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

On 05/07/2024 03:10, Borax Man wrote:

On 2024-07-04, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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".

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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.
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Because they have more 'facts' stuffed in their heads, they feel they
are actually better qualified to run things than plebs.
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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.
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The problem with following the herd, is that all you see is arseholes.
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Too much education for not very high quality brains leads to a belief in
all this woke shit.
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 Marxism says that intellectuals should rule and make decisions, so it
appeals to those who perceive themselves to be intellectuals, who know
better than us.  This seems to underlie the thinking, "we are the
educated elite, and we know better".  So naturally, an ideology which
puts them in power, is appealing.  We've run the experiment, put
intellectuals in power, and it didn't work.  I don't really have a
problem with people being educated, after all, I am as well, but I do
with the hubris that education makes one better placed to decide how
society should work.  Your degree in Software Engineering does NOT put
you in a better position to comment on social issues and politics and
what values are good for society.

1. My degree is not in software engineering
2. My contempt is not for true intellectuals, but for the vast majority of pseudo intellectuals who are as you describe above.
3. I have far more time for the ordinary bloke on the shop floor who has learnt by direct experience.

 I see this quite often in my line of work, this condescension towards
the uneducated, that people only vote a particular way because of
ignorance of fear.  Worse, is that this mentality is now promoted and
coddled, workplaces now champion themselves as promoters of a "social
good", which gives those who work there an even bigger head.

The only people who vote for delusion are the champagne socialists with their Art degrees and their moral 'issues'
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To ban Christmas, simply give turkeys the vote.