My first start, my middle start and my end start are the same. I speak to facts whenever I find them. I don't let hypocrisy or lies stand, I don't let willful blindness stand, even if maybe I like the people determined to perpetrate their own little snow jobs.
It ain't so much courage or character or whatever we might call it. I just can'…
My first start, my middle start and my end start are the same. I speak to facts whenever I find them. I don't let hypocrisy or lies stand, I don't let willful blindness stand, even if maybe I like the people determined to perpetrate their own little snow jobs.
It ain't so much courage or character or whatever we might call it. I just can't not see what I see when I see it. I can't ignore the uncomfortable feeling, the instinct that something doesn't ring true, that something doesn't make sense.
It's a very hard journey, to stand up for your own instincts, your own common sense. People don't like when you use them. People don't like to be excluded from a club, to have the force of a majority viewpoint used against them.
You ever have the experience, you had a discussion with someone, and later they come back to you and say "I told Murgatroydette what you said and she said you were wrong!" They need the bolstering of a third person to prove that you, now in the minority, are wrong.
If we all try a little to give heart to a person struggling with letting their instincts break through frozen soil, that's a start.
Not only have I had the experience of them getting support from a third party, but they would drag them into a conversation they were losing. Throughout my life I was taught to try to fight my own battles. Or maybe I learned that there was no one better (or worse) than fighting my own battles but me.
It is sleazy. And yet...we heard Neil DeGrasse Tyson actually predicate his arguments about the pandemic on it. It's indulging in two logical fallacies, the bandwagon and appeal to authority. If this many expert doctors agree with the orthodoxy it can't be wrong.
I think for me it is just a general disappointment. I said this elsewhere, but before the pandemic officially began here, I spoke to a friend in China. There was a warning in his facebook post that "restrictions were coming." He talked about the lockdowns and the problems and I assured him I thought we would weather it like the bird flu/swine flu pandemics thinking there were still enough adults in the room to let cooler heads prevail.
My first start, my middle start and my end start are the same. I speak to facts whenever I find them. I don't let hypocrisy or lies stand, I don't let willful blindness stand, even if maybe I like the people determined to perpetrate their own little snow jobs.
It ain't so much courage or character or whatever we might call it. I just can't not see what I see when I see it. I can't ignore the uncomfortable feeling, the instinct that something doesn't ring true, that something doesn't make sense.
It's a very hard journey, to stand up for your own instincts, your own common sense. People don't like when you use them. People don't like to be excluded from a club, to have the force of a majority viewpoint used against them.
You ever have the experience, you had a discussion with someone, and later they come back to you and say "I told Murgatroydette what you said and she said you were wrong!" They need the bolstering of a third person to prove that you, now in the minority, are wrong.
If we all try a little to give heart to a person struggling with letting their instincts break through frozen soil, that's a start.
Not only have I had the experience of them getting support from a third party, but they would drag them into a conversation they were losing. Throughout my life I was taught to try to fight my own battles. Or maybe I learned that there was no one better (or worse) than fighting my own battles but me.
Yes, I always thought theirs was the sleazy way but sleaze is cheap in the market.
It is sleazy. And yet...we heard Neil DeGrasse Tyson actually predicate his arguments about the pandemic on it. It's indulging in two logical fallacies, the bandwagon and appeal to authority. If this many expert doctors agree with the orthodoxy it can't be wrong.
I don't have the numeracy skills to count up all the people I used to even moderately admire who've completely lost my regard during our Plague Era.
I think for me it is just a general disappointment. I said this elsewhere, but before the pandemic officially began here, I spoke to a friend in China. There was a warning in his facebook post that "restrictions were coming." He talked about the lockdowns and the problems and I assured him I thought we would weather it like the bird flu/swine flu pandemics thinking there were still enough adults in the room to let cooler heads prevail.