[jonjayray]

Pythonic
I am still grappling with your interesting suggestions about Leftism as a social role. So far I have to say that, although I taught Sociology at a major university for 12 years, you seem a keener sociologist than I am. You seem to see certain roles -- e.g. being a journalist, teacher etc as producing Leftism whereas I see the explanation for Leftism as lying principally in the individual's psychological needs -- regardless of what occupation he/she might have. I will continue to ponder the matter but at least you have caused me to reclassify and reorganize my various explanations of how Leftism can arise under the separate headings of "Sociological explanations" and "Psychological explanations". So that was useful. See http://jonjayray1.blogspot.com
Cheers
JR

[ThePythonicCow]

You seem to see certain roles -- e.g. being a journalist, teacher etc as producing Leftism

Don't confuse the individual with the group. They have different dynamics.

Consider again hurricanes. One could say that they are a bunch of air particles, moving too fast, and then ask why air particles move. Well, being none too bright, and lacking any means of self-propulsion, they usually move because they got bumped by another air particle.

Well, you could persue this study until you were the Professor of Brownian Motion at a major university, and you still wouldn't have a clue about hurricanes.

Look for example at the web page: Hurricanes - online meteorology guide. It considers wind shear, cyclones, precipitation, and clouds. And it considers the stages of development through depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes. Then it examines the structure of a hurricane, which has an eye, the eye wall and spiral rain bands.

Nothing about the physics of an O2 molecule bouncing off an N2 molecule.

In the study I am suggesting, I see not a teacher or journalist. I see the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the New York Times (NYT). These are instances, from my current country and time, of a couple of the atomic units from which are formed the structural elements of this study, the structure and dynamics of liberalism, or say leftology. And its not that the AFT and NYT cause or produce liberalism, no more than the wind blasts in the eye of the hurricane caused the hurricane, or notes cause symphonies.

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I just paused to read some more in your blog http://jonjayray1.blogspot.com. Good stuff. You write well, John. Keep us informed of your work. Thank-you.