“Truth is not the default . . . it is an exceptional, fragile, improbable achievement.” (@danwilliamsphil)
Just as material poverty, not wealth, has been the historical norm and baseline for human societies, “epistemic” wealth is a historically new result of norms and institutions built painstakingly out of the genealogy that gave rise to and has continued to develop from the scientific revolution.
“Lies, conspiracy theories, misinformation, bias, pseudo-science, superstition and so on are not alien perversions of the public sphere. They are the epistemic state of nature that society will revert to in the absence of fragile—and highly contingent—cultural and institutional achievements.”
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