Re: Mind's Eye insouciance

Now my head has cleared up to think.. You are very right. The question is now how do I combat. It. I wonder if it is possible to create Micro Government? 

Do No Harm

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 4:20 AM archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:
One way to make sense of recent political events is to reflect on the role of epistemic
insouciance in political debate. Epistemic insouciance is a casual lack of concern or
carelessness about the facts, an indifference to whether one's assertions have any basis in
reality. It implies an excessively nonchalant attitude towards the challenge of finding answers
to complex questions, partly as a result of a tendency to view such questions as less complex
than they really are. The primary product of epistemic insouciance is bullshit in Harry
Frankfurt's sense. Epistemic insouciance is an epistemic posture rather than a stance. It is an
epistemic vice, both in the sense that it gets in the way of knowledge and is blameworthy or
otherwise reprehensible. Epistemic insouciance is different from epistemic malevolence. The
latter is a stance rather than a posture. Epistemic insouciance is illustrated by the conduct of
some parties to the Brexit debate in the UK. A compelling example of epistemic malevolence
is the 'tobacco strategy'.

Is this a term (insouciance) we cab all use in thinking of our political and social conditions?

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