The powerful by definition control us. Otherwise they wouldn't be powerful. I don't see your point. To me the notion of trying to be neutral seem to give the powerful less power than being "political".
I.e. it is better if the puppets think they are living in a fair democracy, since they might act like they do, decreasing the power of the puppet masters. The opposite is concepts like the series "House of cards", that instruct people to play the game and be "political".
I define "neutral" as loosely "trying to not be biased".
Like, for example, pretending until it became way over the top too embarrassing that the president is mentally fit for another 4 year of any work, is a good example of being "political" about it.
I am biased against creationism being treated as science. And that is correct, because one side is true and the other is false and should not be taught or treated equally.
So I think either your definition is wrong or your goal of neutrality is wrong.
I don't see how that is biased in anything but a really litteral way.
I don't think that is your point, but treating creationism as a science would rather quickly disprove it? Like Dowsing rods or whatever.
If God descended from heaven (lets just pretend he did, not a powerful alien or whatever) and showed you how he creationisted everything, then it would be 'biased' to pretend it didn't happen. But I guess you could still believe it is fake, as long as the facts are considered in some way, without being biased.
Well, on the details, technically creationism is non-falsifiable, because God in his infinite wisdom could have just done whatever (1). It's impossible to disprove it- that's why its not part of science.
But the issue of whether science class was "biased" against creationism- and whether it should neutrally teach both sides in public schools, museums, etc.- was a huge political argument in the US for decades, resulting in many legal battles- with Justice Scalia and Chief Justice Rehnquist voting that it should be taught in public school science class (Edwards v. Aguillard, 1987, decided 7-2 against creationism). Given the current makeup of the Court - where Scalia's positions have far more clout than they did then- I hesitate to see where a new case would end up.
To just wave that away because you want the world to be different is avoiding how the world actually works. It would be nice if organizations could be "neutral" on things you disagree with them about and biased on things you agree with them about, but unfortunately people disagree with you, and they get a vote too.
Far more important to spreading the truth to let organizations have bias, and then build good institutions that achieve positions closer to the truth, and those institutions get respected for being closer to the truth, and lose respect for being further from the truth.
1: The Omphalos Argument, the God of Abraham could have made the entire universe 6000 years ago with an appearance of age, with light from distant galaxies already in flight towards the Earth, with radioactive isotope ratios consistent with a 13.7 billion year old universe and a 4.54 billion year old Earth, for His own purposes.
Omphalos is Greek for navel, and the name comes from a medieval argument over whether Adam and Eve had bellybuttons: they would not have had one naturally, obviously, due to their special creation, but then they would not be like all other humans, and they are supposed to be. But if they did have them was God lying about their past? This is why most artists of the time carefully placed some cover where the bellybutton would be, to stay neutral in this argument.
Please keep in mind that "creationism as part of science education" (as you argued about elsewhere in the thread) and "creationism being treated as science" do not mean the same thing.
Then you need to finish high school, because if you define neutral as "trying not to be not-neutral" then you are using a circular definition and so you really need to work on your basic skills which are usually taught by high school.
I.e. it is better if the puppets think they are living in a fair democracy, since they might act like they do, decreasing the power of the puppet masters. The opposite is concepts like the series "House of cards", that instruct people to play the game and be "political".
I define "neutral" as loosely "trying to not be biased".
Like, for example, pretending until it became way over the top too embarrassing that the president is mentally fit for another 4 year of any work, is a good example of being "political" about it.
Gaslighting that backfired badly.