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DeezerShoove » 28 May 2023, 7:53 am » wrote: ↑

28 May 2023, 7:53 am

Where is truth?

The world doesn't run on cold logic and facts any more than opinion and emotion.

Why is one side of this equation any more valid than the other? This seems to be the case in almost every situation.
Sure, the stock market is numbers and analysis, but underlying the moves are the emotions, fears, and expectations of investors.
Is religion and philosophy just emotion, moods, values? Yet entire civilizations live and die by that.

Posters in cyberspace make a HUGE deal about "That's just your opinion..." as though that automatically invalidates said opinion. If that opinion echoes the masses -or-  contradicts the masses, with greater weight than so-called facts, seems its validity is worthy of mention.

Just like the "Utopian Paradise" of liberals' saying "Gosh, it just doesn't have to be this way." being unattainable,
so it is with some people saying "You are stupid because you don't know every little detail like me." Those so-called facts.

We live in between two competing and unattainable scenarios.
Masses of people that will never know the minutia a tiny minority believes elevates them above the rest.
Which side dislikes the other more,,,? Which is actual truth? Self-righteousness leads in either case.