Seriously, what is actually the point? Why can’t we just use pragmatism and base our opinions on statistical data instead of some idealistic pipe dream? Is believing in an ideology the ultimate form of midwittery?
Left-wing Vs Right-wing? Just Stop
Adrian Davis
Josiah Bailey
Cooper Sullivan
>statistical data
That's an even bigger sign of a midwit, empiricism only gives a very limited understanding of the world. The smart thing to do is just to do what intuitively seems good for your in group.
Daniel Allen
>how to lie with statistics 101
Before you answer with data you need to know who asks the questions.
Austin Bell
Post summed up nicely what I wanted to say.
Dylan Johnson
>That's an even bigger sign of a midwit, empiricism only gives a very limited understanding of the world.
How so?
True, but doesn’t that just show how ideologies just infect everything around them? For it is the ideology that causes certain individuals to change statistics according to their worldview.
Grayson Mitchell
>ideologies
Ideology is a vehicle.
The useful idiots are the wheels. The whores are the engine. Those who benefit are behind the wheel. Vehicles can change. Do the ones bechind the wheel change as well?
Qui bono?
Ayden Martinez
>How so?
Empiricism has nothing to say about anything that can't be tested in lab or studied. So for guiding something as complex as a human society it's not particularly useful. Human societies cannot be grown and tested in a lab to experiment on.
Daniel Ross
>Why can’t we just use pragmatism and base our opinions on statistical data instead of some idealistic pipe dream? Is believing in an ideology the ultimate form of midwittery?
Thats what i tell everyone and the answer is some rambling from conservatives or commies who fail to understand that their 19th century ideologies are deprecated in the 21th century.
Its even worst when people throw Jewish "God" into the equation.
Grayson Allen
Logic and materialism can't form a value system.
Elijah Martinez
Justin Collins
>Logic and materialism can't form a value system.
>Israel
Cooper Carter
Yeah but in practice they almost all share the value system of hedonism sometimes with weird leftist cultural values tacked on.
Blake Turner
This is from the 50s and 60s.
A response to the failure of revolutionary communism is finding an avenue of rebellion.
The sexual revolution was that rebellion.
It was coopted by the late 70s by capital interests to divert your sexual urges towards dirty advertisements...
This is status-quo because the barrier was broken and nobody wanted to invest energy in fixing public morality regarding sex.
Carson Taylor
>this
Using pragmatism mainly in daily life creates no idea of value and hence, no moral sense.
Wyatt Lewis
If you're there. Then you're a fucking retard.
Caleb Morgan
>Using pragmatism mainly in daily life creates no idea of value and hence, no moral sense.
Why? Couldn’t you just use consequentialism to determine what is morally correct or incorrect in a nation via statistics and outcomes?
No. That’s just a random image I found.
Ryan Martinez
>posts the liberal chart
I agree. All of these guys are retarded. Third position is better.
Brody Brown
See this graph right here.
You understand that on a 2D line, you're either left or right.
Right: 10 percent own half the shit.
Left: 90 percent own the other half.
So it's easy to judge if you're left or right - and you can't fool yourself.
Wyatt Lee
Left vs right
Conservative vs liberal
Democrat vs republican
Red vs blue
Capitalist vs communist
White vs black
Straight vs gay
Man vs woman
Religious vs atheist
West vs east
Us vs them
You're with us or you're against us
Endless false dichotomies to keep you from actually evaluating any situation based on data and logic. Instead, you must choose a side and take a reactionary position whether it makes sense or not, because that is the what your side demands. Meanwhile, the evildoers of the world choose one or the other of the false dichotomy so as to represent one team vs the other, but behind closed doors, when the cameras are turned off, they work together to enslave us all, laughing all the way to the bank.
Cameron Brooks
Because idealism leads men into gunfire, pragmatism does not.