This used to be the domain of hermeneutics and the reason for teaching classical thought.
@plinz
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Analyzing Cognitive Bias: Beyond Ideological Perception
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Feelings and perception don't have to be ideologically biased, you can analyze and correct them and the underlying generators
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Subsymbolic cognition and justified reasoning in human intelligence
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When we don’t have decisive rational arguments, we resort to the subsymbolic faculties of our mind. Their output manifests as imaginations and feelings. As we grow up, we learn to analyze the structure and justification of our feelings, especially the feeling of justification.
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Academic Integrity and Ideological Suppression in Scientific Discourse
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My criticism is not directed to the leftist political camp. The far right has an infamous track record in maintaining scientific integrity. The problem is an academic culture that allows ideologues to suppress rational arguments, prevent debate and understanding.
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Academic Integrity and Scientific Truth in Higher Education
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Academics have to get back to pursuing and enforcing a rigorously truthful and rational (ie scientific) representation of reality, one that works for all rational members of our society, regardless of their political affiliation. We need integrity, not indoctrination.
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Political Polarization Prevents Shared Understanding Across Ideological Lines
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I have seem elite boomers from opposing camps establishing shared understanding of the ground truth, but not millennial leftist academics with millenial rightist industrialists. The current political parties live in completely different universes.
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University Ideology and Merit-Based Admissions in Elite Institutions
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Elite universities cannot be places of ideological dissemination. There cannot be job or student acceptance restrictions for applicants who don’t share the political opinions of a dominant social media clique.
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Harvard Tech Elite’s Influence on Politics and Media Since 2000
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Old Harvardians gravely reasoned about the political calculus of sharing power in the service of political stability, national interest and existing players. After 2000, media, politics and public administration received two generations of social media cultists from Harvard.
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PNAC collapse institutional takeover ideological homogenization
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The collapse of the PNAC and the ideological cult dynamics of social media led to an institutional takeover by ideologically homogenized academics, who were not even aware of their radicalization, and experienced every outgroup as extremist instead.
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Elite fragmentation: academics versus tech entrepreneurs competing for power
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Elites often have their own specific games, which may evolve and lead them to mutually exclude and despise each other: eg. politics oriented academics vs. tech entrepreneurs. In the past, these elites shared power.