One of my favorite young political commentators, Sabrina Salvati, frequently says to her audience, “Make it make sense!” This series is intended to help accomplish that, by contrasting two profoundly different ways of understanding the universe, and illustrating the pitfalls of the one and the advantages of the other.
Idealism is basically a sentimental construct--it's for people who, whatever their reasons might be, want to believe in an orderly world with cause and effect. Such people usually have good consciences, and leeches like Woodrow Wilson and Joe Biden make use of that idealism to sucker them into cheering for war. All you have to do to get an idealist cheering for something very bad is to stick a humanitarian label on it.It's like a buzzword for them. They fall for it every time.
Introduction to a Series: Pitfalls of Philosophical Idealism
Idealism is basically a sentimental construct--it's for people who, whatever their reasons might be, want to believe in an orderly world with cause and effect. Such people usually have good consciences, and leeches like Woodrow Wilson and Joe Biden make use of that idealism to sucker them into cheering for war. All you have to do to get an idealist cheering for something very bad is to stick a humanitarian label on it.It's like a buzzword for them. They fall for it every time.