I think their statistical, ratioinalized world is actually a simulacrum. Taking that away is unbearable.Well said @Regina I didn’t really see it quite this way before covid. But it’s been there all along. I think someone else upthread also mentioned that most people most of the time just don’t want to think about how their health care pro or the media comes up with their schlock.
Also, the op paper makes good points if you are engaging someone who is living in the statistical, rationalized world. But it really is only rationalism also. Good maybe for opening a conversation with someone, but I don’t see it as an empirical position. If I were using that I’d try to move quickly to a more empirical point.
Yes. I guess I'll the op paper a try.
I also like the book Heart Attack Sutra.
The Heart Attack Sutra
The radical message of the Heart Sū tra, one of Buddhism's most famous texts, is a sweeping attack on everything we hold most dear: our ...
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