Example: "[Russel Brand] was The Chosen One! He was supposed to destroy the wealth inequality gap, not join them!!!" -Source
There's no engaging with simple-minded Rhesus Macaques that refuse to think beyond 'Democrats: for the people
Republicans: for the rich' (or whatever the Fox News reverse is).
Einstein and Hawking get credit for distilling the essence theoretical physics to a level where an interested layman can comprehend it, but they didn't bother debating relativity with flat-earthers. It's remarkable how long modern civilization has clung on giving political authority to the snobbish masses with the delusion of modern democracy. The only route to prosperity is by respecting this quadrant graph; by restricting people making irrational decisions for others.
Correct. Thank you for making this correct point rather than the low IQ "democracy is real but bad".
Can you explain why that is? Even on Reddit, we allowed intelligent discussion about the relative merits of different groups, e.g. IQ. What is not allowed is "women are whores" or "blacks are subhuman nigger apes", which is not illiberalism, it's just stupidity.
Nominal liberalism. The originators of liberalism would be horrified, but liberalism has a tendency to spiral out of control.
Why is that low IQ?
Sure, many people are helpless if earnest, or afraid to step out of line, but just as many gleefully adopt primitive personalities (i.e. what leads to the doublethink I quoted).
It's semantics, but I utterly refuse to call anyone that doesn't have a full belief in the first and second amendments liberals. I do use 'shitlib' because that's fewer syllables than 'regressive leftist'. It's alright if you object to enlightenment era liberalism and it's unforeseen consequences, but the casual Republican calling Democratic-progressives 'liberals' is committing a tactical mistake (in the tribal affiliation, culture-war sense).
Divide and conquer tactics that lead to the marginalization of groups like Golden Dawn is something I intend to write a high-effort essay on, but my summary is this: class-solidarity is axiomatically bullshit, if at least not evil like identity politics. My plain example; the working-class faring better after the black death culled Europe's peasant population. Another reason why compromising with socialists of any brand isn't worthwhile. There is no unity with those of the same SES with those that fall for DaC tactics, such as the genuinely woke, for they are liabilities towards peaceful, productive coexistence.
It's not even that complicated. Sowell has extensively written about this.
Even if those making decisions for others had the best of intentions, which they do not, since they do not pay the price for being wrong - they can continue making 'mistakes' (which from their POV really are not mistakes) without consequence. When you do pay a price for being wrong, you eventually are forced to stop. When others pay the price, you never do.
Since coof shit started the left has reminded me of the dwarves at the end of The Last Battle.
Yeah, that book was prescient. More generically, the dwarves would also be a good metaphor for people who had been demoralized by communist propaganda. (though that's the same thing, I suppose)
Hold up a fake god for people to worship, and then become terrified when the real god you were impersonating shows up? Good job, progressives. Hope you enjoy the fake 'white supremacy' demon that you've been worshipping for decades when it manifests itself.
I wanted to read through The Last Battle again but couldn't do it in good conscience without reading the rest of the series first. About half-way through The Silver Chair now. There's a lot of wisdom in there that I completely missed as a kid when I was reading a story about talking animals and a magic lion.
Einstein distilled physics?
I based that off a debatable quote, but he at least was known as a pop-culture icon while he was breathing. Hawking is the better example, having published books intended to be consumed by those without physics degrees.
Fair enough. I've never read what Einstein wrote directly. Other people have summarized his theories for laymen.