Posted on 01/02/2017 1:42:13 PM PST by jazusamo
We will never understand liberals and progressives until we recognize that they often see reality as a social construct subject to being challenged and changed. For example, throughout the world, boys and girls have different toy preferences. Typically, boys like to play with cars and trucks, whereas girls prefer dolls. Liberals explain this with the assertion that boys and girls are socialized and encouraged to play with different types of toys by their parents, peers and "society." Growing scientific evidence suggests that toy preferences have a biological origin. Even studies of male and female primates find that they exhibit similar toy preferences. Despite the growing evidence of biological determinism, liberals have managed to intimidate toy sellers into getting rid of the labels "toys for boys" and "toys for girls."
Another reality issue that's extremely annoying to liberals and progressives is chromosomal sex determination. The XX/XY sex determination system is found in humans. Females have two of the same kind of sex chromosome (XX), whereas males have two distinct sex chromosomes (XY). This chromosomal reality is seen as limiting, annoying and an artifact of a patriarchal, chauvinistic society. So liberals and progressives want to change it...
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Preach om Dr Williams!
“The lesson liberals need to learn is that despite their arrogance, they do not have the power to alter reality.”
Unfortunately, liberals have learned they can guilt-trip people into accepting their nonsense. When we start teaching logic in schools again, that might change.
Dr. Williams is a good man. A very intelligent man.
Poor ‘tards, no matter how hard they struggle reality wins every time!
“Dr. Williams is a good man. A very intelligent man.”
I met him years ago. He is also a very nice guy. The type of man you’d want to live next door too.
Yes it actually does.
Yep, they live their fantasies but one day reality comes crashing down on them.
They know perfectly well that they can't alter reality. There objective is to alter the perception of reality to advance their political agenda.
Liberals think that something is true if they say so. Liberals think they can speak things into existence. Only one entity can speak things into existence.
Does it really? It doesn't seem like it to me ... at least, not this side of eternity.
You are right
no, reality never dawns because the excuses are infinite
I’m sure reality strikes some liberals ... and then they become something related to conservative. However, many persist in their fantasies because the world has been made very easy in our times.
On the other hand, sometimes disaster strikes conservatives, and they choose wishful thinking over harsh reality and become liberals.
They will never learn because they do not accept that there is any reality.
Liberals are followers of philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche who taught that there is no objective reality, Nietzsche himself rejected the idea of objective reality arguing that knowledge is contingent and conditional, relative to various fluid perspectives or interests.
IF there is no objective reality then there is no truth and good and evil are conditional on perspective.
Liberals like Nietzsche because being freed from reality and moral absolutes means they can do whatever they want without repercussions.
And as an added bonus because the rest of us insist on living in the real world they can use our moral rectitude against us whenever we fail to live up to our own standards.
Well, sooner or later reality will rebel against their rebellion.
Pouring that kind of universal solvent on everything is perhaps a useful mental exercise, but living it gives us a hell on earth.
Sometimes men have to learn from the consequences of folly because they won’t learn any other way.
And the Garden folly was “knowing good and evil.”
That was double trouble because, first, no human mind could contain all that anyhow; and second, what a human mind could contain, it would often get wrong.
And this isn’t even liberal in the old fashioned sense of the free quest to ascertain, by testing and examination, what truth and beauty are (as opposed to being utterly doctrinaire about it).
This is illiberal, because it unmoors perceptions from all canons of meaning. We can debate objective meaning without doing violence to our nature, but we can’t repudiate it as a concept.
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