“My fellow Americans, we must never, ever believe that our diversity is a weakness — it is our greatest strength.”
William Jefferson Clinton, State of the Union 1997
Twelve years after this insidious slogan was uttered and accepted by our obliviot voting population, the contrary results continue to reveal themselves. Maybe it is more accurate to look [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cognitive dissonance’
Diversity our greatest liability
Renaissance humanism also fails us today
Once upon a time, populations weren’t diverse, at least not anywhere near to the forced extent they are today.
Some of these non-diverse populations started to think of ways to avoid conflict among themselves, which included thinking about ending fratricide.
One consequence of the development of humanist philosophy during the Renaissance was the increased emphasis on the [...]
Gaming: Just another barbituate
Modern society is full of addictive behaviors, but it also empowers the people who exhibit them, such that we end up listening to every reason but the most obvious one regarding the true source of the problem. We like to blame external factors or at least try to come up with external solutions to problems [...]
The hero is dead; Long live the hero
For those who value the false idea of “equality” in our society, incidents like this cause cognitive dissonance:
Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said Paul Langone, 33, of Reading, heard the screams of Dr. Astrid Desrosiers on the fifth floor of an MGH office building on Staniford Street. Langone entered the doctor’s office and [...]
Social networking sites can highlight social weaknesses
A while ago, I friended a family friend’s son on Facebook. Nice guy, always pretty quiet, but generally reasonable – at least, that’s how I had known him in the 90s, and I hadn’t really seen him much since.
After friending him and his sister, I realized both were Ron Paul supporters. Sure, this could work: [...]
The psychology of leftism
Every now and then you encounter a clear statement of political intent, and today’s comes from a video game site.
Their attempt is to describe “We power,” or People Power as we call it here, versus the establishment, which they identify as rightist and individualistic:
“There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and [...]
New Realism
I’d like to present to you today a statement of what I’d call “New Realism.”
For those of us who take Plato seriously, and are alert enough to see that we could live at any stage of his civilization cycle, it’s clear that we’re in the declining stage. Furthermore, we can see the evidence all [...]
Nature recycles patterns
Nature reuses patterns. If you see a mathematical distribution, pattern, type of organization or even something you could flowchart in one place, you’ll see it in another:
All the bacteria living inside you would fill a half-gallon jug; there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than human cells, according to Carolyn Bohach, a [...]
Witless crowd empowers its own devils
In a speech at the 1991 Bilderberg Convention, Rockefeller stated “we are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for [...]
Jihad!
The ancients of antiquity put in place foundations for long term, settled society. Unlike today’s abstract rationalism and holistic incoherence, ancient societies recognized a home and best fit for everything at each level of organization.
Degree of importance ascended to the highest levels approaching whole system in scope and beyond – that which they believed made [...]