LOOKING AT yesterday's posts this morning, I notice that I'd accidentally posted a rough draft of the long post instead of something more like one I'd want to post. I've gone through it and added some things that got deleted in the rough edit and fixed a couple of problems with verb agreement, something that's bound to happen when you decide to change a single or plural subject around.
Since materialism is a monistic ideology, holding that everything that exists is a product of material causation in line with what science claims about that, in responding to the real-life consequences of materialist-atheist-scientistic ideology I have every right to relate that to the very real political situation in which egalitarian democracy is thwarted and prevented and endangered, especially as those with academic credentials and a platform are undermining the very foundations of equality and democracy on behalf of that ideology, denying the reality of the possibility of freedom of thought. That seemingly academic polemical self-impeaching ideological struggle does have real life consequences, as can be seen in that ideology being held, either formally or loosely by some of the worst despots and mass murderers in history. Having Robert Sopolsky out there promoting the belief that free thought is impossible as Trump, with the neo-Stalinist, Putin's and Xi's support, is trying to destroy democracy in the U.S., in Europe and elsewhere has to count as among the most irresponsible antics by an academic yet in this century.
And it's on the basis of old-fashioned, outmoded, refuted biological orthodoxy which started to crumble about eight decades ago.
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