Amerika

When we were just little kids, we already had learned a taildragging strategy: delay the adults, force conditions upon the exercise, be obnoxious enough to force a bribe, and above all else, pretend not to notice the obvious.

These all fit together as a strategy:

• Delay: every small child learns early on that if you hold up the natural progression of events long enough, frequently adults will run out of time or give up, and then you do not have to do anything but what you want to do.
• Conditions: get what you want by imposing conditions that make everything else a lesser option, such as saying that yes, you will do your homework, but only if you can do it at a friend’s house. Suddenly letting you do it in front of the TV seems less bad.
• Obnoxious: this is another form of the Heckler’s Veto, but instead of depending on the ambient audience, it relies on annoying the adults on hand to the point where they disconnect and let the little anarchists run free.
• Oblivious: in our society, not understanding something is seen as natural and also, because of our anti-Darwinist egalitarian leaning, is not seen to reflect on the person involved as being dumb or inattentive. Thus most arguments involve one party refusing to understand what the other says, or saying “I just don’t see that” and hoping that this makes it all go away.

Obtusers use the above to muddle the issue, inverted it by redirecting it from goal to method, and then by making themselves a threat, force a compromise or conditions that render the original goal impossible and get an “in name only” compromise.

Almost every argument from the American Left starts with them refusing to see the obvious, and then, concluding that there are no answers, coming up with some insane conjecture based on ideas that failed three thousand years ago.

Every argument from science consists of them discarding relevant data because their model does not use it, then selecting data that conforms to their expectations, and magically it produces exactly what they said it would.

Teachers love to say that almost everything is not accepted as wisdom, then turn to all they have left, which conveniently, ironically, and coincidentally is the syllabus.

For centuries, humans have been fooled by obtusers because we assume they are equal and therefore that they have reason and want to find the right answer. Maybe we do that, but not everyone does, and in fact most of the world sees that approach as retarded.

Abusers like to pretend that the normal goal of life is arbitrary, therefore when you ask for something to be done, they can impose conditions to extract something from you. They reject cooperation and use conditions to wipe out any possibility but the action they desire.

Once you recognize that most people talk simply to deflect and manipulate, it becomes easier to see that when people have trouble understanding, it is simply the same distortion of your will that empathy and altruism also provide.

Tags: altruism, conditions, empathy, heckler's veto