egon said in #4691 7d ago:
What does it feel like to be Galileo? What is heretical truth?
The modern West does not recognize the traditional religious concept of heresy. Marilyn Manson with his upside down cross, piss crucefix in the art museum, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, it's all very stale and boomer. That horse is dead. We make a partial exception for Islam: if you paint Mohammed on a canvas, gallery curators will pretend through pressed lips that it doesn't exist, your emails will go unanswered, your calls dropped, and viciously butthurt swarths might kill you. But this is imposed from outside and below. Our own religious heresies, enforced from above by Pope and King, are long gone.
But religious or not, every society has heresy. Almost every; a heresy-free society is a rare jewel if you can keep it. We have no such jewel. Our heresy is the Blank Slate. We are giving you an OPPORTUNITY to CLARIFY. Surely you are a not Bad, you just made a mistake borne of privilege. Surely you are not an unfortunate, a deplorable, a sad man whose weak mind lacks defense against UNTRUTH and EVIL perpetrated by racist supremacists. We are giving you one last chance. You must DENOOOONCE.
But he did not denoonce.
Our modern Galileo is James Watson. A brilliant man, a true scientist, who gave up all of his awards and recognition to hold on to the truth. We will know we've won once James Watson is broadly recognized as a hero. We have not won yet. May he rest in peace.
The modern West does not recognize the traditional religious concept of heresy. Marilyn Manson with his upside down cross, piss crucefix in the art museum, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, it's all very stale and boomer. That horse is dead. We make a partial exception for Islam: if you paint Mohammed on a canvas, gallery curators will pretend through pressed lips that it doesn't exist, your emails will go unanswered, your calls dropped, and viciously butthurt swarths might kill you. But this is imposed from outside and below. Our own religious heresies, enforced from above by Pope and King, are long gone.
But religious or not, every society has heresy. Almost every; a heresy-free society is a rare jewel if you can keep it. We have no such jewel. Our heresy is the Blank Slate. We are giving you an OPPORTUNITY to CLARIFY. Surely you are a not Bad, you just made a mistake borne of privilege. Surely you are not an unfortunate, a deplorable, a sad man whose weak mind lacks defense against UNTRUTH and EVIL perpetrated by racist supremacists. We are giving you one last chance. You must DENOOOONCE.
But he did not denoonce.
Our modern Galileo is James Watson. A brilliant man, a true scientist, who gave up all of his awards and recognition to hold on to the truth. We will know we've won once James Watson is broadly recognized as a hero. We have not won yet. May he rest in peace.
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