An early scene in the movie Tombstone (if you haven't seen it, go sit in the corner) offers us a reunion between the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday (seriously, if you haven't seen Val Kilmer's tour-de-force turn as Doc Holliday - and I wrote this just so I could type tourde-force, your life is incomplete).
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there who make a good living out of spreading the .001% explanations. The more outrageous the better for their ratings and their bank accounts.
Thank you, as always, for your work/insight/style a joy.
Theatre by often frames reality, in such a way we ‘get it’
Doc & Wyatt’s exchange in the sickbed scene regarding Ringo… Wyatt’s questioning of how he could ‘be’, Docs response listing Ringos’ evil to punish the world for his birth
Then a comment that rings true for Hamas, for the domestic imbecile, for all those whose foolishness is coming due
…… it’s a Reckoning
The tensions or perhaps the furies are beyond those of us in the middle seeking reality.
A bitter change may arise in which the good(bad) folks may have need of the phrase… “my hypocrisy only goes so far”
Progressives pride themselves in what they call "cognitive dissonance" - that two contradictory notions (facts) can both be "true" simultaneously. They may do this by "threading the needle" as you say above (the 0.001% chance) but more frequently, they are simply gaslighting - propagandizing - knowing full well they're repeating a bald-face lie, which serves a "greater truth" in their minds. It doesn't matter, you see, if your object is to win at any cost.
I think many gaslight themselves. There are the manipulative cynics who lead the herd, and then there's the herd. Watch videos of some earnest woker-than-thou types and it's clear they fully believe the BS they're regurgitating.
Too few professors and intellectuals are familiar with the aphorism:
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
Whether or not there is a reality that is external, objective, and discoverable is irrelevant. Believing there is and acting as such is useful at both the individual and societal level.
Newton's laws of motion, for example, are wrong. But, they are true enough to be useful. Postmodernism, by contrast, is not even wrong.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there who make a good living out of spreading the .001% explanations. The more outrageous the better for their ratings and their bank accounts.
Thank you, as always, for your work/insight/style a joy.
Theatre by often frames reality, in such a way we ‘get it’
Doc & Wyatt’s exchange in the sickbed scene regarding Ringo… Wyatt’s questioning of how he could ‘be’, Docs response listing Ringos’ evil to punish the world for his birth
Then a comment that rings true for Hamas, for the domestic imbecile, for all those whose foolishness is coming due
…… it’s a Reckoning
The tensions or perhaps the furies are beyond those of us in the middle seeking reality.
A bitter change may arise in which the good(bad) folks may have need of the phrase… “my hypocrisy only goes so far”
Progressives pride themselves in what they call "cognitive dissonance" - that two contradictory notions (facts) can both be "true" simultaneously. They may do this by "threading the needle" as you say above (the 0.001% chance) but more frequently, they are simply gaslighting - propagandizing - knowing full well they're repeating a bald-face lie, which serves a "greater truth" in their minds. It doesn't matter, you see, if your object is to win at any cost.
I think many gaslight themselves. There are the manipulative cynics who lead the herd, and then there's the herd. Watch videos of some earnest woker-than-thou types and it's clear they fully believe the BS they're regurgitating.
This is what Orwell termed, "doublethink."
Love it, as usual. I still say we should return to Geocentrism because epicycloids are cooler than mere elipses!
Too few professors and intellectuals are familiar with the aphorism:
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
Whether or not there is a reality that is external, objective, and discoverable is irrelevant. Believing there is and acting as such is useful at both the individual and societal level.
Newton's laws of motion, for example, are wrong. But, they are true enough to be useful. Postmodernism, by contrast, is not even wrong.