Ernie: I like the idea of a Truth Bowl; can you send some information?
OTOH, one thrust of Douthat's article is that the mindset of many or most academics is utterly ideologically conditioned. Even if these academics are given maximum freedom, so what? They would still gush forth with their ideologies and fixed positions and all the rest. How do you -anyone- break the mindset, not for the sake of breaking it, but for the purpose of developing a new and better philosophy of life? So far, the best solution to that problem that I am aware of is to mix people with different ideologies together in some practical way such that this mixing is an everyday matter that can't be walked away from and co-operation is a necessity. Then there can be shifts in opinions and changes in views. There was a study of 3 judge courts in which you could get all 3 Reps or all 3 Dems, or some version of 2:1. In all cases of 2:1 there was gradual shift towards the center by all concerned. In all cases of 3-0 the ideologies became more rigid and closed minded. Anyway, maybe there are some good ideas in the Truth Bowl. Billy ________________________________ From: Centroids <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 8:37 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Billy Rojas Subject: Re: [RC] The War Against the Humanities Funny, I am working with UCSC on a project to revive the humanities, built around Truth Bowl. I told them the humanities have never been more important — or more useless. The big win is if we can somehow use VIrtual Reality to create a safe space for academics to speak (and seek) the truth. Perhaps a long shot, but at least a shot... E Sent from my iPhone On Nov 29, 2018, at 12:05, Billy Rojas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We are in the midst of what amounts to an all out war against the humanities. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
