Posted on 07/25/2025 5:42:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It is important to debate ideas. Debating those who disagree with you clarifies your own thoughts and shores up weaknesses in your reasoning. Civil argument is wonderful exercise for the mind. Healthy minds make good citizens. Good citizens maintain strong societies.
It is, therefore, not an exaggeration to conclude that one of the first signs of a crumbling society is the inability of its people to argue peacefully among themselves.
I think most people born before 1990 would agree that public debate has disintegrated over the last three decades. We are no longer able to argue passionately — perhaps even shouting at each other — and end our disagreements by shaking hands, smiling, and moving on. Everything today is a vicious grudge match that participants treat as existential in nature — either I win this debate or my worth as a person is zero!
Ideological zealotry has replaced thinking. Thinking requires a person to accept the limitations of his knowledge and the possibility that he might be wrong. Ideological zealotry short-circuits the mind’s capacity for reason and prevents those so afflicted from enjoying true creativity.
In my experience, this affliction primarily torments those who would identify as being part of the political left. No doubt they would call me a partisan and explain all the ways my Christian beliefs trap me in a mental prison. They would be wrong. People who are confident in their beliefs should welcome outside challenges.
At some point as we move from adolescence to adulthood, those with enough curiosity to chase answers in this life have an epiphany: Truth abides regardless of how vigorously it is tested. It is only when we are willing to leave the relative safety of what we already know
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Communism is built on deception and lies.
BTTT
And socialism is but communism with training wheels.
Socialism is communism sold by the drink instead of by the bottle.
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A lot of people have gotten fragile. The collapse of a common culture is part of it, especially since the left’s underlying project is an aggressive campaign to eradicate the traditional culture. The left is now openly hostile to anyone who does not bend the knee.
Social media siloing is a big part of it. Too many people have no idea what the other side is talking about.
But there is a special toxicity to the modern left. This is rooted ultimately in the realization, at some (often unarticulated) level, that it is living a lie. People living a lie cannot tolerate truth tellers. Nor can they take a joke.
Paraphrasing and augmenting Lenin - Liberalism is an infantile mental disorder.
I think you are spot on. It’s harder to be told that your entire world view has been based on falsehood.
In my estimation, scientists who believe in God are much more creative intellectuals than their atheistic colleagues. I have long suspected that this is so because the former are certain that there is much that they can never know, while the latter are certain that they will know everything. When one believes that man is master over everything, an intellectual dullness sets in.There's nothing less intelligent than a person who is certain he is right and everyone else is wrong and inferior. You can see some of that right here on FR. These people do not enter into a debate over ideas; they only lecture.
Those on the Left are unified in their belief that they know the answer, and, in this unified unwillingness even to consider that they might be wrong, they have, intellectually-speaking, run off the road and into the ditch.
I believe that one indicator of intelligence is to know that there is a lot one does not know. To realize that there is not one person in this world that knows everything. As Will Rogers once said, there is no one more stupid than an educated mam if you get him off what he was educated in.
Hey Rooster.
One of the traits most “true believers” of any ideology have is that when they are confronted with any data that suggests their views may have an error...
They will build an additional superstructure on top of their old beliefs to deal with the error...
Instead of using that as an opportunity to take a closer look at their views to find any logic holes.
Communism is built on deception and lies.
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That’s the truth of the matter.
They cannot survive without lies and deception. The truth is their enemy.
They can say and do about anything without worry because they rely on the ignorance and group think mindset of their dumbed down supporters/sheep.
Written before they saw the premier episode of Southpark.
In true tradition, they Skewered CBS but the real point of this episode was Trump. And yes, Epstein is part of it.
You can view it on twitter but there are going to be a lot of people here outraged at it.
btw, Cartman tries to kill himself because Woke is Dead but not successful because he didnt use a gas powered car
Here is the PSA for the Trump agreed upon settlement
https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1948252351816409508
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The irony is that a major theme of this episode was avoiding Trump’s lawsuits. Let’s see what happens lmao. South Park is going for the meta art. Kind of brilliant performance art to see if he proves their point LMAO 😂
Agreed. I’ve learned to steer clear of true believers and know-it-alls. What begins as a seemingly open exchange often turns nasty the moment you question their dogma. They’re not interested in dialogue—only in pushing their deeply held belief.
Exactly.
That’s true.
Very.
True.
They are the joke.
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