Feynman on censorship

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[–]dontbuyanylogos[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You've attributed a lot of beliefs to me that I don't necessarily hold.

The bottom line is, although you're right, the picture of the world you paint forgets the kind of authority exercised by the church in the middle ages, the kind of authority that claims to alone speak for God and uses this authority to impose its will on the masses (burning them alive as a result). The point is not that there is no such thing as authority, the point is that there is unfortunately such a thing as deliberate mass deception and those who wish to practice this craft gravitate to positions of indisputable authority, not because there's anything necessarily wrong with authority in itself but because deceivers need the shield of indisputable authority to protect themselves from apocalypse.

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The religious authorities who are the most aggressive at claiming authority are among the most bogus con artists of all. But real authority exists on some things some times.

[–]dontbuyanylogos[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

yeh I agree, I respect fair and honest authority but I just recognise that in order to discern who's honest and who's not you need freedom (of lots of things, speech and thought being the most important)

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Free speech seems like peanut butter sandwiches these days. Healthy for some of us. Severe allergic reaction for almost as many others: vaxines change your dna, stop the steal, masks will kill us, where we go one we go all... Critical thinking needs to happen more. Trusting authority is dangerous. Distrusting authority is dangerous. Authority used to tell us to be racist. Now authority tells us not to be homophobic.