A major difference between a great number of leftists and conservatives exists in their assumptions about the nature of reality.
One assumption by most leftists is "people are basically good". It is the culture which has taught them to be evil.
Most conservatives believe children are wild animals which must be taught to do the right thing. Culture and tradition and religion are how we teach them to do the right thing.
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this is the most damaging concept in world history.
this willfully ignorant idea , a secular humanist worldview birthed in darwinism and producing borgs ripe for communism brain rot.
when ever i am entangled with one of these academia induced stupidity, I ask 2 questions
do you have to teach a toddler how to be bad (misbehave)?
or do you have to teach a toddler to be good ( behave ) ?
The problem with very smart leftists is that they cannot possible be wrong because how smart they KNOW they are.
Facts be darned!
This is very true. I find them to be naive. They don’t question the media. They begin with a juvenile view of the world which then gets reinforced at university by ‘professors’, whom are still stuck on stupid too, giving them a false sense of security in their opinion. After all, these ‘professors’ are hired because they’re ‘the best and brightest’.
They will teach “all people are basically the same”...which is an immediate attempt to dismantle Christianity as “you can be good without God”. It also means Muslims are just like you and I. They have no understanding of how “right and wrong” are extremely subjective depending on the moral value structure of the predominant religion. That in our culture, you are saturated with Judeo-Christian concepts of morals...regardless if you’re religious or not. It’s all you know, humans tend to not question what is “all they know” - very few get to really live an existence outside their own culture.
It’s an immature understanding of human nature. They also don’t know how to share, they’re only generous with other peoples’ money. The result is the self loving, virtue signaling, narcissistic, and arrogant attitude - where the only reason another person may disagree with them must be due to low intelligence or ignorance, if they only were as smart and educated as them you’d agree. All without realizing the Dunning Kruger Effect, that the opposite might be true.
Leftists either believe people are good OR they believe in the perfectibility of man. ie they actually believe they can change human nature.
Its pure folly. Humans are going to be human - always and everywhere. We are no different today in our intelligence or temperament than the first farmers 10,000 years ago or the hunter gatherers before that.