Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in Maplewood with his wife Beverly.
This is utterly reasonable, which means that it will probably not get through to the people who need it the most — that is, those people who say that “reason” is a tool of the white male patriarchy, and, as such, is just another tool of oppression. How does one use reason to argue with people who say that their “lived experience” is all that matters, and that reason itself is invalid?
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This is utterly reasonable, which means that it will probably not get through to the people who need it the most — that is, those people who say that “reason” is a tool of the white male patriarchy, and, as such, is just another tool of oppression. How does one use reason to argue with people who say that their “lived experience” is all that matters, and that reason itself is invalid?