Conservative EPISTEMOLOGY is one of anti-hubris: a prohibition on consensus buil

Conservative EPISTEMOLOGY is one of anti-hubris: a prohibition on consensus building, and an emphasis on demonstrated evidence in SOCIAL MATTERS. It is a form of skepticism. Or in critical rationalism, we would say ‘criticism’, and therefore ‘scientific’.

Progressive EPISTEMOLOGY is one of consensus-building where intentions rather than outcomes matter. It is a form of optimism

The reason being is that progressivism does not seek truth but to expand numbers regardless of quality, where conservatism seeks truth to minimize their numbers and maximize quality.

Or, the feminine progressive strategy and the masculine conservative strategy.

We have no idea what we are doing, we just justify our intuitions. Underneath it is all reproductive instincts and nothing else.

So conservatives use rational, arational and irrational means to cause us to act scientifically, while progressives use rational, arational, and irrational means to cause us to act unscientifically – as an extended organization wherein each of us has only fragmentary knowledge.

This is quite profound really.