{"id":1778,"date":"2022-11-13T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/13\/relativism-and-dogmatism\/"},"modified":"2022-11-13T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T12:41:12","slug":"relativism-and-dogmatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/13\/relativism-and-dogmatism\/","title":{"rendered":"Relativism and Dogmatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/relativism-and-dogmatism?sd=pf\">latest<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">My <em>Substack<\/em> snowball is getting bigger and bigger. Time to monetize? Well, it&#39;s a labor of love and I&#39;ve got enough loot to last me my sublunary tenure, assuming the Dementocrat destruction of the economy is kept within certain bounds.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I believe that <em>Enough is Enough<\/em> when it comes to material stuff. Whatever we are here for, we are not here to pile up loot and land. You have heard it said that in the end a man needs only six feet. And not even that if the crematorium is his body&#39;s last stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">On the other hand, as foibled as we are psychologically, people tend to value more what they pay for. And if they are paying, then they may pay closer attention &#39;to get their money&#39;s worth.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Or maybe they think like this: &quot;This guy gives away his content for free; he must not think it is worth much.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">On the third hand, If I sell a product, then I am in thrall to my customers and must cater to their wants and desires. This thrall thwarts my independence. I&#39;m big on the latter.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">So you can expect my articles to stay free, free for me and free for thee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecp.yusercontent.com\/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2Ff_auto%2Cq_auto%3Abest%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fwilliamfvallicella.substack.com%252Fapi%252Fv1%252Fpress_kit%252F84343657.jpg%253FbgImage%253Dtrue%2526textColor%253D%252523ffffff%2526hash%253D308662517%2526version%253D9&amp;t=1668370680&amp;ymreqid=539185a9-86c9-e1c1-2f2c-5a00a1016700&amp;sig=oh6EupGVeonXDTpihqa6tw--~D\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest My Substack snowball is getting bigger and bigger. Time to monetize? Well, it&#39;s a labor of love and I&#39;ve got enough loot to last me my sublunary tenure, assuming the Dementocrat destruction of the economy is kept within certain bounds.&#0160; I believe that Enough is Enough when it comes to material stuff. Whatever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/13\/relativism-and-dogmatism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Relativism and Dogmatism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-substack","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}