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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8502964" data-attributes="member: 59082">Yeah, no worries. Me too.Well, I disagree - especially when everything is controlled by private parties. There's no town square, no public commons - at least not in a meaningful way. But if you consider this idea "absurd," then there's probably not much room for discussion.Sure, I can agree with that, at least if I imagine super extreme cases. But the problem is that we all disagree on what values deserve a platform or not. But to adequately address this topic we'd have to go outside of what is allowed here, so I think we're kind of stuck. Yes, I realize that.I won't dismiss (almost) anything outright - I'm not suggesting that. I just won't automatically agree with something if it doesn't make sense to me, just because the "experts" are saying it is so. And the experts rarely all agree, unless they're of a specific school of thought (thus my Freud and Jung example). Some academic fields, or at least branches, are strongly ideologically oriented with different underlying premises and assumptions. Not to mention that a lot of what "expertise" is, is knowledge of a specific field and its literature - not necessarily of the phenomena itself, and it doesn't necessarily correlate with wisdom or innovation. One Buddhist teacher once differentiated between "Buddhologists"--people who know a lot about Buddhism, and "Buddhist practitioners"--those that actually praticed it, and hopefully embodied its teachings.I'm also reminded of something someone said (can't remember who), that scientific innovations--by their very nature--almost always come from the fringe, from someone thinking outside the box. That's why they're innovative!</blockquote>

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