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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (494705)7/16/2022 10:54:53 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 543227
 
The secular world does not plan much of anything, it evolves and where and how it evolves no one can know because it involves manifestations of more and more higher order thinking.

The secular world are the intellectual explorers.

Look at human history. The church was the arbiter of dogma, the conservatives, while the secular world, the progressives, leaned against that as they discovered more sophisticated truths.

The ancient Greeks, who really kick started science, deductive logic, ethics and democracy, did not plan any of it, it was all an outgrowth of learning, and where learning will lead no one knows.

But learning is the antitheses of dogma.
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The secular world must be careful not to become it's own versions of religions and dogma. The human mind often gets stuck whether politics or interpretation of data. Emotion can overrule reason; understanding is a process.

A lot is here, a chart I refer to with humility:

commons.wikimedia.org (click twice here for better quality.)
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