Taking a break to edit the lined up "Bullyboy blogs". The character assassination of Africans who provide the ONLY affordable supply to the demand for television and internet in rapidly urbanizing nations is bad enough. Spending tax money and diverting limited Interpol resources from Transfigura dumping and ivory and big cat poaching is despicable. But I need a cool-down, to focus and edit the blog.
In the meantime, I thought I'd coined a new word, but found it exists in the dictionary.
I was responding to an "Upworthy" post on Global Warming "debate", which is sharing a ConsensusProject graph. The graph seems to say that a majority of people are not as smart as informed scientists are, which is no doubt true (almost to the point of being tautological. If everyone knows what a scientific researcher knows, it kind of doesn't speak well of the pursuit).
Still, I was then struck by the Upworthy punchline:
But I also notice this (as I commented on the Upworthy Facebook post).
I've seen it over and over, and I observe it in myself. When I'm being polled, the first question I ask back is "who is paying for this poll?". There are some genuine polls out there. But it seems like most of the polling I'm subjected to has a funder with a confirmation bias. A political candidate, a party, or some other agenda.
Solutionism, like most other 'isms', is something a lot of us want to "step away slowly" from.
In the meantime, I thought I'd coined a new word, but found it exists in the dictionary.
Noun[edit]
solutionism (uncountable)
- The belief that all difficulties have benign solutions, often of a technocratic nature.
- The providing of a solution or solutions to a customer or client.
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I was responding to an "Upworthy" post on Global Warming "debate", which is sharing a ConsensusProject graph. The graph seems to say that a majority of people are not as smart as informed scientists are, which is no doubt true (almost to the point of being tautological. If everyone knows what a scientific researcher knows, it kind of doesn't speak well of the pursuit).
Still, I was then struck by the Upworthy punchline:
You might know people who fall in the black part of the first graph. Maybe you could show this to them?You know what, I do. I know conservatives. I myself believe it's obvious the world is warming, slightly less obvious what the primary reason is, but obvious that carbon emission doesn't help. So far, I'm ok with my liberal friends here.
But I also notice this (as I commented on the Upworthy Facebook post).
I've seen it over and over, and I observe it in myself. When I'm being polled, the first question I ask back is "who is paying for this poll?". There are some genuine polls out there. But it seems like most of the polling I'm subjected to has a funder with a confirmation bias. A political candidate, a party, or some other agenda.
Solutionism, like most other 'isms', is something a lot of us want to "step away slowly" from.
