How Modern Math Spawned Woke Ethics

The American Mind ^ | 03/18/21 | Mathew Lu

[PoliticallyShort]

In our era, ideas that until quite recently would have bordered on insane have become thoroughly entrenched in academia and, increasingly, government. The “woke” ruling classes implicitly understand—as in all the cultural revolutions of history—that their power depends on punitively enforcing falsehoods. How could this have happened, so rapidly and so pervasively? How could the accrued common wisdom of mankind have come so quickly to be regarded by so many as not only false, but deeply pernicious?

Insightful contemporary writers like Carl Trueman, Yuval Levin, and others have drawn on the resources of important 20th-century theorists like Charles Taylor and Philip Rieff to explain the rise of the “modern self” and its susceptibility to the delusions of woke politics. While their analysis is helpful, I believe that the true origins of these changes actually go much deeper and further back to the beginnings of modernity itself.

The radical claims of our fevered age are rooted in what might initially seem to be the unlikely soil of early modern philosophy. The radical way that the early moderns reconceived the possibility of knowledge itself made the later cultural and political changes possible. It is sometimes claimed that politics is downstream from culture, but it is also the case that culture is ultimately downstream from epistemology and metaphysics.

[TimSkalaBim]

Interesting concepts in article, but surprised no mention of special relativity or quantum uncertainty and its application by modernists to morals/ethics.

[monkeyshine]

special relativity - Racist
quantum uncertainty - Racist
morals/ethics - Racist

It’s easier to understand things this way.

[omega4412]

You forgot “2 + 2 = 4 Racist”

[libertylover]

How could this have happened, so rapidly and so pervasively?

Never underestimate the power of wanting to be a part of the In-crowd.

[cgbg]

Money quote:

We have traded knowledge and power for a deep alienation from Nature.

This is the issue. Mao had the solution--send every "intellectual" out to the farms to work the fields for a year.

Nature has zero tolerance for stupidity.

[ronnie raygun]

woke math 2+2 eqwuls 5