Neo-Gnosticism, ideology and the culture wars: the contemplative antidote – perennial tensions: a reply to Jersak
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Abstract
This reply speaks to Brad Jersak's analysis of the left–right culture wars spectrum and his critique of identity politics. He offers an alternative rooted in his studies of George P. Grant and Simone Weil's notion of the primacy of the Good vis-à-vis the triumph of the will that undergirds modernist assumptions. Jersak's thesis is confirmed and would be strengthened by careful attention Eric Voegelin's assessment of Gnosticism in The New Science of Politics . What needs further attention on the way of just peacemaking is the important turn from the vita activa to a sustained vita contemplativa as a way of knowing and being (cf. Merton). Finally, using Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game (1946) reminds us of the inevitable clash between idealists and realists, raising the question of how, in the end, the owl of contemplative wisdom might navigate conflict between doves and hawks.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it