Fallibilism is the epistemological thesis that no belief (theory, view, thesis, and so on) can ever be rationally supported or justified in a conclusive way. Always, there remains a possible doubt as to the truth of the belief. Fallibilism applies that assessment even to science’s best-entrenched claims and to people’s best-loved commonsense views.
Truthiness, man, truthiness.
There was a time–a period that roughly paralleled the Clinton Presidency–that I didn’t give a shit about politics. Well, that’s not exactly accurate. I was young and naive enough to believe that the Raygun Revolution was a brief speed bump on the road to the realization of the American Dream.
Then came the Bush 2000 fiasco, and the following six years.
Needless to say I was radicalized. I won’t go into the personal details. I did that on my last blog and that lead to a dead end. I was lefter than left…or something. Protested the RNC in 04′ and several other large events of a similar nature. I was still under the impression that I lived in the Democracy they taught about in grade school.
Now I’m not sure what I believe. If I believe in anything at all.
To be continued.
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Now…don’t be hard on yourself…