Vote for rightwingers, obviously.The question, then, is how to fight the war to win it. Not just to fight it - that's a mug's game - but to win it. — tim wood
Greed and hatred, and believing that greed and hatred are good.But what do you hold to be the source of the greater dangers in the world, both to individuals and to society at every scale? — tim wood
Why then, I'm stupid! And daft how?Pffft. My experience with you informs me otherwise. — baker
Think of me as a shoe-salesman just trying to find for some poor fool the right fit. And to be sure it's not reality I'm fitting, but arete, phronesis, eunoia, and the lack of them. It's not a princely pursuit, nor you Cinderella.Seems like you're just classifying anything you don't like as stupidity. Jamming reality into your stupid shaped boxes. — T Clark
There you go, brother Wood.Am I to infer that both of you prefer stupidity to reasonable alternatives, including reason itself, And have settled yourselves down to enjoy your ride to hell-in-a-handbasket, notwithstanding that in the years 2021 and following, perhaps for a thousand years, in taking that trip you take others with you, in short victimize them on your stupidity? — tim wood
Most generally, and possibly uselessly so, making things worse than they need to be. How much better would the world be if all, even just within the ambit of their own powers, each day made the world a better place than a worse?What, then, is universally stupid (most of the time)? — Manuel
So discuss, already! Or tell me why you are so concerned with assholes?You're incapable of presenting and discussing a topic on a socially relevant issue without being an asshole. — baker
Nice!Stupidity is that failure to let ourselves be discerned from our upbringing. — Gary M Washburn
In the service of self-knowledge, again nice! These, imo, on the way to defeating both ignorance and stupidity.And he and she are smart indeed who use our cultural differences to ratify our distinction from our cultural similarities. — Gary M Washburn
Because at the end of the day, they get to rule the world. And this makes me think that maybe, this is an evolutionary advantage, or the Truth About The World, and as such, not something to repudiate.Or tell me why you are so concerned with assholes? — tim wood
This tells me you have great self-confidence.Dismissing stupidity as a mere social issue has been standard practice, and in most cases probably best - to dismiss it. I find the world a place where even that becomes a luxury no longer affordable, except at an unacceptable price. Or are you, where you live, lucky enough to be unaffected by such things, or at least to think you're unaffected by them.
I try to never confuse stupidity for what might very well be strategy. I find that people are generally strategic, not stupid. They just play dumb, because this can give them an advantage. — baker
Lol! That took a while. But why? They're your ideas and I buy them!Maybe add the h? — Gary M Washburn
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