Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-01-2020, 06:28 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(06-01-2020, 10:04 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:

(06-01-2020, 09:32 AM)David Horn Wrote: I can't think of many sources more biased than Dinesh D'Souza -- not even the cast of characters from the Project for the New American Century.

Yes you can.  For example, you're more biased than Dinesh D'Souza.

I've never claimed to be a public intellectual either.

Have you ever been a social pariah though?

I think of you as a fairly classic main line blue.  I sort of expect a blue perspective from you on these forums, but there seems to be no single issue of emphasis or weird obsession to it.  There is nothing like Eric’s bringing in astrology regularly, or Classic’s obsession with violence.  My own bias is generally blue, but I side vehemently with the reds on gun rights and tradition, and respect the desire for small government even if the reds have gone far beyond the point of diminishing return.  The closest thing to a bias you have is that you are a blue living in a red area.  

Now I have encountered reds.  One of my uncles was the Republican sheriff of Plymouth County for a while.  I had a friend in my gaming group with a red perspective, and we learned to avoid talking politics after a few attempts.  But this in general didn’t effect my ability to interact with people.

Nor do I envision Dinesh D’Souza  being pariah.  Well, not a permanent one at least.  His writing is inflammatory, and there were a few points at which he angered even the reds.  At the moment, Trump should have gathered a large enough circle.

How have you dealt with it, as a blue among reds?

I have come to see Xenakis’s problem as not Cassandra’s sin of accurately foretelling to those who don’t want to hear.  It is of having an extreme eccentric point of view that he pushes to the degree of discomfort.

Anyway, it is my belief that everybody has a world view, that everybody is biased.  Your bias is not that unusual.  It is pretty much main stream blue.

Not so Xenakis.  Everybody might be tempted to judge bias against themselves, to think their own perspective is true.  Xenakis is close to Dinesh D'Souza, and D'Sousa is therefore held to have a small bias, even if others including Wiki disagree.  It is not that he has no bias.  It is way out there.  Highly unusual.  Anyone who sees D'Souza as unbiased would have to be unusual.