Goodness, have I been following this for 20 years? Been a few changes in my life since you started this, Author, but I can always rely on J&M for a laugh and an insight. Please keep up the good work :-).
The Brexit and MAGA people were in no way reasoned into their predicament. Nor can they be reasoned out of it. It will take the force of a legitimate election to right things. That is why there are so many proposed changes to elections in the USA. They know their policies are unacceptable, so they fight them all the way to the voting places with oversight by the likes of their damn ICE thugs.
MAGA partakes of that problem to an extent, but there’s another layer.
They’re full of reasons, at least there’s a army of believers who are climbing over each other to present their reasoning. But it’s based on lies. There’s a statistically strong correlation here with religion – specifically, white Christians – and I suppose it’s unsurprising that implausible faith in one thing would correlate with implausible faith in another, but there’s also an information environment that has been engineered to bathe their unreliable intellects in these lies.
For example, they’re all convinced that their country is being ravaged by criminal elements from south of the border, who have been welcomed into the country by “the left” who plan to replace honest fellow countrymen with pliant 3rd world peasants. America isn’t the only country where you see this, but there may be a exceptionally strong respect in America for “common sense”, i.e., “me and my friends obviously can sort these matters out just like anyone – we don’t need any experience or reference to credentialed sources.” They’re avid reasoners, they just haven’t been reasoning about their sources, and now they’re really committed – just like the religious have kind of invested themselves in their belief and can’t easily back out.
In the UK a handfull of unelected Religious spunk-monkeys have jerrymandered the assisted dying bill which has been effectively scuppered and will not make statute anytime soon. I hate religious fuckwits who think they can interfere with other peoples lives. I wish we could send them all off into space like the golgafrinchams…
scuppered or scuttled, it doesn’t much matter.
with alternate facts you can be the mad hatter,
smattering, battering, breaking foundations,
I hope, unlike me, not with family relations.
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Goodness, have I been following this for 20 years? Been a few changes in my life since you started this, Author, but I can always rely on J&M for a laugh and an insight. Please keep up the good work :-).
Yes, Haggis, it’s beginning to feel more like 2000 years.
“You cannot reason someone out of a belief that they did not reason themselves into.”
The Brexit and MAGA people were in no way reasoned into their predicament. Nor can they be reasoned out of it. It will take the force of a legitimate election to right things. That is why there are so many proposed changes to elections in the USA. They know their policies are unacceptable, so they fight them all the way to the voting places with oversight by the likes of their damn ICE thugs.
MAGA partakes of that problem to an extent, but there’s another layer.
They’re full of reasons, at least there’s a army of believers who are climbing over each other to present their reasoning. But it’s based on lies. There’s a statistically strong correlation here with religion – specifically, white Christians – and I suppose it’s unsurprising that implausible faith in one thing would correlate with implausible faith in another, but there’s also an information environment that has been engineered to bathe their unreliable intellects in these lies.
For example, they’re all convinced that their country is being ravaged by criminal elements from south of the border, who have been welcomed into the country by “the left” who plan to replace honest fellow countrymen with pliant 3rd world peasants. America isn’t the only country where you see this, but there may be a exceptionally strong respect in America for “common sense”, i.e., “me and my friends obviously can sort these matters out just like anyone – we don’t need any experience or reference to credentialed sources.” They’re avid reasoners, they just haven’t been reasoning about their sources, and now they’re really committed – just like the religious have kind of invested themselves in their belief and can’t easily back out.
In the UK a handfull of unelected Religious spunk-monkeys have jerrymandered the assisted dying bill which has been effectively scuppered and will not make statute anytime soon. I hate religious fuckwits who think they can interfere with other peoples lives. I wish we could send them all off into space like the golgafrinchams…
I studied confirmation bias, and I found it was exactly what I had expected.
scuppered or scuttled, it doesn’t much matter.
with alternate facts you can be the mad hatter,
smattering, battering, breaking foundations,
I hope, unlike me, not with family relations.