NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobertLumley 03 April 2012 01:42:13AM 4 points [-]

It starts to seem, as Albert Camus once put it, that we’ve made the mind into an armed camp—in which not only politicians and legislative proposals, but moral philosophies, artworks, even scientific theories, have to wear the insignia of one or the other army

Does anyone know the exact quote to which he is referring here?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 April 2012 09:47:52PM 10 points [-]

We've reached the point where the weather is political, and so are third person pronouns.

Comment author: Multiheaded 10 April 2012 02:26:14PM 2 points [-]

Well, third-person pronouns were always political - it's just that only the last century's shift in values and ideological attitudes has allowed the spread of gender-neutral pronouns. Before that the issue was taken to be completely one-sided.

Comment author: hairyfigment 10 April 2012 02:33:39PM 1 point [-]

Conversely, evolution does not count as "political" here because we all belong to one camp. (Posted from Louisiana.)

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