The CTH podcasters. Nathan J. Robinson. Contrapoints. Thought Slime. Shaun. Michael Moore. hbomberguy. Hasan. Destiny. Vaush. Tim Pool. Ollie. Joe Rogan. Bernie. Maddox. Vic Berger. Carlos Maza. Ezra Klein. Jon Bois. Lindsay Ellis. Dave Rubin. Sarah Z. David Icke.
Everyone has been lambasted as a lib and imperfect and a grifter.
So who's left? Who's good enough that their word is gospel?
Eh, I don't think that being limited knowers as individuals and also as a species gets you all the way to "we'll never see the full picture." We have our limits, sure, but together when we collaborate we help overcome these limits through social measures like writing books or conducting studies so that others don't need to start from scratch. I guess it depends on what you consider the "full picture," I just see libs use this line of reasoning dogmatically to undermine leftist class analysis as just another "perspective."
Well yes. It would be a mistake to determine just because we can't know everything that we are doomed to individually conceived perceptions of the world. We are still capable of sharing our knowledge and experience and compiling a more comprehensive understanding of the world. The lines of reasoning which stand up this collective critique and are verified by the accumulation of empirical evidence stand out and prove most useful. My point is mainly that, by the time you turn epistemology into a collaborative project, no single person is dictating it. No single person's word is the "gospel."
I see what you mean now, this is how I understand it as well