Are liberals really more creative?
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I wouldn't say hip hop is politically conservative, culturally conservative in some sense but that's a reflection of the black community in this country. Guns are maybe the one issue you could argue since rappers will occasionally defend the 2nd Amendment such as Ice Cube, its absurd for a lot of black people in this country to buy into the idea that the police will protect them, their homes, and their families so naturally they have to take things into their own hands. Liberals don't live in these urban ghetto hellholes that poor people do, they don't live in our reality which is one where you can get robbed or killed just walking to the store and that could be from gangbangers or police. Taking guns away from law abiding citizens puts them at risk from those that don't follow the law.
Anecdotally, I am liberal but not at all creative. I routinely do badly at classic tests of creativity like 'what are 20 different uses for a paperclip?" (They didn't use the classics, probably thought the students had already done them and 'knew the answers'). This lack of creativity is actually a life hindrance since I have a hard time thinking of out-of-the-box solutions to problems after the inside-the-box solutions fail. But then again the researchers never said all liberals are more creative than all conservatives. Although you might think they did from the media articles which will give a one sentence disclaimer that it was 'not all'.
Here is an eye-rolling example .
http://www.glittersnipe.com/2012/12/18/left-brain-vs-right-brain-ted-nugent-is-as-good-as-it-gets-for-the-gop/
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Short term over long term is the opposite of fiscal conservatism FWIW, flaunting wealth is only a conservative value if your name is Donald Trump.
Short term over long term is the opposite of fiscal conservatism FWIW, flaunting wealth is only a conservative value if your name is Donald Trump.
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Short term over long term is the opposite of fiscal conservatism FWIW, flaunting wealth is only a conservative value if your name is Donald Trump.
Most people in office are just opportunists, conservatives are conservative and liberals are liberal because that's what they need to identify as to get elected but voting public rarely ever scrutinizes their elected officials on their actual votes but just their rhetoric. Most so called conservatives and liberals who are elected are anything but. The whole political system is garbage and based on lies.
Most people in office are just opportunists, conservatives are conservative and liberals are liberal because that's what they need to identify as to get elected but voting public rarely ever scrutinizes their elected officials on their actual votes but just their rhetoric. Most so called conservatives and liberals who are elected are anything but. The whole political system is garbage and based on lies.
The parameters were that the photos couldn't be random. They had to answer the question "who are you?" visually. And the written part couldn't be unconnected to the photos. It had to be about "how the photos do and do not capture who you are". Counterintuitively, tight parameters do steer people towards greater creativity.
I get a pretentious vibe from that idea. As a matter of fact, I could take a picture of nearly anything and say it's not me. Same goes with saying it is. Anything can be interpreted in any way, even something as insignificant as a birthmark on a gnat or a spare leg on a roly poly, the latter would apply to the soul who feels like a third wheel.
Of course I would have a blast, now that I consider it, finding a series of freakish events or occurrences, exploring ways they apply to me so on second thought, maybe it wouldn't be too bad. It just made my flesh crawl a bit contemplating the seemingly endless parade of autobiographies and self descriptions. The totality of it, not just the ones I wrote.
Liberals get very creative when defining reality as something that is someone else's fault. Only they can see wrong and assign blame, which never falls on the best laid plans of mice and Liberals.
We know where it comes from, when a woman is caught red handed, she blames a male.
Since sex, religion, politics are not spoken of in public, people talk about the weather, so that is now a Liberal attack point. How dare you say it might rain!
On the climate debate, there is nothing to debate, the issue has been decided!
Liberals deny history, only slave riding bible whipping sheet wearers defend history.
Liberals have denied that the 1.2 Degree rise in the last 125 years starts from the year 1882, when Krakatoa lowered worldwide temperatures by several degrees.
Liberals deny that there was climate before the industrial era. That over the last few thousand years it has been much colder, and much warmer,
Liberals are totally creative in crafting illusions of oppression. When facts are brought up they will claim oppression.
Other points of view are not seen, just Racist, Sexist, Homophobe, Nazi, Klansmen, Old Testament, means of oppression.
Liberals want things to be like they think they want them to be, where in Science a Fact is or is not true. That is just so one sided, just like a man!
Conservatives can be creative, but they play by the rules of the game, and with the proper pieces and board.
Liberals are not limited by Reality.
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We know where it comes from, when a woman is caught red handed, she blames a male.
Since sex, religion, politics are not spoken of in public, people talk about the weather, so that is now a Liberal attack point. How dare you say it might rain!
On the climate debate, there is nothing to debate, the issue has been decided!
Liberals deny history, only slave riding bible whipping sheet wearers defend history.
Liberals have denied that the 1.2 Degree rise in the last 125 years starts from the year 1882, when Krakatoa lowered worldwide temperatures by several degrees.
Liberals deny that there was climate before the industrial era. That over the last few thousand years it has been much colder, and much warmer,
Liberals are totally creative in crafting illusions of oppression. When facts are brought up they will claim oppression.
Other points of view are not seen, just Racist, Sexist, Homophobe, Nazi, Klansmen, Old Testament, means of oppression.
Liberals want things to be like they think they want them to be, where in Science a Fact is or is not true. That is just so one sided, just like a man!
Conservatives can be creative, but they play by the rules of the game, and with the proper pieces and board.
Liberals are not limited by Reality.
Actually, it's conservatives who snicker at science, and who color history with a prejudicial eye. Case in point with history: recently, Yahoo News had run a story about how perceptions of Grant's Presidency has changed dramatically in recent times. In the 19th century, historians championing the "lost cause myth" attacked Grant for fighting for the rights of freed slaves during Reconstruction, as if that was somehow something terrible. Today, as we Americans - thanks to liberalism - have become more enlightened, we've come to realize that Grant in fact was entirely in the right, and that negative judgements of him have more to do with racism. After all, how can anyone find fault with a man who had driven the original KKK out of existence by force of law? So basically, liberals have a very good grasp on reality, because that reality is seen from the perspective of values like tolerance and justice.
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It amazes me that Nick Clegg gets referred to in a way us Brits know is not true. If you take on board some if not all of what he says, it really is just fiction. He also doesn't give a fig about climate change and rocks the truth sideways.
One minute he wants our borders open the next, he'll shut them right back up to one minute shake my pm's hand to next failing the manifesto and the SNP. What next? strip down energy bills if he gets back in?
I can't bicker much about politics in general anymore, they all seem to lose their status and people's trust eventually.
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I think these kinds of studies are really stupid and slanted.
There was a time when folk accepted that people had differing opinions in polities, but ordinary om were able to get on outside of that or at least be reasonably civil.
Now people are behaving like they are almost a different species. it is beyond ridiculous.
People should fight back against this nonsense.
They're too busy fighting back against each other.
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Science is just a means to take away everyone's freedom to be as irrational as they want, to hold on to whatever beliefs suit their interests, desregarding any annoying evidence to the contrary, and to act on those beliefs with the full force of the number of people sharing their mindset.
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The majority of the history of the United States is without an Income tax.
Not sure why you think you cant run your life unless a government worker manages it for you.
I do hear that from Socialists though, "people are dumb, and need government workers to think for them".