Identity and Judgement

The capacity for identity and for judgement arise together. You cannot have one without the other. You cannot know who you are unless you know who you are not. You cannot know what to do without a sense of what not to do.

The root benefits of political pluralism and the location of conscience with the individual–which is the root idea of so-called “Individuslism”, and obviously not the selfishness alleged by propagandists–is the creation of many overlapping, nuanced, graded perspectives. In a group evaluation of a topic, participated in by psychologically individuated, mature in-dividuals, truth gets closely approximated.

The opposite is EITHET the tyrant, or submersion in a mass directed by a tyrant or tyrants.

In my view you can and should judge people by the nuance and consideration of their views. The more you here propagandistic memes, the less should you consider them psychologically sovereign, individuated, and worthy of the trust a democratic system implies.

More later. Work to do.