uspol; misanthropy
That awful moment when you're reading the leftist reaction to the Hannity/Cohen story on Twitter, and you realize that... side of the angels or not... most of these are not bright or thoughtful people either. They are just as capable as their opposition of taking what they hope to be true and working backwards from there. Running on pure cognitive bias, and thank god they at least picked the side I agree with to be fanatical about.
uspol; misanthropy
I'm coming to the increasing conclusion that the only thing keeping us from being them is the current lack of a cunning enough Lenin-grade bastard. I've gone through life hoping that there was something "better" about us, some superior reason or character or compassion that made us less prone to folly.
But this year has left me without any faith. I totally support leftist ideals, but it's increasingly despite my fellow travelers, not because of them.
Goddamn it.
uspol; misanthropy
Fuck it. I'm becoming a Premature Benderite by about 1,000 years. Wanna get together and kill all humans?
uspol; misanthropy
@zebratron2084 and a *lot* of human civilizations of all kinds are predicated on exploiting these faulty circuits, to a greater or lesser degree of psychopathic self-interest, because dammit they *work* and are very useful for getting people to fall into line with whatever the agenda du jour is. :|
WE ARE POORLY EVOLVED PRIMATES, NEWS AT 11
uspol; misanthropy
@zebratron2084 you know my opinions on this (well, at least I think you do)--most of this bullshit is the direct result of badly programmed wetware, and until we can *fix* it, we're going to keep falling into the same damn cognitive loops on one scale or another, because we aren't selecting against them strongly enough (and there are very good selectors *for* most of them) to get rid of them "naturally."