Another great quote from Thomas Sowell
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My issue with activism is that I know human nature.
So here we have a group of people. Activism gives them influence, power, money, fame, things most people generally either want or can very easily learn to enjoy. Do you think that when they have all that... they want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs by solving the issues and coming to accept stuff? HAH.
Exactly. And while the US and the rest of the West aren’t perfect they look like idiots making the case that America, England, Canada, etc are such horrific places. Combine that with the overuse of the word “oppression”
Exactly.
It's a Perpetual Motion Machine, but instead of creating energy out of thin air, it creates social status for people who have not earned it.
And even if you want to discount the Greed angle, there's still the Laziness one: why put in the effort of fixing things when you can just whine about it instead?
Scott Adams succinctly expressed this principle in 2000.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2000-08-27
Lazy people complain as if the very existence of their discomfort creates a moral obligation on the part of observers to alleviate the alleged distress.
The point isn't to address the supposed problem, the point is to use social pressure to extract resources from "others" and transfer them to the complainer.
I only recently started listening to Scott Adams. Have been reading Dilbert for years but never listened to the creator.
His books are really good
I wonder if Scott Adams ever gets tired of being right all the time?
It's like they've taken "I don't want solutions, I just want to complain!" and created an entire service industry around it. It's almost kind of impressive in some macabre way.
It works that way from the "research" side, too: we have "Women's Studies" and "African and African American Studies", and no voice counter to them in academia, and do you think the "research" will ever say the issues don't exist? The conclusion is baked right into the fields, they will never, ever, ever say that discrimination doesn't exist, and anyone who disagrees would never go into that field in the first place. So we have a field composed strictly of people who believe they're oppressed so strongly they decide to devote their careers to it, who are dependent on convincing others they're being oppressed to maintain relevance and funding, and whose conclusion to every bit of research they might do is already set by the core beliefs of their entire field, and there is no field that exists to give a counterpoint.
When business is slow, the exterminator breeds roaches.
I agree with this totally, but I'll add something to it.
Some of the people who are funding that activism are fully aware of it's consequences and stand to benefit from it.
Great point
Thomas Sowell: All quotes, no action. Hell, our World War 2 veterans here in the Philippines have more balls than him that they'll fight again if the time has come that our country was invaded again. But Sowell? Nah, all words, no actions.
Out of curiosity, what would you like him to do? I know I couldn’t make any meaningful change in my life till I stopped blaming others for my failures. People have helped but ultimately I had to change.
Having Thomas Sowell say the things he says has helped me a lot in this clown world. Maybe he has not done some great change but his words help a lot of people.
But he has done a lot, especially in his analysis that he wrote in his books. For instance did you know that back in the day the left wanted background checks gone since it negatively impacted "youfs"? What do you think the end result of that was? People just assumed every black was a criminal and it hurt the blacks even more. That's a specific thing Thomas Sowell wrote about.
There are a lot more examples out there and it's actually funny to see the democrats complain about things that they implemented a decade or two earlier and calling it "systemic racism".
He's literally pointed out that he's an author & and academic. This is his entire life & career. Not everybody is an activist or a soldier.
Chris Tufo is an academic and leading the way into the destruction of Critical Race Theory in the USA. Your point?
That you're being quite silly complaining about him not being a foot-soldier.
Nah, more like he's not as tough as he flaunts he is. Even Ben Franklin knew how he can contribute to the revolution and it's not just about saying words, he does a lot of legwork too: Intelligence gathering and spying. Go back to your seat.
The idea that you can take one look at that man in the photo and claim "THAT GUY THINKS HE'S TOUGH" is absolutely retarded.
Do you just look at dudes in vests and get angry or what?
Man, don't project your fetishes on me, PLEASE.
That's not even how fetishes work, what are you talking about?
We got a badass over here.