I don't totally agree with that. "Knowledge And Decisions" really had an impact on my thinking.
There's a problem with the middle-class. They seem to just accept all """authoritative""" information as gospel, even when it is contradictory.
It comes from a pattern of behavior among the mid-wits that seems to twist contradiction as sophistication. I'll try to explain:
When you first learn something, it can be really confusing at first... but once you understand it, you feel like you understand the deeper meaning of what's going on. In physics, I've seen a ton of this. That's because in physics, you're using more advanced mathematics and whole different ways of thinking about problems all the time than most people are used to. Problems are often very difficult to wrap your head around until you understand the deeper mechanics of what's going on. There's a "Eureka!" moment that lots of people have when trying to solve more and more difficult problems. To be clear, this is a kind of emotional high that you'll have when you discover something.
There are all sorts of little moments like this, like: learning that you can rotate axis to simplify problems, learning how to break problems into component parts, learning how integral & differential calculus is how formulas are invented from their basic mathematical assumptions, understanding that portions of mathematics (like the natural exponent) are discovered rather than invented. All sorts of little things.
However, Leftist psuedo-science doesn't have any of this... so they invent it.
The acceptance of a contradictory statement becomes the Eureka moment for the midwits. They mistake being bamboozled for confusion, and acceptance for learning. The authority figure just signals to them that it's safe to accept the conclusion.
Like this:
SJW: "She has a penis."
Lowwit: "Ha! Good one. Boys have dics, not girls."
Midwit: "Ha ha ha! That's ridiculous".
Highwit: "You've use a contradiction in terms. I'm not taking you seriously."
SJW: Authority: "Actually..."
Lowwit: "???"
Midwit: "???"
Highwit: "Oh god."
SJW: Authority: "... when you define women correctly, of course they can have penii."
Midwit: "Ahhhh... I see."
Highwit: "What? No! You can't just re-define the terms of a premise in an argument!"
Lowwit: "You say that because you like dick, and hide your gay."
SJW: Authority: "Don't listen to them midwit! You're smarter than even highwit now! You are very smart."
Midwit: "Yes! I am very smart."
Highwit: "You're both fucking stupid."
Lowwit: "Midwit tried this on me last week."
Where I think this all comes from is that the 'midwit' grouping is having their life experiences be dictated and controlled by authority figures. They are acting as slaves to an authority which is conditioning them, and giving them experiences through indoctrination, which is contradicting their normal life. The more they ingest corporate media, authority, and propaganda; the more the propaganda defines their lives, rather than their own experiences.
The Lowwits and Highwits are experiencing a different series of events because they are both not ingesting corporatist doctrine. The highwits because they recognize it, and the lowwits because corporatism doesn't benefit them. The lowwits basically live and learn from their experiences for better or worse. If they live in worse conditions, they learn worse lessons. Corporate conditions don't exist for them, and if they do, it's in an adversarial nature. The highwits are capable of recognizing the deception of corporatism, and reject it voluntarily.
What I'm saying is that the normies and midwits need to be stripped of their corporate protectionism, so that they can actually have experiences without the filter of corporate indoctrination and dogma which is supplanting their normal responses to stimuli, and giving them a completely twisted sense of knowledge.
Or, in a more lowwit manner: The boys have to learn.
This is the most intelligent thing I've read in awhile. Really great breakdown you got there. Whether you're a lowwit or a highwit we all know the midwits, often thinking they're smarter than they are, because as you pointed out, that's what they've been told by authority and that's where they derive their truth. I remember getting ganged up on by a group of midwits who thought it was soo novel that they could call me out for being a white male. As if they had just discovered enlightenment, and now they where the elites. It was kinda weird, but the way you broke it down, now the whole exchange makes sense.
Yeah, I used to do it a bit myself from time to time. You have to catch yourself.
I've also been on the entirely opposite end of it.
I was derided for pointing out that American culture exists, but we don't typically experience it as such because most people haven't gone without it.
The exchange went fairly simply. It was a discussion in my ASL class in college about culture, and recognizing culture. Someone mentioned that clearly deaf people had a culture (once it was explained to us about how deaf people genuinely do behave differently among other deaf people and communicate with them in ways that they don't with hearing people, which is reasonable). I mentioned the concept that, to a degree: all social groups have a culture of some kind, even businesses. I pointed out that American culture tends to be very distinct, but most people didn't notice that because they've never really lived outside of American society or culture for very long. I mentioned in my experience that I was quite glad to re-experience American culture when you aren't living in it.
This is such an obviously true statement, you wouldn't think I'd even need to defend it.
However, I did have to defend it because one classmate, with the support of a few others, explicitly claimed that American culture didn't exist, and wasn't a positive even if it did, because only other places had cultures that were unique. Everybody here lived in a similar way, and therefore it didn't have a culture, and my opinion wasn't educated.
Another student spoke up and agreed with me because she had lived abroad, and pointed out that... yes... American culture exists. She, too, valued our unique approach to personal liberty and individual rights.
She was also dismissed, and gawfed at. My critics were quickly turning into mean-girls.
I was going to give an elaborate explanation about how social groups of any kind had to have their own cultures and social morays. But before I could even finish my first sentence, a little clique of 3 of them literally started laughing and snickering classic mean-girls style.
After a very tense pause, I threw my hands up and said "Fuck it, I'm done". After realizing that very bad things would happen to my chances of graduation had I done or said any of the things that were rolling through my head.
The Midwits are informed by "official sources" that their opinions are correct and conform to the correct narrative. After that, they use their sense of smug self-entitlement to deride others and affirm themselves in their moral superiority. That's why I've always felt that it was important to confront Leftists directly on their moral high-ground. It's actually never as well defended as they think because they've never properly interrogated their own beliefs.
The only way the COVID restrictions end is when you make them end. Nothing else.
The normies completely fell hook line and sinker for the false narrative based on emotion that the globalists created.
If they didn't wake up in the last fucking ten months, I don't expect them to ever stand up against this.
I don't totally agree with that. "Knowledge And Decisions" really had an impact on my thinking.
There's a problem with the middle-class. They seem to just accept all """authoritative""" information as gospel, even when it is contradictory.
It comes from a pattern of behavior among the mid-wits that seems to twist contradiction as sophistication. I'll try to explain:
When you first learn something, it can be really confusing at first... but once you understand it, you feel like you understand the deeper meaning of what's going on. In physics, I've seen a ton of this. That's because in physics, you're using more advanced mathematics and whole different ways of thinking about problems all the time than most people are used to. Problems are often very difficult to wrap your head around until you understand the deeper mechanics of what's going on. There's a "Eureka!" moment that lots of people have when trying to solve more and more difficult problems. To be clear, this is a kind of emotional high that you'll have when you discover something.
There are all sorts of little moments like this, like: learning that you can rotate axis to simplify problems, learning how to break problems into component parts, learning how integral & differential calculus is how formulas are invented from their basic mathematical assumptions, understanding that portions of mathematics (like the natural exponent) are discovered rather than invented. All sorts of little things.
However, Leftist psuedo-science doesn't have any of this... so they invent it.
The acceptance of a contradictory statement becomes the Eureka moment for the midwits. They mistake being bamboozled for confusion, and acceptance for learning. The authority figure just signals to them that it's safe to accept the conclusion.
Like this:
SJW: "She has a penis."
Lowwit: "Ha! Good one. Boys have dics, not girls."
Midwit: "Ha ha ha! That's ridiculous".
Highwit: "You've use a contradiction in terms. I'm not taking you seriously."
SJW:Authority: "Actually..."Lowwit: "???"
Midwit: "???"
Highwit: "Oh god."
SJW:Authority: "... when you define women correctly, of course they can have penii."Midwit: "Ahhhh... I see."
Highwit: "What? No! You can't just re-define the terms of a premise in an argument!"
Lowwit: "You say that because you like dick, and hide your gay."
SJW:Authority: "Don't listen to them midwit! You're smarter than even highwit now! You are very smart."Midwit: "Yes! I am very smart."
Highwit: "You're both fucking stupid."
Lowwit: "Midwit tried this on me last week."
Where I think this all comes from is that the 'midwit' grouping is having their life experiences be dictated and controlled by authority figures. They are acting as slaves to an authority which is conditioning them, and giving them experiences through indoctrination, which is contradicting their normal life. The more they ingest corporate media, authority, and propaganda; the more the propaganda defines their lives, rather than their own experiences.
The Lowwits and Highwits are experiencing a different series of events because they are both not ingesting corporatist doctrine. The highwits because they recognize it, and the lowwits because corporatism doesn't benefit them. The lowwits basically live and learn from their experiences for better or worse. If they live in worse conditions, they learn worse lessons. Corporate conditions don't exist for them, and if they do, it's in an adversarial nature. The highwits are capable of recognizing the deception of corporatism, and reject it voluntarily.
What I'm saying is that the normies and midwits need to be stripped of their corporate protectionism, so that they can actually have experiences without the filter of corporate indoctrination and dogma which is supplanting their normal responses to stimuli, and giving them a completely twisted sense of knowledge.
Or, in a more lowwit manner: The boys have to learn.
This is the most intelligent thing I've read in awhile. Really great breakdown you got there. Whether you're a lowwit or a highwit we all know the midwits, often thinking they're smarter than they are, because as you pointed out, that's what they've been told by authority and that's where they derive their truth. I remember getting ganged up on by a group of midwits who thought it was soo novel that they could call me out for being a white male. As if they had just discovered enlightenment, and now they where the elites. It was kinda weird, but the way you broke it down, now the whole exchange makes sense.
Yeah, I used to do it a bit myself from time to time. You have to catch yourself.
I've also been on the entirely opposite end of it.
I was derided for pointing out that American culture exists, but we don't typically experience it as such because most people haven't gone without it.
The exchange went fairly simply. It was a discussion in my ASL class in college about culture, and recognizing culture. Someone mentioned that clearly deaf people had a culture (once it was explained to us about how deaf people genuinely do behave differently among other deaf people and communicate with them in ways that they don't with hearing people, which is reasonable). I mentioned the concept that, to a degree: all social groups have a culture of some kind, even businesses. I pointed out that American culture tends to be very distinct, but most people didn't notice that because they've never really lived outside of American society or culture for very long. I mentioned in my experience that I was quite glad to re-experience American culture when you aren't living in it.
This is such an obviously true statement, you wouldn't think I'd even need to defend it.
However, I did have to defend it because one classmate, with the support of a few others, explicitly claimed that American culture didn't exist, and wasn't a positive even if it did, because only other places had cultures that were unique. Everybody here lived in a similar way, and therefore it didn't have a culture, and my opinion wasn't educated.
Another student spoke up and agreed with me because she had lived abroad, and pointed out that... yes... American culture exists. She, too, valued our unique approach to personal liberty and individual rights.
She was also dismissed, and gawfed at. My critics were quickly turning into mean-girls.
I was going to give an elaborate explanation about how social groups of any kind had to have their own cultures and social morays. But before I could even finish my first sentence, a little clique of 3 of them literally started laughing and snickering classic mean-girls style.
After a very tense pause, I threw my hands up and said "Fuck it, I'm done". After realizing that very bad things would happen to my chances of graduation had I done or said any of the things that were rolling through my head.
The Midwits are informed by "official sources" that their opinions are correct and conform to the correct narrative. After that, they use their sense of smug self-entitlement to deride others and affirm themselves in their moral superiority. That's why I've always felt that it was important to confront Leftists directly on their moral high-ground. It's actually never as well defended as they think because they've never properly interrogated their own beliefs.