badgenome said:
richardhutnik said:
While one can argue that politically biased, driven by building a coalition to gain and maintain control over political offices is the near the bottom of the barrel as far as good goes (maybe just doing it for the money and having no ethics is worse), it doesn't mean being ideologically driven doesn't have its own problems and isn't good. Libertarians are a prime example of this, as would about any ideologically driven group. The problem is a denial of reality, which ends up doing biased filtering and seeing what is going on and adjust to it. And apparently Reason is even more ideologically driven than the Libertarian Party is, based on what you said. The ideologically driven person really doesn't do much in the world at all. MAYBE if they have a business, they can do things, but what they do has little to do with their ideology and more with how they serve and solve problems. There is the religious angle, and they have agendas. But I would say very likely anything they do that would fit the agenda would have to be tied back to actually serving people and doing things pragmatically.
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With a few exceptions like Eric Hoffer, writers generally don't do much in the world at all.
And since no human being is free from bias, it seems far sillier to put on a charade of acting like an objective source of information like the dinosaur networks do than to say, "Hey, we're libertarians. Here's what we think about this." It seems to me a far healthier and more honest approach because it's much easier to discuss things in an open manner when you're not expending energy on pretending to be a fair and unprejudiced arbiter of the facts.
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If someone goes to be informed to make a proper decision on something, you end up in a place where you are being sold to and spun, and the people with the agenda are being served, not the person going to get the information to be informed. Markets have reviewers who are trusted to help filter through this in things as simple as videogames. I would say that things far more important, like politics, also benefit from this also.
