The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-16-2020, 05:50 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Dude, you're an imbecile who has no right to accuse me of being intellectually-destitute or stupid.

I generally think having a strong ideological world view or values does not depend a lot on intelligence. One gets sucked into an ideology in one’s youth and just does not change. It is just a shortcut. Humans react to how a problem fits into their perspective rather than think though each problem afresh. Overall, this has been OK though history, but during the transition between ages it leaves a lot of people running on obsolete perspectives. We have just changed a lot. We are not designed to change a lot. If people live in an environment which does not change, it is hardly a surprise that they do not change.

4Ts have evolved as a way to force people to change their perspective. If you have an obsolete perspective, eventually a 4T will illustrate the mess resulting from a dated perspective and that perspective gets abandoned.

In the Civil War, the old rural bigoted slaveholding faction got creamed, and was forced to take a large step back. I anticipate it will happen again this crisis. That the parties have reversed their progressive vs conservative ideals does not matter. The arrow of progress points towards democracy, equality and human rights. If you are against these things, and a 4T comes along and you lose. Sorry, but you lose.

But somebody’s intelligence has little to do with it. If you look at the strong ideologues of both sides, you see intelligent and less intelligent folks on both sides. Still, there is an unwillingness to check against reality and switch perspectives when there is no match. That is the big difference between an ideological political perspective and a scientific one. Idologues get more attached to their perspective than to reality.

Not sure what to do about that. I guess reality will eventually hit people who try to ignore it hard enough. Harder than I can, anyway.