GENIUS FORUMS

As I say, I really think it is time that people started growing up and stopped participating in the partisan left vs right rubbish, which is leading to the polarization of Western society. Ben Shapiro has the right attitude, as displayed in this video about the recent Charlottesville incident: https...

In my view, the issue of freedom of speech is a first principle. Yet it does not seem to stop you from playing fast and loose with it. Where is your opposition to the widespread censorship and quashing of dissent taking place by groups other than the “authoritarian left”? We never hear a peep from ...

What evidence do you have have that I spend my days exacting revenge on women? It is there in the way you exclusively focus with hostility on the extreme left. The extreme left embodies everything that you hate about women - the political correctness, the anti-intellectualism, the inability to list...

David wrote to Santiago Odo: Look, I am going to say this once and then I will ignore you. Doesn't that sound a little authoritarian to you? It sounds like good judgment to me. That you equate masculinity with the white nationalist movement is a joke. I very much doubt that Santiago Odo equates mas...

To be perfectly honest with you, part of me, "John", while of course I know such feelings are based in delusion and ignorance, seemingly can't help but feel those same things about women. Why is this? And why have men seemingly always felt this way if you look at history, the bible, ancie...

One of the funniest remarks I heard came from a middle-aged male hairdresser of all people: "If women didn't have cunts we would have to throw rocks at them. " I believe he's referring to the fact that men are biologically designed to look after women. In other words, we look after women ...

Do you really think that women are treated as second-class citizens? That seems to be out of touch with the facts. From every statistic that I've seen and my own anecdotal evidence it seems that the average middle/lower class woman in western countries like America and Australia is far more privile...

To the authoritarian left it doesn't matter what the memo says, since, to them, it's all a matter of interpretation, and they can interpret literally anything to say what they want. The reason the authoritarian left are against freedom of speech is that fools like you and I lack the ability to inte...

And I do believe Genius type of philosophers, like yourself, have a role to play since they have the background, experience and the understanding to provide a healthier philosophical base than the "new right" can ever do with their race identities or hallowing of a fading set of tradition...

When I typed "philosopher" into Google images, there was no Kierkegaard, no Nietzsche, no Weininger, no Chuang Tzu, no Huang Po, no Hakuin. Plenty of scientists and useless academics, though. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya. There has to be some kind of evil cabal behind it all. Has to be. Ot...

I'm making this my last post in this thread, and on this topic. The whole anti-SJW fracas, in its current form, disgusts me. It is like watching a screaming fight between a couple going through a very messy divorce. Dan mentioned the extreme anger which drives these people and how off-putting it is....

You don't think that the anti-SJW crusaders are doing the same thing? Of course they are. No, they're not trying to do it by force , which the authoritarian left are trying to do. Some of your own comments: “I agree with Bannon in so far as the establishment needs to be completely dismantled - espe...

I just don't see a need to turn purple and blow a gasket over the issue. The expression of truth is suppressed in many different ways from many different quarters. Always has been. The SJWs are just one culprit among many. The benefit of having a spark of passion fueling some interest to target thi...

They give every indication that they don’t want left-wing academics, feminists and SJWs to express themselves. But wait a minute, most conservative critique I heard on the left-wing academics, feminists and SJWs was about their attempts to silence what was branded "insane" or "damagi...

They give every indication that they don’t want left-wing academics, feminists and SJWs to express themselves. I don't think Trump supporters would be offering tens of thousands of dollars to SJWs, just to have a discussion or debate with them, if they didn't want SJWs to express themselves. That s...

.... I value freedom of thought and freedom of expression. Quintessential progressive values, as David would admit. Which shows also his problem casting this as something progressive vs backwards. There's no indication that many supporters of Trump are not supporting these things wholeheartedly. Th...

The goal of encouraging everyone to become wise goes hand in hand with the goal of creating a society which best promotes this. You can’t have one without the other. The point is how similar wise goals are to progressivist goals. When rationality is considered to be a means to something else, like ...

I'm sure most academics would laugh at the very idea of someone like myself being aligned with their perceptions and modes of thinking. And yet you're almost calling them perfectly capable of rationally dealing and assessing all other important things in life, like you said here: The top scientists...

the progressive movement as a bridge between complete ignorance and wisdom It tells us something though about the way David and Dan could have connected their wisdom to the Idea of progress and perhaps related ideology of progressivism. This would be an entire topic by itself! But I'll introduce it...

You have here negatively judged a whole group of people simply on the basis of their association with academia. No, I'm not judging people based on their "association", but on their actions . It wouldn't matter to me if they called themselves academics or business people, if their actions...

jimhaz wrote:Left wingers gave you the dole you survive on.

They also created the computers and internet which he uses to rail against them.

Go read some history books and find out what real persecution and oppression looks like. And nearly all of it has been inflicted by conservative institutions. Okay.. lets starts with arguably the largest persecution and oppression in the 20th century, okay? 1. Communist Soviets. The pinnacle of rev...

Why are you so sensitive to criticism and continually flying off the handle at the merest hint of an insult? I'm not sensitive to criticism but to LOGICAL FALLACIES, and insult is but one of the logical fallacies (e.g. "I'm right because you are fucking insane."). Logical fallacies are th...

In my judgment, those who are curious about wisdom tend to be educated and tend to come from the liberal establishment. How is this extension of the definition of wisdom (i.e., "genius") to an entire political demographic *not* identical to what you've been accusing us of doing? Besides, ...

I want to make it clear that I don't care how anyone "perceives" me, no matter whether they are from the left or the right side of politics. Then why are you so sensitive to criticism and continually flying off the handle at the merest hint of an insult? You never used to be like this. Da...