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[–]Wrangel 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It is kind of funny since at any alt right meetup irl nearly everyone who has a degree is a STEM major. The alt right is generally very programmer heavy. But, it does seem like a lot of the public faces are philosophy majors.

I agree that Dutton tries to explain everything under the sun with genetics and biology, and that has ideology is a bit weak. But, I still enjoy him and find him valuable since he is good at his science. Dutton is worth watching if you scale down his claims by a factor of three.

[–]LGBTQIAIDSAnally Injected Death Sentence 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If your first paragraph is correct, and I have no reason to doubt it, then there is a large and rather unobserved discrepancy between content creators and the run-of-the-mill commenter who likes, upvotes, comments, etc. but does not upload. I suppose then that the philosophers are more interested in becoming 'public faces' or 'public intellectuals' than the scientists and others. It's a tough one: I usually think of philosophers as tending towards introversion, but our version of them conversely tend to be very talkative. I suppose it isn't impossible. Many of the Ancient Greek philosophers, often living in communes with the like-minded and writing very little (or nothing in the case of Socrates, who was averse to writing), clearly would have talked more than they wrote.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the sort of person who studies philosophy in the present day is likely far more extroverted than your average STEM major. Along with that those who study philosophy are much more likely to come across arguments against the current paradigm than any other subject I can think of. Nowhere else in academia do you really get the opportunity to study schools of thoughts that are so opposed to modernity.