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Democracy of idiots?
Sunday, June 3, 2012 7:41 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Sunday, June 3, 2012 7:44 AM
Sunday, June 3, 2012 8:54 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:People who do things badly, Dunning has found in studies conducted with a graduate student, Justin Kruger, are usually supremely confident of their abilities -- more confident, in fact, than people who do things well. ``I began to think that there were probably lots of things that I was bad at, and I didn't know it,'' Dunning said. One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the researchers believe, is that the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence. The incompetent, therefore, suffer doubly, they suggested in a paper appearing in the December issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. ``Not only do they reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it,'' wrote Kruger, now an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, and Dunning.
Sunday, June 3, 2012 12:30 PM
MAGONSDAUGHTER
Sunday, June 3, 2012 12:37 PM
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Monday, June 4, 2012 8:46 AM
KPO
Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.
Monday, June 4, 2012 8:50 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: You've just described Rappy to a tee, and explained the rise of the tea-baggers.
Monday, June 4, 2012 12:57 PM
HKCAVALIER
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: Well, it exposes the shaky foundation of the Enlightenment and its rationale for democracy.
Monday, June 4, 2012 1:04 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: You've just described Rappy to a tee, and explained the rise of the tea-baggers. Because anyone who thinks following Greece's economic path is a bad idea MUST be an idiot. Fact is, it actually describes YOU to a tee, you're just too stupid to realize it.
Monday, June 4, 2012 2:17 PM
Monday, June 4, 2012 2:55 PM
STORYMARK
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: You've just described Rappy to a tee, and explained the rise of the tea-baggers. Because anyone who thinks following Greece's economic path is a bad idea MUST be an idiot. Fact is, it actually describes YOU to a tee, you're just too stupid to realize it. Ah, yes - Rappy falls back on the "I know you are, but what am I?" gambit yet again. Thank you for showing us all just how truly fucking dumb you really are, and how confident you are in that "genius" you're shoveling at us. "I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero "I've not watched the video either, or am incapable of intellectually dealing with the substance of this thread, so I'll instead act like a juvenile and claim victory..." - Rappy
Monday, June 4, 2012 3:02 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Quote:“As long as the child will be trained not by love, but by fear, so long will humanity live not by justice, but by force. As long as the child will be ruled by the educator’s threat and by the father’s rod, so long will mankind be dominated by the policeman’s club, by fear of jail, and by panic of invasion by armies and navies.” Boris Sidis, from “A lecture on the abuse of the fear instinct in early education” in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1919.
Monday, June 4, 2012 6:37 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: Oh hi HKC Thanks for your post, which is insightful, as always.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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