Pedro I Rengel wrote:To make you think that figuring out the proper theoretical stance is more important than knowing what is actually going on in the world.
For propaganda nerds, the reasoning behind this is to make you doubt your ability to draw conclusions. How can you make a judgment on actual occurring things if you don't have a proper theoretical basis? Surely you don't think your own free thinking judgment will do? Surely?
Pedro I Rengel wrote:To make you think that figuring out the proper theoretical stance is more important than knowing what is actually going on in the world.
For propaganda nerds, the reasoning behind this is to make you doubt your ability to draw conclusions. How can you make a judgment on actual occurring things if you don't have a proper theoretical basis? Surely you don't think your own free thinking judgment will do? Surely?
Karpel Tunnel wrote:Serendipper,
I know you've been having interactions with him elsewhere, but at the level of abstraction in the OP, here, you would probably find yourself agreeing in many specific cases. I mean, look at Global Warming. Now you may say that you have theoretical bases to support your minority position, but you would be marginalized precisely in the way he is cataloguing in the OP.
I would have once dismissed the right's position on higher education and its effects in a similar way, but I have since seen how much truth there is in it. A set of specfic worldviews are created in much higher education. Good in many ways, but also loopy in others. I think its more complicated than your response would indicate.
Silhouette wrote:The personal incredulity fallacy is rife amongst the uneducated..
To make you think that figuring out the proper theoretical stance is more important than knowing what is actually going on in the world.
Pedro I Rengel wrote:That ther. That's the trick of the communists.
Where promethean went crazy and descended into Wittgenstein and deli sandwiches.
No my friend. The world precedes theory by a great many eons.
Pedro I Rengel wrote:In honor of Breitbart, here goes this:
The idea you have of universities, where they combine all the elitest knowledge available to the intellectuals of society and educate the leaders of society, is one that was sort of born, or at least consolidated, somewhere in the 50's. Then it was still true that University was just a mostly neutral house of arguably the most useful and most elevated societal arts.. But soon after the communists noted that they could easily, or at least without too much trouboe if they invested the necessary decades and propaganda effort, overtake such a non-militant institution and make it a center of power for a politics that has no institutions in the west beside it and the FARC or something. Since then, quality has heavily been sacrificed in favour of political training.
It's not so much that the Russians infiltrated, but that communism isn't a Russian invention, and the communist modus operandi is and always has been to infiltrate, overtake and revolutionaize, as well as to prioritize the attainment of power (fullfillment of revolution) over all other things. Like, I'm sure the Soviets where more than happy to help whenever they could, but that's a bit of a straw man ther.
Thank you Brietbart! You beautiful bastard of a genious! We miss you.
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