A Coalition of Reason

Again I get carried away by the warmth in the chest, the enthusiasm of hearing like-minded people singing tunes that I had quietly whistled only to myself. I can’t help but waver between the energy of a worthy cause and the scepticism of my own doubter nature.

Weinstein had a great exchange with Jordan Peterson, a rather right-wing yet careful and compassionate thinker, on Joe Rogan’s podcast, below. The nearly three-hours long exchange between ‘deeply progressive’ Weinstein and a Classical British-like Liberal (both self-described as such, respectively), culturally conservative professor leaves a lot of hay to mow but represents a shining example of Hegelian Synthesis of Opposites that breaks away with the prevailing malaise of political eco-chambers.

As put by Jonathan Haidt in his The Righteous Mind, Humans are reputation-seeking, not truth-seeking beings. That is why I fear, in all hopes of being proved wrong, that coalitions bridging the political centre are by nature and necessity, of hard maintenance. Claire Lehmann twitter’s bio puts it beautifully: Principle before affiliation. Though highly commendable, this blason already sets any eventual coalition in peril of breaking apart, victim of its own centrifugal forces of inner dissent. How to hijack diversity of thought to make a force cohesive and united rather than just numerous, is the main challenge.

The only game in town for seeking Objective Truth is science. Scientists get reputation points not only for proposing models of reality that are successful in predicting phenomena, but also in finding errors in their own assumptions, and other’s. A Coalition of Reason should perhaps imitate this mechanism as to bind, make reputation persistently contingent on intellectual honesty, instead of pretending that one is only interested on the latter and not the former.

A Coalition of Reason will then have to adhere to rather axiomatic principles of people’s wellbeing that are reasonable and morally desirable, no matter what our personal moral ontology comes from.

In the economical front, I’ll risk to include the rather tongue-in-cheek tweet of Pablo Gerchunoff, professor of Economical History in Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, a self-described “Left Libertarian”:

“Synthesis between [economical] Liberalism and New Communism: Expropriate everything, distribute shares of all companies in an egalitarian way, hire administrators and let it compete on the free-market”

Shikata ga nai (仕方が無い), it cannot be helped, the Japanese would say. But if being conscious of the life cycle of a political movement can serve of anything, A Coalition of Reason should be prepared to endure and embrace these inevitable divisions and transform once again a centrifugal force into a source of strength.

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