And I think that’s the real power of dialectical materialism, it creates a level of understanding that makes you immune to the sophistry that the propagandists use.
Yes, well said. The science of it is a huge deal in political literacy. It’s much easier to be deceived without it because without it we’re depending on bougie science like idealism and metaphysics, and as those are insufficient to explain things, trying to wrack one’s brains to work things out through them tends to end up with a lot of going in circles and a lot of “I guess people are stupid or something”. When you’re armed with the science of it, normally incomprehensible behavior has an explanatory process behind it that can be investigated and analyzed, one of clashing contradictions and development through phases. Things that seemed like impenetrable mysteries before become a lot more doable to understand.
Exactly, being able to see the root causes and then trace how they connect to the symptoms we observe is at the crux of actually understanding what’s going on.
Yes, well said. The science of it is a huge deal in political literacy. It’s much easier to be deceived without it because without it we’re depending on bougie science like idealism and metaphysics, and as those are insufficient to explain things, trying to wrack one’s brains to work things out through them tends to end up with a lot of going in circles and a lot of “I guess people are stupid or something”. When you’re armed with the science of it, normally incomprehensible behavior has an explanatory process behind it that can be investigated and analyzed, one of clashing contradictions and development through phases. Things that seemed like impenetrable mysteries before become a lot more doable to understand.
Exactly, being able to see the root causes and then trace how they connect to the symptoms we observe is at the crux of actually understanding what’s going on.