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My question to you is: are you in favour of the doxa or against it?

I am sceptical to intrinsic changes of cultural and societal values. In order to go against the mainstream, or against the "moral grain", one must step outside of (or detach oneself from) oneself in order to make onself the object of scrutiny, perhaps in the light of other cultures and values. Our moral conscience is nothing but a social construct. And what good is it to escape 'doxa' when the outcome will almost certainly entail expulsion, or exclusion, or seclusion? We're not only fooled by our senses in perceiving the world, or by ignorance, but by our fear. Science pundits can make their life choices based on fear - or, worse still, fear makes the choices for us. Some of them even react to aesthetic or let's say 'peripheral' truths with a malignant, infectious fear. They write and talk about their own discoveries in terms of winning battles and losing wars. So, does it really make any difference that the world is round? To whom?