It's an important and interesting topic...I know you will find this incredulous: I've near emptied myself of bias over the course of my life! One of the things which helped me do that (besides entheogens) is to not care what the truth is! Now that seems weird, I get that....But if one is able to cultivate non-attachment to ideas and desires one can come to a place of uncertainty.
Now, to be fair, over the course of 40 years, starting at 19, I consciously and willfully set out on a search seeking the nature of reality and I've been relentless in my pursuit! I now hold about 5 or 6 cosmologies to be possible as far as what and who we are; and yes, the atheist worldview is right up at the top, but I don't hold the view tightly--I'm not attached to it....I describe myself today as an agnostic gnostic....Can you hold paradox in an aperspectival mode of cognition?
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Interesting idea, i would say you can BUT it can clash violently with reality, having a natural bias is something you kind of have to have as a human being in order to be able to asymmetrically identify when you need to have a bias, for example i'm pretty sure you aren't bias free if someone ran at you with a knife haha.
The main problem with not having either a philosophical bias or reality based bias is that the entire world has one, so living without it can be tricky, it's sorta like trying to use ethics with people who are unethical, it's great that you are ethical but now you're missing your wallet haha.
Great comment though man, this is what iv'e been hoping to have on my blog for a while now.
Thanks! Of course, I'm a white male, that is my genetic bias, but I am not attached to being a white male as I can consider myriad perspectives from all races and genders. I'm culturally Canadian but I don't Identify with Canada, all nations deserve dignity and respect.
In the end, if life is to survive on this planet, humans have to become world-centric, but that can't happen via deeply cynical manipulative tactics like Cultural Marxism. Humans need to be free; Cultural Marxism is the antithesis of freedom, IMO.....
That's a bit of a different topic, i will say though, nationalism at the moment is the only thing keeping the right from devouring the left, i'm firmly a western culture "nationalist" i guess you'd say, being a student of history there's a very long and bloody history as to why we came out on top and why have to keep on top for the time being.
There's a very big difference between the Australian government and the Somalian government if you get my drift haha.
But i fully agree about Cultural Marxism, it's an absolute cancer that's pushing us closer to civil war every day.
Physical exhaustion makes my mind prone to wondering:)
I was using nations generically referring to groups of people ( usually homogeneous); we don't need to respect immoral or amoral leaders or irrational over-arching grand narratives like The Koran when it is used as a tool of cultural hegemony. That said, Muslims shouldn't be used as pawns in a dubious 'Game of Thrones' whether religious (Israeli) or corporate (resource extraction)...
Again, excellent topic:)