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Witnessing the ignominious death of critical thinking (Original Post)
FakeNoose
Apr 2018
OP
"...impose SOCIALISM!" screamed the old white guy on Medicare & Social Security.
CrispyQ
Apr 2018
#6
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)1. K&R
Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)9. I figured you would appreciate this...
George Orwell wrote:
the nationalist is often somewhat uninterested in what happens in the real world. What he wants is to feel that his own unit is getting the better of some other unit, and he can more easily do this by scoring off an adversary than by examining the facts to see whether they support him.
A known fact may be so unbearable that it is pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in ones own mind.
something, some psychological vitamin, is lacking in modern civilisation, and as a result we are all more or less subject to this lunacy of believing that whole races or nations are mysteriously good or mysteriously evil. I defy any modern intellectual to look closely and honestly into his own mind without coming upon nationalistic loyalties and hatreds of one kind or another.
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)11. I do.
Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)2. K&R n/t
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)3. KnR!
Moostache
(9,895 posts)4. Wish I could K&R x 1,000,000
This is fantastic....utterly over the heads of the indoctrinated, but fantastic nevertheless!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. Occam's Razor!
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)6. "...impose SOCIALISM!" screamed the old white guy on Medicare & Social Security.
I have three in my family tree. Obama & the Clintons are in charge of the deep state that is going after Trump.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)7. k&r
kairos12
(12,859 posts)8. Critical thinking disappeared with Raygun's election.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)10. Sad but true