"Do you mind describing your bias so we can assign you an author rating? Either Left, Lean Left, Center, Lean Right, or Right."
That was what the team at AllSides asked me, in order to publish my op-ed on their site. It’s a tough question for obvious reasons. I used to call myself a "Promiscuous Pragmatic Pluralist,” but that wasn't an option.
So I held my nose and called myself...well, you'll have to read the op-ed to find out 😉
If the populace is under systematic injustices for a long while, their literal epigenetic expression changes and they either become "docile" or "hyper charged" on different narratives, which is exploited by the prevailing systems.
How would the thesis, anti thesis and synthesis approach be tailored according to above mentioned circumstances? How do we cut through all that genetic and psychological baggage to find some real common ground?
Alliteration is clearly a mark of literary merit, Promiscuous Pragmatic Pluralist. We share so many tantalizingly theatrical thoughts in common! I just published a piece on this very subject today. "Medicine GOOD?! Medicine BAD?! No. Surviving a Captured 'Medical Industrial Complex,'" https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffthomasblack/p/medicine-good-medicine-bad-no-blindspots-drmartymakary?r=1sia9r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web