cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3910342
Clipped this last night to share here, I’ve probably watched it 20 times since I found it on Thursday
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3910342
Clipped this last night to share here, I’ve probably watched it 20 times since I found it on Thursday
Even outside of what people normally think of “politics”, the difference between investigating with a framework behind it and trying to theorize alone is night and day. Or as Mao put it:
Bold emphasis mine. Even if not in the same exact capacity as what Mao describes, I’ve been that blockhead plenty of times throughout my own life.
I figure people who end up there generally mean well and sometimes they have a good point, but even then, there’s a discernible difference between criticism based on hypothesizing and criticism based on investigation.
Anyway, it’s a good speech. We do what we can with what we have and from that, we try to form something that can do more and better than what we were doing before. That’s all we can do. And sometimes it’s learning how to form something that is itself part of the struggle. We don’t know what we don’t know and can’t find it via thinking alone.