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Another brilliant analysis of what's going on in Amerika, by a dude who's lived in Moscow for last 25 years. NOT.Ad hominem.
"If you follow the time-line of enlightened thinking that has served us so well towards medical and technological advancement..." LOL, the unhealthiest population on the planet, the most wasteful, disposable techno culture setting the planetary trend toward omnicide, sure, dude.Strawman.
"race, religion and class do not have any REAL existence." The river in Egypt is indeed deep.Ridicule
"we are naturally predisposed towards placing events, objects and people into neat manageable boxes" - ah yes, and who is this "WE"?Play dumb. (Or incredulous/indignant)
But keep idolizing Jordan, the spiritual/intellectual fraud...off the cliff we go!Name calling/ridicule. Also somewhat 'straw man' as Peterson doesn't even appear to be mentioned.
Shalmaneser And the responses are so childish, I can't even... Enjoy your fantasy bubble. Whatfukinever. (Guess you didn't notice your god/idol JP's book in the photo?) Thanks for the confirmation of cult-think.Project much?
Here's a good example...There's no such thing as a "SOTT Forum". The forum you linked to is separate from this website. Also, if you don't like the musical choices of other people, that makes you no different than pretty much everyone else. But you are twisting that dislike into some example of "PC-think" to somehow make a point that doesn't exist. Have you ever considered that people actually like that music? I guess you couldn't possibly believe that.
SOTT Forum members who wish to appear 'as saints', show how to turn a 'What Are You Listening To?' thread into a total virtue-signalling barf-out....[Link]
" My guess is that the Libertarian brain is one in which the upper dorsal cortical areas are more highly functioning than in the non-Libertarian person. This would be associated with the higher than normal rational and cold cognitive approach to problems characteristic of Libertarians. The Libertarian brain might also have lower than average insular cortical activity commensurate with the somewhat reduced level of interpersonal empathy seen in many Libertarians. That is, Libertarians rely more on a sense of fairness and justice, than on how they feel emotionally about a person, or group of people. Jonathan Haidt of New York University has studied Libertarians and reported with colleagues in 2012 that they indeed are more rational, less emotional, and less empathetic than Democrats and Republicans.Some of the points made may be upside down, but the main theme is important. Cognitive empathy, a theory of mind, isn't true empathy. Individuals after all, are the fundamentals in groups, in humanity.
Libertarians, like agnostics and atheists, tend to have a low crime rate, so the neural machinery most associated with a sense of ethics, the orbital and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, would be expected to be normal, to above average, while their animal drive system involving the amygdala and limbic cortex might be lower than for the non-Libertarian. These circuit factors would be associated with a person with high self control and low animal drives.
In personal reflection, this pattern fits with my own behaviours in my late teens and early twenties, when i first chose Libertarianism and agnosticism/atheism as political and religious mindsets. As a Libertarian i would prefer many situations where some people die. I don't feel responsible for individuals dying as part of a broader cause and don't think we should spend every dime we have to save one child. Such coddling will end up destroying the human race. And who adjudicates who gets coddled? I look at the distant horizon, how things will play out in a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand years. If one person croaks tomorrow for the sake of society, its too bad, but i don't care. I wouldn't let a kid starve right in front of me--i'm not a monster--but if i ran the government, i would cut out all welfare.
I haven't heard a lot of Libertarians admit to these views, but if pressed, i'm sure many would agree. For me, by sticking to the basic principles of the constitution--fairness, private property, and so on--i know some people will die, but it doesn't bother me. If the system weeds out weak or lazy individuals, fine. I don't want to encourage unproductive, or irresponsible behaviour, because i think it will kill society. I'm more sympathetic to the species than i am to that one person, or the group.
There are others who have cared more about larger causes than the people next to them. Many great humanitarians were, on a personal level, apparently not so nice to be around, and seemed to have little interpersonal empathy while simultaneously displaying a great depth of empathy for the poor and downtrodden. Mohandas Gandhi, one of my few heros, may have been a pill to be around, and even his wife, Kasturba Gandhi, talked about his cruelty to her and their children. ( See The Forgotten Woman by Arun and Sunanda Gandhi.) Another heroic figure of the twentieth century, the consensus saint Mother Teresa, was reported to be cold to the people close to her, including the children she helped. Donal MacIntyre, writing in New Statesmen in 2005 ("The Squalid Truth Behind the Legacy of Mother Teresa"), and Christopher Hitchens, discussing in his 1995 book The Missionary Position, both point to the seemingly substandard and even cruel treatment of the children she saved. While these claims are controversial, they do illuminate a type of global empathy toward humanity. An empathy that saves thousands, but perhaps is impersonal to the point of disregard, and even cruelty to the individual humans being otherwise saved by a great humanitarian.
Yes, I have considered it, and no I don't believe for a minute that the majority of them do, at least any further than as saintly looking raiments they can parade before all the other idiots showing off their saintly looking raiments.Why is it not possible for them to like that music?
I have also noticed, it's never some cheesy RNB track, or a wild old school techno tune, or Petula Clark B-side or whatever, it's always some saintly internet-friendly eye-candy with a worthy-sounding title estimated to look impressive to the other members of the forum. Whether they are actually listening to it or not is totally irrelevant.Ok, let me list some bands that I came across from just randomly clicking on pages of that thread: Thievery Corporation (Electro music, gasp!), Radiohead, Supertramp, Judas Priest, Muse, Kylie Minogue, KRS-One (rap, OMG!!), Janelle Monae (cheesy R&B), Depeche Mode, Jimmy Cliff, Tom Waits, Lupe Fiasco and Beck.
Jeezus, even Jordan Peterson admits he likes Alice Cooper.
If-I-present-myself-as-a-saint-then-I-will-become-a-saint-according-to-present-or-future-mores is ass-backwards thinking that always ends in the same result, as per triad 3-1-2: Form, applied to life, results in matter.
"If you follow the time-line of enlightened thinking that has served us so well towards medical and technological advancement..." LOL, the unhealthiest population on the planet, the most wasteful, disposable techno culture setting the planetary trend toward omnicide, sure, dude.
"race, religion and class do not have any REAL existence." The river in Egypt is indeed deep.
"we are naturally predisposed towards placing events, objects and people into neat manageable boxes" - ah yes, and who is this "WE"?
But keep idolizing Jordan, the spiritual/intellectual fraud...off the cliff we go!