I recall being puzzled after the 2016 election at the Lefts insane declarations of certain friends/ family members, wondering what sources their hypereducated intellects were consulting to support their emotional pronouncements. Gradually I realized it wasn’t about their words, it was about that emotion.
They weren’t using their once-questing intellect to get to the truth, they were just consulting their newly-discovered elitist tribe (coached by legacy media) to see what cue card they should read. They were not exploring and processing knowledge, they were just mechanically reciting leftist sound loops, dressed up with Ivy League syntax.
You hear a lot of accusation and derision in those loops, but seldom do you hear words of cognitive engagement, words that reflect a genuine interest in discovery or the shared advancement of knowledge that until now drove human progress.
Full disclosure: I was a NYKR NYT - reading full-on Lefty prior to 2016. So don't no one tell me God isn't real. (see what I did there? haha) My cognitives must've been dissonating enough to shake my soul and open my eyes. Never give up praying for all to be given some small light of truth.
It's the gift of adversity that forces the search for practical solutions. No time for navel gazing and contemplating the deeper philosophical implications of ants going in a line, or why the wall cracks in exactly the same place each time in your house.
People who work hard with their hands or even their ingenuity for a living, need to find the straight line solution, not the bounce off the wall and compare notes in a chat room solution.
My horse is limping. Solution first check his horseshoes. Change horseshoes. Next. A Stanford philosopher would probably sit around wondering if the limp came from the tilt of the Earth, or the weather. I just change the damn shoes!
I believe prosperity has done great damage to many people. While I know prosperity is good, if people have it too easy, they get lazy. And if they get lazy, they're probably more interested in contemplating their navel than contributing actual value to society.
Gad Saad had a really good diagnosis as TDS settled in back then that it had everything to do with aesthetics-- that Trump was so aesthetically displeasing to, let's face it, in large part the more intellectually snobbish, that everything was tainted with this displeasure, and then add to that the fact of media propaganda and, 'voila!'
A decent amount of leftist hatred of Western society comes from snobbery. Which is ironic given the USSR spent a lot of money starting in the 1920s to make Western artists convince the idiot rich that ugly things were the true art. Sort of their own version of USAID, come to think of it.
Its so bizarre.
I recall being puzzled after the 2016 election at the Lefts insane declarations of certain friends/ family members, wondering what sources their hypereducated intellects were consulting to support their emotional pronouncements. Gradually I realized it wasn’t about their words, it was about that emotion.
They weren’t using their once-questing intellect to get to the truth, they were just consulting their newly-discovered elitist tribe (coached by legacy media) to see what cue card they should read. They were not exploring and processing knowledge, they were just mechanically reciting leftist sound loops, dressed up with Ivy League syntax.
You hear a lot of accusation and derision in those loops, but seldom do you hear words of cognitive engagement, words that reflect a genuine interest in discovery or the shared advancement of knowledge that until now drove human progress.
Full disclosure: I was a NYKR NYT - reading full-on Lefty prior to 2016. So don't no one tell me God isn't real. (see what I did there? haha) My cognitives must've been dissonating enough to shake my soul and open my eyes. Never give up praying for all to be given some small light of truth.
Funny how people with their names on their shirts often seem to understand things that others who have their name on parchment do not.
Having to make ends meet as a pleb is an education of its own.
Sadly parchment doesn't mean much anymore as the bar has lowered below the horizon.
It's the gift of adversity that forces the search for practical solutions. No time for navel gazing and contemplating the deeper philosophical implications of ants going in a line, or why the wall cracks in exactly the same place each time in your house.
People who work hard with their hands or even their ingenuity for a living, need to find the straight line solution, not the bounce off the wall and compare notes in a chat room solution.
My horse is limping. Solution first check his horseshoes. Change horseshoes. Next. A Stanford philosopher would probably sit around wondering if the limp came from the tilt of the Earth, or the weather. I just change the damn shoes!
I believe prosperity has done great damage to many people. While I know prosperity is good, if people have it too easy, they get lazy. And if they get lazy, they're probably more interested in contemplating their navel than contributing actual value to society.
It's the the old adage, "You cannot change with logic and facts an opinion that was created with emotion."
Gad Saad had a really good diagnosis as TDS settled in back then that it had everything to do with aesthetics-- that Trump was so aesthetically displeasing to, let's face it, in large part the more intellectually snobbish, that everything was tainted with this displeasure, and then add to that the fact of media propaganda and, 'voila!'
A decent amount of leftist hatred of Western society comes from snobbery. Which is ironic given the USSR spent a lot of money starting in the 1920s to make Western artists convince the idiot rich that ugly things were the true art. Sort of their own version of USAID, come to think of it.
Well said.