Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder

On 04/07/2024 11:41, Borax Man wrote:

Most people in "tech" seem to be insufferable progressives.
Unfortunately people now seem to think that everything they touch, and
everything they get involved in, needs to be "activist".

The fact is that Marxism - and this is another example of it, even if its protagonists dont realise it - is attractive to people who think they are smarter than they actually are.
They are not super bright and cannot work things out for themselves from first principles but they are absolutely capable of absorbing enormous quantities of received wisdom, which they regurgitate using the justification that Greater Minds have said it, therefore it must be true. This is the "Argumentum Ad Auctoritatem" fallacy.
Because they have more 'facts' stuffed in their heads, they feel they are actually better qualified to run things than plebs.
Unfortunately they are vulnerable to any kind of carefully crafted bullshit that comes along, because having decreed that ordinary common sense is what plebs have, and the Truth is what they have, they are never minded to actually attempt to understand the reality of what they believe in. And fearful of being the first to declare that the Emperor has no clothes, they use their Bandar Logic (We all say it, so it must be true) to follow the herd of the minor intelligentsia, and follow the herd.
The problem with following the herd, is that all you see is arseholes.
Too much education for not very high quality brains leads to a belief in all this woke shit.
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"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it."
    - Stephen Vizinczey