just a shower thought today, glad I found a good base image for it
I prefer to think of it this way:
Idealism: The belief that ideas shape the world around us, that humans have ideas and then those ideas change material conditions.
Materialism: The belief instead that material conditions shape human ideas. That the conditions humans find themselves in create the ideas they have.
Or, what comes first? The idea of a chicken? Or the egg?
Everyone who talks like this should have a pile of philosophy of science anthologies dropped on them.
as I said, it was a good base image for my shitposting purposes
I’m tired of acting like liberalism has any basis in material reality
That isn’t what either of those words mean
mostly just a shitpost after reading that NYT article that was posted:
liberal economists are priests of the capital order etc
