I'm glad that Michael Moore isn't popular anymore.

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VegetableMan
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11 Feb 2018, 3:52 pm

I have my issues with Moore, but he did get right before the 2016 election when he predicted Trump's victory, and basically said it was going to be a big "f**k you" to the political establishment.


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11 Feb 2018, 4:08 pm

VegetableMan wrote:
and basically said it was going to be a big "f**k you" to the political establishment.


And deservedly so, from my ill-informed perspective...
To me, it seemed Hillary, and the Democrats, lost the battle rather Trump winning...

There seems to be a revolt against the establishment globally...

I never embarked on the Michael Moore boat even though I had intended to...
He had been a force of influence...
Now it seems he is yesterday news...
Such is life...<shrug>



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11 Feb 2018, 5:41 pm

blazingstar wrote:
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Pepe wrote:
Damn!
You saw that critical error in my reasoning...
You must be one of the few who has a greater intellectual capacity...
Go away, you are weakening my argument... :mrgreen:


blazingstar wrote:
And here I thought you liked the challenge! 8)


<huffin 'n puffin...>
Are you going me?
DO YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME!! !?
Challenge accepted! :mrgreen:

I used to be a young and dumb puppy also...
Very much more young and dumb than most, significantly due to my autism, but predominately due to having a profound dissociative disorder in my early life...

At the age of 22, I vowed to change my situation...
I made a conscious allegiance to the truth which necessitated the eventual development of greater emotional control and objectivity...

I embraced the principle of:
"It isn't a sin to be ignorant...
It is a sin to stay ignorant..."

It was an exceedingly difficult journey, which lasted literally decades, but the result speaks for itself...
<mentally picture a cerebral Arnie Schwarzenegger power pose>

I have transcended mere lower emotionalistic mortals and have joined the ranks of towering intellectuals such as Plato, Socrates, Jordan Peterson and Mickey Mouse...

<sing>
Quote:
Fairy tales can come true...
It can happen to you if you're old at heart...
For it's hard, you will find...
To be narrow of mind if you're old at heart...



blazingstar wrote:
...the majority of people cannot use, or do not know how to use, their intellectual capabilities to make decisions.


Meandering through emotional eddies takes little to no effort...
Serotonin, dopamine and adrenaline are addictive substances...
True emotionalists are essentially junkies...

And this is very important to note:
Emotionalism enables confirmation bias...
Passion is the nemesis of objectivity...



Conversely, intellectual/emotional disciple requires effort to establish and maintain, even without malevolent environmental factors
"determined" to derail one's life's direction...

blazingstar wrote:
Thus, those who want to see change, whether for bad or for good, use emotional appeals. Maybe we now have mob mentality, courtesy of the internet. :roll:


Mob mentality has always been a problem particularly in the neurotypical community who overwhelmingly dominate our life system...
A lynch mob mentality is simply a manifestation of predominately their evolutionary past...
Some have been able to evolve away from that primitive mindset...
But many haven't...

However, a mob mentality which is indicative of a lessened emotional discipline has been exacerbated by the advent of the world wide web where anonymity has encouraged sociopathic and psychopathic emotionalism...

Happy now? :mrgreen: