At Power Line, John Hinderaker undertakes to examine a post on the market for common sense by Richard Fernandez at PJMedia and confesses himself mystified by the reality of the market for stupidity.
Reject awareness of Sin — self-alienation as a condition of existence — as contrasted with sins — specific, correctable moral mistakes — and this mystery which confounds Hinderaker — the market for stupidity — is a predictable expectation.
Accepting the demand for mediated experience (empirical evidence) to support any assertion of truth — that is, capitulation to the hegemonic impulses of soi disant scientists’ sense-based epistemology — plays merry hell with the facts of life and one’s grasp of them. In this way, hegemonic scientists’ sense-based epistemology is allowed to subvert religion, culture and morality. And that means economics, politics and justice. Most experience is direct, unmediated — that is, not sense-based — to include especially experience related to the perennial, always-pressing quandaries of life and death, love and war, truth and falsehood.
AMDG
