Re: Trumpism
Posted: Sat May 27, 2017 1:36 am
Could you give an example of concerted effort of the "anti-SJW" trying to shut down whole media outlets or educational institutions? It's new to me although for sure some individuals here and there would have suggested it. The impressions I have so far would be more like a balance of SJW 95% and anti-SJW 5% when it comes to voice repression.David Quinn wrote:You don't think that the anti-SJW crusaders are doing the same thing? Of course they are. Not only are they trying to impose their values on everyone else, but they are quick to brand anyone who opposes them as “evil", “dishonest”, “dangerous”, “liars, etc. They are even trying to shut down their media outlets and educational institutions. They are every bit as tyrannical as the SJWs themselves.
The benefit of having a spark of passion fueling some interest to target this particular issue lies in the smaller scale where an individual genius thinker could be more effective. The big wheels of politics with all the unknowns and secrets, all the campaigns, all the institutionalized lying and manipulation on all sides is way more trickier as to find a well reasoned position to argue from and become a force of change or clarity. It would become very convoluted and long-winded.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.
Many left-wing advocates appear to me just as a continuation of that religious fundamentalism. Apart from that I don't see Solway teaming up with fundamental Christians and Muslims. The only reason there might be a similarity is a shared conservative or oppositional stance against certain negative processes. But to say Kevin "teams up" is as weird as to say you are "teaming up" with the Democratic party in some way just because you both oppose Trump so strongly.For thousands of years, religious fundamentalism has suppressed the truth far more pervasively and violently than left-wing advocates ever will. And yet Kevin Solway has somehow seen fit to team up with these very same fundamentalists in the belief that they are now on his side fighting for the cause of truth. Who is he trying to kid?
But you missed my point: by removing resistance there's good reason to believe wisdom cannot develop properly since it needs challenges to overcome, to get to a peak high enough to call genius. Not more "nurturing" and easy programs to enroll into. At best I see a trade-off here. More get a shot and more will be side-tracked or simply too weak of mind. The last men, I suppose?The more we can make society non-resistant to wisdom, the less we have to rely on chance to throw up favorable circumstances. We can take control of the situation. The net can be widened. Increasing numbers of people can have a genuine shot at becoming enlightened.
Agreed! But I'm not convinced that your own public "push back" against Kevin wouldn't be an example of someone whose sense of identity might be under attack. For me Trump is at best a showman, a type of conman whose erratic behavior and intuition will put a lot of pressure on the whole system which I see as void of any spirit at all. You see this as some mortal danger, while I see it as big opportunity. But this should have little to do with a sense of identity unless people see in Trump their own vapid theater play, their own clever pandering to the audience?They can’t fathom how life can be lived when reason and truth begins to overshadow everything else. They feel that their sense of identity is being obliterated. Hence the push back that we see all around us, from both the left and the right.