Category: philosophy

The Idiocy of Mandate

Making something possible doesn’t make it viable or ensure it will be done. When you want something to happen, it should have value to all those involved. True change happens when we see what’s in it for us. If the desired result doesn’t follow your efforts to eliminate barriers, and you aren’t asking yourself what you are doing wrong, your approach and solution is invalid. It’s a research, try, assess, refactor, try again loop, not a commandment.

Two Men

Let’s take two men, standing in the same location. One is nearsighted, vision impared. Two has normal eyesight, good vision. Within the range of One’s vision, both men see the same things, with the same clarity, depth, and focus. Two’s vision extends significantly beyond One’s vision, affording him more information than One can access. Two can see clearly items which One cannot focus. Some items within Two’s range of sight are not visible to One. Which man would you say has the best chance of developing the clearest view of the world around them?

Exchange the word intellect for vision.

Many of us would have no issue with assigning Two the advantage when using “vision” but struggle with the same conclusion when using “intellect”. The second premise seems to unfairly belittle One, and our sense of fairness presses us to compromise our conclusion.

Attacking a Belief Structure

I’m reconsidering how I think about my country. It’s clear at this point that many of the assumptions I’ve made in my lifetime aren’t valid. I’ve projected my view of the person I want to be (and fail to be) onto my country. The population of the United States is not good, moral, acceptant, unselfish (generally), and caring. Neither do we see or care about the big picture, or the world in general. We only care about those last two if aspects of them impact us negatively and personally. This is the United States of America. This is who we are.

I have never had a day’s outcome impact my will to live like November 5, 2024, and I’ve lost a child.

The Politics of Understanding

If you believe you can’t trust the Democrats, why would you think you can trust the Republicans? The concept that ideology drives actions or that actions define ideology is invalid. We must be very careful about our definitions, as two people who differ in opinion could be using different definitions for reference. If you truly want to discuss something and understand a perception, agree on the assumptions you’ll use for reference. Without that you just have people pretending to care. This is why we must talk things through.