When someone uses a word like "reason" or "objective" in the name of a partisan organization or publication, it says something extraordinarily revealing about their capacities: that they probably lack the basic ability to understand how interpretation works — or how reason works, for that matter.
They have likely never contemplated the fact that an opinion (to say nothing of an entire philosophy or ideology) is the result of a long process that starts (consciously) with unprovable assumptions, and quite a bit before that, with inaccessible, unconscious thought. Or if they have contemplated it, they've never really understood the fact that it applies to them too.
They probably believe they make no assumptions, or that their only assumption is some generic, pious nonsense like "human dignity/freedom/industry is the highest good." They assume that anyone who has a different opinion than them is being dishonest somehow, or simply doesn't know how to use "reason," or be "objective."
It's fine to say you're on the side of "the farmers" or "the people," or even "the church." It's okay to say you're on the side of the angels — if you didn't think that, you'd switch sides, right? But if you tell me your ideology is a representation of "reason" or "objectivity," it will be hard to take anything you say seriously.
They have likely never contemplated the fact that an opinion (to say nothing of an entire philosophy or ideology) is the result of a long process that starts (consciously) with unprovable assumptions, and quite a bit before that, with inaccessible, unconscious thought. Or if they have contemplated it, they've never really understood the fact that it applies to them too.
They probably believe they make no assumptions, or that their only assumption is some generic, pious nonsense like "human dignity/freedom/industry is the highest good." They assume that anyone who has a different opinion than them is being dishonest somehow, or simply doesn't know how to use "reason," or be "objective."
It's fine to say you're on the side of "the farmers" or "the people," or even "the church." It's okay to say you're on the side of the angels — if you didn't think that, you'd switch sides, right? But if you tell me your ideology is a representation of "reason" or "objectivity," it will be hard to take anything you say seriously.