Zygmunt Bauman was a Marxist. He had a lot of piss-poor ideas. He was against national borders and very supportive of mass migration. I have no idea how he managed to make that particular kind of raving lunacy coexist with the rest of his ideas but there you have it.
In reading Bauman, I discarded all of the stuff that doesn’t interest me and used what does to develop my own ideas. That’s the approach I recommend to everybody.
Rafael Chirbes, my favorite writer, was a Communist. Michel Foucault was a raging pedo. But Foucault came up with the expression “entrepreneurs of the self” which laid the foundations of the thinking on neoliberal subjectivity.
What I’m saying is that we can give ourselves over to the outrage that other people are not perfect and sometimes downright shitty, or we can resist this self-righteous impulse and find nuggets of value wherever they exist.
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Only ideologists see everything through the lens of their own ideology. Thinking means you’re always open to reality and to taking it for what it is, evaluating your opinions and ideas in the light of all the data available, and adjusting , modifying and rejecting ideas and opinions as needed as you go along.
They call it critical thinking or scientific method, but if thinking is not critical it’s not thinking.
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