Posts tagged "epistemology"
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Crude Beliefs
Mingey is a medium-sized town in rural Western Australia. It would be all dusty and deserted, but that it finds itself a short drive from a big copper-mine. You can get a nice eggs benedict. You’ll bump into plenty of never-married singles. In 2019, the town was the unlikely site of an international espionage drama; a clandestine cartel was uncovered. They were taking Mingey over. Luckily, one red-blooded local had crude beliefs.
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Epstein and Disinformation
The 'current thing' is the Epstein cover-up. President Trump seemed swampy by saying recently that there was nothing more of interest. It was apparently all just about some "creep" and his creepy fetish. For the Populist champion, this was about as unpopulist as one could get. Regardless of whether Trump is a Populist or not (I believe he's a Neoliberal), being unpopulist at this stage of history is extremely unpopular. Trump and his relevant staff of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel have been pilloried by the public and they deserve it in my opinion. However, we live in a time of confusion and disinformation. It's hard to know the probably-true from the almost-certainly-false. Governments put out false or irrelevant information to fog up the windows. Other nefarious actors add their own bad air. Being 'informed' is not enough. I want to outline my thought process. I want to show how I steer a path to reasonable conclusions.
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