Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(10-17-2020, 06:31 AM)David Horn Wrote: Even this sketchy overview is seriously flawed.  Ignoring the Viet Minh as OSS clients during WW-II is particularly irritating, since we guaranteed them our support for decolonization after the war.  

Did you actually look into this, or just write your personal views in long form?

I am finding that one’s ideology, one’s personal opinion, and an attempt at objective analysis are very hard to separate, especially in an ideologue, one whose primary way of looking at things is through his political beliefs.  In the case of Generational Dynamics, you can count on any understanding of motivation to be replaced with what would normally be ideology, and a bad parody of the ideology of rivals.  In Classic’s and CW’s case you get the delusion that a whole bunch of people share their way of looking at things, an ability to pretend any evidence to the contrary is not real.  Stating facts is irrelevant if the facts are not convenient to the ideologue.

You have to take the other person’s world view and values seriously.  How does the ideologue view the world?  What does he think important to strive for?  Mix in all too often a bad misunderstanding of the motivation of rival ideologies.  Assume an ideologue arranges his understanding of opposing ideologies to best justify his own ideology.

If you want to examine your own biases in this direction, assume liberals will disregard the Constitution and rule of laws when it conveniences them.  Most obviously, the Bill of Rights is supposed to reflect the values and world views of everybody.  It shouldn’t change without a change in the supermajority’s values.  This doesn’t seem to effect liberals, who place legislation from the bench and political whims ahead of the rule of law.

Generational Dynamics pretends to be scientific, but is less concerned with making the best possible match with reality than better justifying the author’s personal ideology.  In that sense, it is not scientific at all.  Any real research into reality is badly warped to justify the ideology.