@mattyglesias If you listen to @lexfridman’s pod you’ll come across a few. Including Lex who has the ability to bring out the best in almost every smart person by asking great questions
@technotweet@Plinz Yes. Agreed. DEI, for example, has laudable goals of equality and inclusion for all. But because it emerged from postmodern academic theory, its loudest proponents can only use the lense of power, so they try to use power themselves = cancelling, DEI statements, and racialism
@Plinz It’s not a complete epistemological position for sure. It was a reaction to positivism and so serves a purpose. We agree that it’s not a valid place to stay. Neither is modernism (or pre modern Aristotleism, Platonism etc). We include and transcend all those who came before us
@Plinz You use a model of human cognitive development and have integrated postmodernism - it challenged the modern idea that we can know absolute truth. Meta modernists like you are able to hold polarities such as “we are able to know true things”, and “all knowledge is a construct”
@numbern57323948 The average Canadian’s net worth is US$375,800. 8th in the world. More than those in France, UK, Germany, and Japan. By most measures Canada IS one of the most wealthy countries in the world
@paulg You’re equating innate potential with realized ability. They’re not the same. Access to education, training, finances, capital are self evidently part of creating “the best” in actuality