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>You don't read the thinkers you are calling idiots and you don't understand what you cited. I am not calling these philosophers idiots, I am saying that they
by twomoretime 7y ago
>You don't read the thinkers you are calling idiots and you don't understand what you cited.
I am not calling these philosophers idiots, I am saying that they encourage dangeous thinking.
The OP quotes:
>Patterns regulating social relations do not derive from reason.
And what I'm saying is that they partly do, as emergent adaptations to reality, except in pampered cultures where comforts erase impetus.
I deleted the part about mathematics because it was no longer applicable to what I ended up writing.
>Your vulgar High Rationality is built on sand
My high rationality is built on the observation that a large swath of people actually believe that there is little value in the cultural norms of old. I used to feel similarly. Then I grew up. My vulgarity is built on frustration with the modern state of the world and the headstrong ignorance of the young adult population in the US. Here's a case in point - ignorant young people would be less uppity if they were taught to show amount some respect to elders. Not blindly, but in the US we seem to have lost an appreciation for the experience that comes with age.
- danharaj 7y agoOk boomer
- twomoretime 7y agoIronic response. I'm in my late 20s. Not a boomer, just on the spectrum.
- danharaj 7y agoBoomer is a state of mind.
- non-entity 7y ago> My vulgarity is built on frustration with the modern state of the world and the headstrong ignorance of the young adult population in the US. Wow young people who lack experience are often headstrong and ignorant. Brilliant, groundbreaking observation there. This surely has not been a thing since civilization began. > Here's a case in point - ignorant young people would be less uppity if they were taught to show amount some respect to elders. And what "respect" should that be. I'll extend a base level of respect and courtesy to everyone, until I have a reason not to. Not all ideas have merit just because they are traditional, just like new ideas are not inherently better than old ones
- ineedasername 7y ago> young people would be less uppity if they were taught to show amount some respect to elders. Not blindly, but in the US we seem to have lost an appreciation for the experience that comes with age To me it seems like the pendulum shifted from something of a mandate for blind respect of elders to the opposite end of blind disregard for experience and expertise. Such cultural pendulums are not uncommon though, and we're probably due for this one to begin shifting its momentum back the other way over the next decade or so.