It is no coincidence that the institutions under attack are precisely those that seek to discover truth through evidence and reason: science, journalism, education, jurisprudence. The attacks come from all parts of the political spectrum; what they all share is a devotion to passionate belief rather than reasoned inquiry. Pay attention t…
It is no coincidence that the institutions under attack are precisely those that seek to discover truth through evidence and reason: science, journalism, education, jurisprudence. The attacks come from all parts of the political spectrum; what they all share is a devotion to passionate belief rather than reasoned inquiry. Pay attention to how often people preface their opinions with “I feel that . . . ” rather than “I think that . . . ” or “I have concluded that . . . .” If we each have our own “truth,” then there is no truth at all.
"The attacks come from all parts of the political spectrum; what they all share is a devotion to passionate belief rather than reasoned inquiry."
Hear, hear! As the great Thomas Sowell put it, "The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling"
It isn’t a coincidence because there has been a concentrated effort by a minority of anti capitalist, critical theory supporters to rebuild America by taking control of education. Control of educational institutions, coupled with suppression of dissenting voices, eventually amounts to control of the nation. Young people are particularly susceptible to the idea that being “nice” is more important than anything, including having rights and freedoms. Dividing the world into victims and victors, while pointing to the established American values as those instituted by the oppressor class, is how you raise a generation of loyalists, starting from elementary schools and ending in higher education. This generation of college educated people then naturally spreads the victim/victor theories and intolerance of dissent into social, political, and economic institutions like the media, jurisprudence, business, government.
Bush the Lesser was always careful to say "I believe." Not only is that an out, it's not challengeable. Belief is held sacrosanct, possibly because of religion.
If you saw Matt Walsh's film What is a Woman then you saw a tenured professor of "queer studies" named Patrick Grzanka pronounce that the search for truth is "transphobic." He actually said this.
As the tsunami of foolishness that is postmodernism continues to roar into our lives the idea of objective reality has lost ground to "lived experience," the supremacy of individual perception. That truth is relative would have been until very recently an absurdity but it has become mainstream.
There is only one interviewee in that movie I didn't want to strangle, the psychiatrist who tells it like it is. Who acknowledged the role of social contagion in "trans."
The Smile woman ("does a chicken have a gender identity?") who said that puberty blockers were no more harmful than pausing playback on a CD (smile) actually gets to prescribe the shit. And that professor who has the temerity to call himself a scientist actually said that seeking the truth is "transphobic," and he didn't qualify that at all.
Walsh came out of the experience of making the movie as a frothing rabid bigot, saying some shockingly violent things. If I had flown all over the country just to get lied to and lied to and lied to, I doubt I would have done much better.
“ Walsh came out of the experience of making the movie as a frothing rabid bigot.”
Nah, Walsh went into the movie that way. He was just smart enough to keep his mouth mostly shut as he spoke to these people so the spotlight remained on their awful takes instead of his.
Aside from his appearance on Carlson, he kept his biases scrupulously masked.
It seems like everyone who saw that film is disgusted with his interviewees. The professor was the worst ("truth is transphobic; I'm a scientist") but that woman who evaded answering questions just as badly lied even more. Puberty blockers are completely reversible (smile). Does a chicken have a gender identity (smile)? And she prescribes this muck.
But by keeping his biases concealed, Walsh made a major contribution to the discussion. But it's sobering to note that a frothing right-wing bigot is the voice of reason here.
It is no coincidence that the institutions under attack are precisely those that seek to discover truth through evidence and reason: science, journalism, education, jurisprudence. The attacks come from all parts of the political spectrum; what they all share is a devotion to passionate belief rather than reasoned inquiry. Pay attention to how often people preface their opinions with “I feel that . . . ” rather than “I think that . . . ” or “I have concluded that . . . .” If we each have our own “truth,” then there is no truth at all.
"The attacks come from all parts of the political spectrum; what they all share is a devotion to passionate belief rather than reasoned inquiry."
Hear, hear! As the great Thomas Sowell put it, "The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling"
It isn’t a coincidence because there has been a concentrated effort by a minority of anti capitalist, critical theory supporters to rebuild America by taking control of education. Control of educational institutions, coupled with suppression of dissenting voices, eventually amounts to control of the nation. Young people are particularly susceptible to the idea that being “nice” is more important than anything, including having rights and freedoms. Dividing the world into victims and victors, while pointing to the established American values as those instituted by the oppressor class, is how you raise a generation of loyalists, starting from elementary schools and ending in higher education. This generation of college educated people then naturally spreads the victim/victor theories and intolerance of dissent into social, political, and economic institutions like the media, jurisprudence, business, government.
“Young people are particularly susceptible to the idea that being “nice” is more important than anything, including having rights and freedoms.”
Excellent point. Very true. In addition to their minds just being more malleable in general.
Bush the Lesser was always careful to say "I believe." Not only is that an out, it's not challengeable. Belief is held sacrosanct, possibly because of religion.
If you saw Matt Walsh's film What is a Woman then you saw a tenured professor of "queer studies" named Patrick Grzanka pronounce that the search for truth is "transphobic." He actually said this.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&ei=UTF-8&p=what+is+a+woman+documentary&type=E211US714G0#action=view&id=37&vid=86382265a51839cc1036ce877940954c
Start at 5:45
As the tsunami of foolishness that is postmodernism continues to roar into our lives the idea of objective reality has lost ground to "lived experience," the supremacy of individual perception. That truth is relative would have been until very recently an absurdity but it has become mainstream.
"Start at 5:45"
His students should get a refund with additional punitive money.
He should get a mob beating.
There is only one interviewee in that movie I didn't want to strangle, the psychiatrist who tells it like it is. Who acknowledged the role of social contagion in "trans."
The Smile woman ("does a chicken have a gender identity?") who said that puberty blockers were no more harmful than pausing playback on a CD (smile) actually gets to prescribe the shit. And that professor who has the temerity to call himself a scientist actually said that seeking the truth is "transphobic," and he didn't qualify that at all.
Walsh came out of the experience of making the movie as a frothing rabid bigot, saying some shockingly violent things. If I had flown all over the country just to get lied to and lied to and lied to, I doubt I would have done much better.
“ Walsh came out of the experience of making the movie as a frothing rabid bigot.”
Nah, Walsh went into the movie that way. He was just smart enough to keep his mouth mostly shut as he spoke to these people so the spotlight remained on their awful takes instead of his.
Aside from his appearance on Carlson, he kept his biases scrupulously masked.
It seems like everyone who saw that film is disgusted with his interviewees. The professor was the worst ("truth is transphobic; I'm a scientist") but that woman who evaded answering questions just as badly lied even more. Puberty blockers are completely reversible (smile). Does a chicken have a gender identity (smile)? And she prescribes this muck.
But by keeping his biases concealed, Walsh made a major contribution to the discussion. But it's sobering to note that a frothing right-wing bigot is the voice of reason here.
“[I]t's sobering to note that a frothing right-wing bigot is the voice of reason here.”
[Ahem] I beg your pardon?