Re: OT: personal stories

On Fri, 7 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> writes:
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
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Many good hearted leftists are leftists because they cannot see or
do not think
about second order, or third order, or N order effects. They get stuck at the
immediate problem and do not think of how the consequences of their
immediate,
knee jerk, solution will cause more pain down the line. This is sad. =(

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Quite right.  And there is the folly of rewarding A while hoping for B.
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 Kerr, Steven. ``On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B.''
 Academy of Management journal 18.4 (1975): 769-783.

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True!
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Then of course you have evil leftists who are fully aware of this, and
are leftists due to political power gains.

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And there's the post-modernist movement, with their sheer nonsense and
confusion, that finds good reception in such groups---probably more so
than in others.

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It will destroy itself in time. Since they have abandoned objective
truth, and built their ethos on being the most vulnerable group, they
will go down in flames and in fighting, since nothing can be resolved
without any kind of objective truth to ground discussions. Sadly it
takes time.

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It takes time.  Intelligence *always* prevails, directly or indirectly.
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That is the way! Even though it takes time, and the wait is depressing, eventually, as you say, intelligence and positivity always prevail! =)
My proof: We've had nuclear weapons for many decades, and despite all the idiots in power, we have _not_ ended civilization. This proves that there is more good than bad in man. =)