(April 23, 2025 at 5:30 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(April 23, 2025 at 4:53 pm)Belacqua Wrote: The best analysis of why political parties interfere with progress is surely Simone Weil's On the Abolition of All Political Parties. Here she makes a persuasive case that by aligning ourselves with a party, instead of just focussing on the truth, we turn ourselves away from the truth. It's true she writes from a Christian perspective, but because she was a philosopher, the God she writes about is entirely different from the God that we argue against on this forum. For her (as for Plato and most philosophers) God is simply the true and the good. And since you also feel that at least some parties turn people away from the truth, this is a profitable thing to read.
What becomes of the politics of the possible and the overton window?
I've been told I'm not supposed to discuss politics any more.
