Just for the record, the art of mass manipulation was brought to modern form by Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) considered a pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, and referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations".

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Walter Lippman was Bernays' unacknowledged American mentor and Lippman's work The Phantom Public greatly influenced the ideas expressed in Propaganda a year later. — BC

If you were to watch old TV shows you might notice cultural differences between the 1950's and the present. The original Star Trek TV shows contrasted with the Next Generation Star Trek TV shows is an excellent example of what the change in education did to our culture. Captain Kirk is the John Wayne of outer space and Picard is the "Group Think" generation. — Athena

Without irony I say - I think it's simpler here in the US - the Republicans did it. — T Clark

And this is made possible by adopting the German model of bureaucracy. Before Hoover and Roosevelt worked together to give us Big Government, the US government was relatively weak. — Athena

Are you saying it is not values that lead to shoddy construction, prolonged disrepair, and entropy?

I remember the older people who all about honesty and human dignity.

I just wanted feedback on my objection to mysterianism. — RogueAI

[W]e are destroying our democracy as all our institutions are failing. — Athena

I worry for my children. We know from history the world sometimes does go to hell. — T Clark

1) Can objects be understood without reference to human subjectivity? — schopenhauer1

2) Is it even wise to try to overlook the human aspect to all knowledge?

Is this not only a fool's errand but somehow anti-human or is this just trying to take out a pernicious anthropomorphism that might lead to a more open field of exploration?

Also, when you say it won’t be Joe Biden as the nominee — care to bet on that too? — Mikie

In fact, I think idealism is the obvious solution. — RogueAI

What is nihilism? It is variously expressed as the idea that nothing is real, or that nothing has any real meaning. — Wayfarer

Does theism as a philosophical position, act as a valid support for religious doctrine? — universeness

Btw, I'm in no way a 'mysterian'. — 180 Proof

Does mysterianism entail that all brains in the universe cannot understand consciousness, or just us? — RogueAI

So, is a persons claim that they are a religious philosopher, the inevitable beginning of losing/rationalising away, their [own] religion? — universeness

Against the common view that philosophy is a two-thousand-year-old failing enterprise, a body of thought that has produced no knowledge, couldn’t we say that philosophy has in fact done pretty well in bringing dominant beliefs into question, revealing their incoherence or baselessness, or just submitting them to rational enquiry? — Jamal

Btw, philosophizing began for me in encounters with (raw) stupidity of other teens and adults, then authority figures and institutions, finally profound failures and missed opportunities I'd discovered throughout the histories I'd studied. Recognizing stupidity as endemic to the human condition was my initial existential crisis (i.e. despair) at 16/17 from which, over four decades later, I've still not recovered. — 180 Proof

Reality is a donut-hole, or nothing out of something. — Thus Spoke 180 Proof

Marriage [Love] is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage [love again] is the triumph of hope over experience. — Oscar Wilde

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. — Toni Morrison

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek

I regard him as a philosopher. He is a practioner of philosophy – Donald Trump; and he is a philosopher of fuckyouism. — Steve Schmidt, former GOP senior campaign advisor, from discussion with former Senator Al Franken (D-MN), podcast 7 May 2023

However how then is there an "opposite to science". — Benj96

For me its not "science or .." but rather "science and..." 

For me the term "pseudoscience" is a fancy way of disregarding/dismissing or making inferior or supposedly obsolete all other pursuits outside the realm of science, philosophy ofc being one of them.

How would it make you feel? — Benj96

Ideals exist for a reason.

Realism[Reals] also exists for a reason.

How do approach them?

How do you think we ought navigate such a dynamic?

Where does ethics fall into this? — Benj96

Is it [ethics] pseudoscience? I

Do you have evidence that the butterfly retains no knowledge of its time as a caterpillar? — universeness

Might the butterfly maintain much of the 'mind' of the caterpillar?

I suppose it's a process.
A slow painful process of overcoming self doubt and learned helplessness. — HarryHarry

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels. — Albert Einstein (1946)

We are the cure.

Nihilism seems moderately rare ... — Tom Storm

Can you point to any religion that does not have some notion of transcendence as central? — Janus

I always liked Ambrose Bierce's definition:

“Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” — Tom Storm

Would you say that they are all devoid to true content (in their claims)? — Hallucinogen

But what about the claims of religions, are those incompatible, or are you unsure?

Are you saying mythology itself holds this view or that the universe of each myth entails incompatability with all others? — Hallucinogen