Saturday, March 13, 2021

Fence Straddler?

Is Jordan a principled moderate like I am or is he a shameless self-promoter with one foot in the domain of Christianity, and the other foot conveniently positioned in the world of academic science, secular reasoning and biological psychology. In effect, is his insistent vagueness sincere, or can one suspect that his remaining non-committal is expedient, that he is being all things to all people to avoid being yelled at for choosing an ideological side, or reduce his reach or lose sales? I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he is a principled moderate. I believe he is a genius and original thinker. He is an ethicist of the first rank. He is an existentialist, loving truth and authentic living. He is an individualist, and a moderate, and an individualist that is a moderate, truly despise being pigeon-holed on one side of polarized, conflicting ideologies, or on the other. A principled moderate sees truth and falsehood, merit and deficiency in arguments both pro or con, about any view or ideological posture. It might help both the Christians and the educated, secular humanists, scientists and academics if he would clarify his fence-straddling outlook. One hint that he is a moderate not a fence-straddler is revealed when he speaks out against ideology. Both Eric Hoffer and Max Stirner also warned about the danger and lure of over-devotion to a totalistic, absolutist abstraction of any ilk.

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