08-22-2020, 04:17 AM
(08-22-2020, 02:58 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(08-21-2020, 07:13 PM)TnT Wrote: One model: There is "DE-scription, there is PRE-scription and there is PRO-scription. I think folks generate their own personal belief system with various mixtures of the three.What's your evidence of racism today? I already saw a black President. I see minorities on the Supreme Court. I see minorities in Congress mainly on the Democratic side (the side with the bulk of minority support) these days. So, how big is the issue today? How racist is the country today compared to the 60's? I haven't seen a sign on a door of a public restaurant prohibiting minorities from entering my entire life. So, how bout you, have you seen any blacks or Hispanics or whatever being refused service strictly on the basis of their race?
Description shows how good we are as individuals at perceiving, interpreting and defining objective reality. Of course, that's the primary problem in the branch of philosophy called epistemology. The study of this is not trivial. However, often we can gather a group of people of good faith and come up with a decent picture of "reality." A shared set of facts, figures and interpretations that can roughly describe some piece of reality of interest.
PREscription is more abstract. This is the part of our belief system where we decide how things SHOULD be. Sometimes, pieces of our reality are as they SHOULD in our opinion. Sometimes little or nothing is. Then, of course, we go around ranting about how things need to change to be as they SHOULD be. So ... there SHOULD be peace. There SHOULD be kindness and generosity. There SHOULD be safety, jobs, food, shelter, healthcare, etc.
PROscription is also abstract, but perhaps resides more in the present reality. These are our beliefs of how things should NOT be. Thus, there should NOT be war, violence, injustice, racism, etc.
Some folks I know tend to be mostly Proscriptionists. Others, mostly Prescriptionists. What makes politics difficult is that some PROscriptionists think there should NOT be government, or regulations, etc. Runs headlong into the PREscriptionists on the other side who might want a benevolent regulated socialism.
What I find mostly missing is an adequate DEscription of our civilization/society, AND an articulate PRE and PRO scription of the desired outcome, AND a change management plan to get from point A to point B.
Take the issue of racism. One side PROscribes its existence, while DEscribing its existence with much evidence. The other side covertly PREscribes its existence, while denying that it even exists, thereby dodging the DEscription part.
So we can't even come up with a shared picture of the description of the issue. How in the world, then, can the issue be negotiated and a change management plan designed and executed.
Back to a point made in a previous post, intelligence only deals with how much facility we have at sorting and rearranging our information, interpreting it and deciding whether we like or don't like our reality, then running it through our belief system, which has little to do with our intelligence, and coming up with our own desired outcome.
Sooner or later, the Democratic side is going to have to let go of race because the bulk of the issues are more related to class, parenting and proper child rearing than race today. You want to be dumb and go along with the Obama's and the liberal activists who make their livings off racism and perceived matters relating to race or gender and politically advancement related to race or gender which most American people are aware of today and ignore the real problems that's fine. I've seen some personal altercations with minorities that turned into accusations of racism and threats of lawsuits and so forth. Kamala Harris isn't going to be able to hide from her peers on the other side of the spectrum that don't give a shit her looks or her skin tone or her being a Democratic Senator from a state where Democrats running against Democrats for Senate seats is common these day.
Just so you understand, we are not on the side with all the minority problems with all the minorities elected by minorities to solve minority related problems. We are not on the side that racial bias and gender bias determine political positions, Vice Presidential running mates, corporate positions, whether or not a person keeps their job and so forth. That's where you're old party is at today.
Classic does not admit that enormous wealth gaps, racial profiling and brutality by police, educational gaps, and the dog whistle of anti-welfare slogans that he hears and responds to, are evidence of continued racism. So also are the excessive fear and brutality toward immigrants and the travel bans on people from other religions imposed by his side. So also are the hate crimes that rise wherever his side's hero speaks.
I think though that politicians of liberal and leftist stripes are not without plans. Warren, Sanders and Biden have extensive plans on how to get from point A to point B.
Those who oppose these plans like Gingrich, Bush, McConnell and Trump are those who PROscribe continuation of the status quo in which the rich and white get richer while others (including all life and the Earth itself) get poorer or are more restricted and abused.
This opposition prevents implementation of the plans. Only a blue victory in our 4T will allow them to proceed and lead to renewed progress, although not to perfection. But, the best condition we can hope for is continuing progress. What we have now is stagnation and regression, thanks to the victories in the last 40 or 50 years by the other side.
What we most need now is victory by our side. And while the other side sees itself as the good guys and the true Americans and sees our side as enemies, only our side has the potential to reconnect all the sides in the USA, and to restart progress for everyone that lives up to the full meaning of the creed described in our founding documents. It is ironic, and not always polite to say, but once in every turnings cycle comes a moment for every human being and every nation to decide. There is no substitute for victory, and only a blue victory can make a new consensus possible in the 1T.
That's part of the game of life, personally and in society. Obstacles appear, and if we can face up to them and learn from them and master them, we develop more of that virtue that brower spoke of.