Hi Maarten. I first came across this topic with a 2017 New Yorker article by Elizabeth Kolbert called "Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds." In short, she's saying that discussion, logic, reasoning are not so much tools for finding facts or "the truth" as they are tools that create or define social groups... "are you with us or against us?" rather than "the truth will set you free!" So rather than labelling us Homo sapiens we should be Homo socialis.
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Hi Maarten. I first came across this topic with a 2017 New Yorker article by Elizabeth Kolbert called "Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds." In short, she's saying that discussion, logic, reasoning are not so much tools for finding facts or "the truth" as they are tools that create or define social groups... "are you with us or against us?" rather than "the truth will set you free!" So rather than labelling us Homo sapiens we should be Homo socialis.