There is no such thing as the unbiased view. I was thinking about that as I was reading this article, “The New Scientism.”

It’s most prevalent among engineering types, but even in science there is the belief that there is some platonic ideal viewpoint from which to make decisions and to pursue paths of inquiry.

This is a fiction; there is no human realm free of bias or of politics.

Even choosing what to study itself is a result of bias, of unconscious prioritization, and of what one has been taught is important to see.

This isn’t a groundbreaking insight or anything. It is rather obvious. However, rather obvious things are often not convenient for corporations and their lackeys, as well as governments, their solons and their pencil-pushers, so are often denied by large portions of the population.

Propaganda, after all, is extremely effective and promulgating the idea that there is just no other way to do things is one of the most effective pieces of such mind control ever devised.