017-07-03 23:52:59 UTC  

>then it doesn't make sense to say you can bet nations and lives on a theory
on weak theory

2017-07-03 23:53:06 UTC  

I thought I was clear on that

2017-07-03 23:53:20 UTC  

Obviously theory is all we have, everything is a theory, a model of reality

2017-07-03 23:53:22 UTC  

that's a givegn

2017-07-03 23:53:34 UTC  

we don't have the means to simulate all of universe

2017-07-03 23:53:59 UTC  

you are completely right that theories should be critizised, and that the best critizism often comes from other fields. In fact, I am ringht now reading a book by an anthropologist that heaviliy critizises adam smith

2017-07-03 23:55:00 UTC  

for how long have I been misspelling criticism

2017-07-03 23:55:02 UTC  

: o

2017-07-03 23:55:19 UTC  

When will you criticize marxism ;p

2017-07-03 23:55:39 UTC  

after I understand it

2017-07-03 23:55:41 UTC  

well

2017-07-03 23:56:05 UTC  

I think the "invisible hand that fixes everything" is as wishful as thinking that good will and communism will solve all problems

2017-07-03 23:56:25 UTC  

then it's a good thing that no-one said either

2017-07-03 23:56:27 UTC  

it's the part of the simple weak theories that try to trivialize reality I was trying to communicate

2017-07-03 23:57:42 UTC  

Just saying you implied that I said all theories are bad trivialization of reality.
The problem I think it's obvious, dogmatic ideological follwoing

2017-07-03 23:58:14 UTC  

We should use political systems as tools to ends not as ends themselves

2017-07-03 23:59:22 UTC  

I have ancom and commie friends and acquaintances but I never really talk about politics irl with them bc I have noticed how hostile they become the moment they are criticized by others

2017-07-03 23:59:28 UTC  

and that's a huge issue for me

2017-07-03 23:59:30 UTC  

and it's scary

2017-07-03 23:59:58 UTC  

a theory states that if X is the case then Y will happen. One can then think that Y is preferable and therefore try to make X be the case. However, you cant say whether or not the theory will be satisfactory or not, as you do when you said "I don't think marxist doctrine provides that"

2017-07-04 00:00:09 UTC  

yeah that's really annoying, but that is what ideology is

2017-07-04 00:00:40 UTC  

well you could be ideological and still be open minded?

2017-07-04 00:00:56 UTC  

ideology != dogmatic zealot

2017-07-04 00:01:19 UTC  

in the ordinary sense, yes. I regrettably used the more zizekian version of ideology

2017-07-04 00:02:06 UTC  

>One can then think that Y is preferable and therefore try to make X be the case. However, you cant say whether or not the theory will be satisfactory or not
why exactly do you mean by that?

2017-07-04 00:02:07 UTC  

ideology pretrays itselfs as being able to see the truth, which I argue is the main reason why people strongly defend ideology

2017-07-04 00:02:35 UTC  

@Deleted User my point is that you cannot blame theories, like you cannot prove or disprove them