• Sarah Valentine (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    Even if you bet on the right horse

    As if there were any other way to hold any kind of opinion about what could be beyond the bounds of reality as we know it, but to just bet on shit we don’t know the first thing about. It’s all just bets. Nobody knows and everyone is pretending that not only are they right but their rightness is of a superior quality than the claimed rightness of others. They’re still all just blind morons betting on horse races that are fixed by minds far closer to the truth and in control of it than they.

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      The people standing in the park trying to tease out which horse is fastest from previous observations have the advantage over anyone just going with their feelings.

      They especially have the advantage over the people standing outside who are pretending there are magical centaurs in the park that grant wishes if you’re not gay.

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        The people standing in the park trying to tease out which horse is fastest from previous observations have the advantage over anyone just going with their feelings.

        No, the metaphor breaks down at that point because there is no peeking over the wall, there is no listening to talk from inside the stables. We’re not even at the track. It’s all shit that is beyond observation, beyond calculation, beyond any kind of verification or validation. It is a thing nobody has any good reason to act like they know anything about in a scientific capacity.