Posted on 01/16/2022 3:51:15 AM PST by algore
A new study suggests we are living in the post-truth era where 'feelings trump facts,' as language has become less rational and more emotional over the past 40 years.
A team of scientists found words like 'determine' and 'conclusion' that were popular from 1850 through 1980 have been since been replaced with human experience such as 'feel' and 'believe.'
The team also identified another major shift around 2007 with the birth of social media, when the use of emotion-laden language surged and fact-related words dropped.
Although the drivers behind the shift cannot be determined, the researchers suggest it could be a rapid development in science and technology or tensions that came about from changes in economic polices in the early 1980s.
There was also a shift from a collective language to an individual one, which the team identified by a surge in 'I', 'me' and 'you.'
Lead author Marten Scheffer of WUR said in a statement: 'Inferring the drivers of long-term patterns seen from 1850 until 1980 necessarily remains speculative.
'One possibility when it comes to the trends from 1850 to 1980 is that the rapid developments in science and technology and their socio-economic benefits drove a rise in status of the scientific approach, which gradually permeated culture, society, and its institutions ranging from the education to politics.
'As argued early on by Max Weber, this may have led to a process of 'disenchantment' as the role of spiritualism dwindled in modernized, bureaucratic, and secularized societies.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Another is the rise in importance of women voters.
Giving the stupid a voice is the worst thing that has happened humanity. Becase we are now ruled by stupid tv, stupid, criminals, a stupid justice system, a stupid prseident and a stupid government.. because its bad manners to point out stupid.
facts don't matter, stupid's feelings do.
Running ones life off of “feelings” and “emotions” are largely female traits. Sadly, the radical feminists have helped to neuter men, making males in our society much more feminin.
Cognitive behavioral therapy helps address this imbalance of thinking.
“...emotional language like ‘feel’ and ‘believe’...”
I’m old enough to remember that Liberals have always spoken this way.
They have to. Their constituents are under educated/uneducated, young, inexperienced or otherwise, mentally challenged and intellectually deficient.
That means-there is NO sure way to reach them. Lies, half-lies, disinformation, misinformation, misrepresentation and school yard hysterics are the ONLY things that Liberal voters comprehend. They base their ‘politics’ on the whole Liberal ritual of Kabuki antics and puerile posturing.
For ME... if you want my attention, my money, my support ...my VOTE, don’t approach me with emotion. THAT’S when you lose me and any hope of acquiring MY esteem!
Every decision. ..every conclusion... every single move I ever made, based on emotion, was a disaster and all my own fault. I learned that long ago.
On a growing list of subjects, Leftists are ready to demonize and dehumanize and destroy any person that dares express the truth of the matter. The truth about Islam, climate change, police shootings, gun violence, covid jabs, the history of the Democrat Party, Election Fraud, cloth mask effectiveness, the gender of confused individuals, effectiveness of socialism, effectiveness of capitalism, and the list goes on and on.
Agreed
“researchers suggest it could be a rapid development in science and technology or tensions that came about from changes in economic polices in the early 1980s. “
Or not. I think things really started changing in the 1960’s. It was a very slow, creeping movement that started picking up speed in the 70’s , 80’s and 90’s with the advent of personal computers and then cell phones and the resulting social effects.
Life seemed simpler and more innocent 60 yrs ago. It was a different world.
I remember some leftist saying “they have the people facts but we have our truth”.
Whenever someone asks me how I feel about something, I respond with:
“I don’t feel anything about that, but this is what I think about it...”
Muggeridge observed of this seeming postmodern era: “If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.”
Today's latest “follow the science” is mouthed by people who think males can become females surgically, executive orders by some president are not dictatorial, and more. Because feelings....
Classical liberalism was killed off by fake, authoritarian ‘liberalism,’ as Hayek wrote in 1949: “...if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost. The intellectual revival of liberalism is already under way in many parts of the world. Will it be in time?”
Will it be in time? I hope so. But rebellions must continue against the mass psychosis driven by media and dishonest players "playing" with felelings.
The increase of *I, me, you* is probably linked to psychological advice to use terms like that to confront people without making accusatory statements.
It’s very passive aggressive, a controlling way of manipulating others around you.
Do people see better if you call them "visually impaired" instead of "blind?" Do they hear better if you call them "hearing impaired" instead of "deaf?"
Do midgets and dwarfs miraculously get taller if you call them "little people?"
And I'm not going anywhere near the litany of euphemisms for racial and ethnic groups.
All euphemisms suck because they favor feelings over truth.
"Every thing is what it is, and not another thing."
-- Joseph Butler
“An obvious development is the taking over of cultural institutions by the Left, and the appeal to emotion because their case is not logical. Another is the rise in importance of women voters.”
Bingo. On both counts.
“An obvious development is the taking over of cultural institutions by the Left”
As planned by the Fabians over 100 years ago. And morphed into the Frankfurt School “Long March Through The Institutions.”
Mission accomplished. We have 2 generations of idiots with no critical reasoning skills.
“I feel, therefore it IS.”
Now it’s, “Lived Experience.”.
All you have to do is look at the large number emotion-driven article titles using words like “horrifying” and “terrifying.”
This was done on purpose by the communists and other low IQ secret society types.
They wanted to produce what we see in the millennial generation. And they wanted to continually divide us into groups.
Just remember—although your leftist neighbor is wrong in his political beliefs, you shouldn’t hate him.
Turn your anger onto the elites. They perpetrated everything you’re seeing now.
It comes with Feminization of Society.
I think you have it reversed. It was the large and increasing number of women in positions of authority which drove the takeover of institutions by the Left.
A higher percentage of women, and a much higher percentage of unmarried women, identify as Democrats.
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