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| Feelings and Facts |
| 2019-02-01 |
| [AccordingtoHoyt] Look, there are two worlds as far as each of us is concerned: the world behind our eyes, and the world outside. What I mean to say is this: you as a person feel, think and believe all sorts of things. No one outside that space behind your eyes has to believe you. ...Beyond that, particularly if you’ve been indoctrinated or are young and stupid enough to believe the media wholesale, you’ll put bizarre interpretations on things. Which is how we get someone being offended by a picture of coal miners and deciding this meant people of color weren’t welcome at the restaurant. ...You see, most babies realize there’s a difference between the world behind the eyes and the world outside by I think around six months. They see the difference between me-not me. I.e. you can move your foot, but you can’t move the mobile over the crib, unless you kick it with your foot. But we have raised generations of kids by telling them their feelings are important, and yes, that disagreement or argument is "threatening." So they’ve lost that distinction. I can no longer find it, but one of the private conferences I frequent, had a video of a woman telling a guy wearing a MAGA hat is racist because she FEELS it is and feelings are real. [Does sinal salute.] Of course feelings are real. A friend who is a psychiatrist keeps telling me I need to own and investigate my feelings, because they are real. But they are real TO ME in the space behind my eyes. For instance, if I hear Green Acres I feel all unsettled. When Lisbon TV stations were taken over in a revolution (oh, you don’t want to know) or attempted coup, the Porto station got cut off. And all they could even play between occasional news updates were some old reels of Green Acres. Coming into the house at lunch time and hearing that music was a BAD sign. Does that mean that Green Acres must mean revolution and unsettled times to anyone else? No. And yet my feeling is REAL. Sure it is, and the mature response to it is to go "Long ago and far away" and wander off while the kids watch it. Even if the conditioned feeling never fully goes away. ...Because here is the thing, if you have to listen to everyone’s "feelings" and every single person’s feelings are as real as facts, we will all need to isolate ourselves from everyone else. I mean, Vegans feel meat is murder. Are they entitled to execute everyone else? I feel very strongly that Marxism needs to be rooted out. I’m totes entitled to hold brain-washing sessions on everyone, and kill Occasional Cortex before she infects more people, right? And I feel loons who assume MAGA hats are really really racist (even though there’s no FACTS to back this up other than their feelings) need to shut their whiny mouths or be given whatfor. So, if I wear a MAGA hat, which of us wins? Care to place bets? ...What people can and should do is challenge the mismatch between feelings and facts. Ones can’t be imposed on others, and the others impose themselves on all of us. Because reality is still what it is. To think otherwise, to think that your feelings should dictate how everyone acts is a form of solipsism, where you think you’re the only real person ever. Because if that’s not true, you will be able to realize you’ll run into other’s feelings, that contradict yours. What this stupid idea is, really, is bad-crazy. That which unmakes civilization. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 Saw the video in question this morning. The guy in the MAGA hat has a great response about how emotions are fleeting and they change, facts don't. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-02-01 14:54 |