Will a nationalist/cosmopolitan divide be the political axis of the coming saeculum?

[pbrower2a]

(11-04-2016, 01:52 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(11-04-2016, 09:37 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(11-03-2016, 07:53 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(11-03-2016, 07:27 PM)Copperfield Wrote:

(11-03-2016, 07:18 PM)taramarie Wrote: Check out Warren's post above and you will see what our problem is. If you actually are here to learn about generations you are not doing a very good job of it.

Actually Snowflake, you and I are from different generations. So what would you like to know about mine?

That is what reading and listening is for.

Bingo.

The etymology of the word intelligence implies "reading between (the lines)", recognizing that anything written or said may be uttered with intent to deceive. Someone minimally learned can read and write, but being able to recognize propaganda in official statements or those of well-connected people takes some more learning. Tyrants like Lenin, Mao, and Satan Hussein may promote basic literacy to make people able to obey orders; a tyrant like Hitler prefers to debase education so that people cannot think for themselves.

For me I tend to be suspicious of anyone who is not an open book and when they beat round the bush with a clear honest answer I find myself "reading between the lines" even more so. The good thing (or bad for others) of being an ISFJ is that we do analyze what is said.

When people are or seem either dishonest or foolish, then if one can't fully brush off the apparent nonsense one must 'read between the lines' after opening 'the book'. Some hallmarks? Contradictions should be obvious enough warnings. Others include violations of common sense and body language inconsistent with what one says, as in nodding "yes" while saying "no".

Is some reality counterintuitive? Of course. The idea that light might move at a different speed off a moving object than off a stationary object seems to violate common sense. Thus toss a 100-mph fastball forward from the top of a locomotive traveling at 80 miles per hour, and one has a 180-mph fastball. But light has the same speed no matter what the frame of reference.

I am not sure of what an ISFJ personality is... but whatever my personality, Donald Trump and I do not get along. I see him as a fake and poseur.