You're all lost.

[Anomalism]

I hope it didn't take you this long to figure this out.

I just felt like bitching.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

You don't actually care about being accurate, realistic. You care about your side winning. Those are not the same thing, and you've never once stopped to notice the difference.

You will defend a lie if it came from your camp. You will attack a truth if it came from theirs. You've outsourced your reasoning to your identity and called it conviction. You haven't had an original thought about reality in your entire life, just reactions, just reflexes, just the primate satisfaction of seeing the enemy hurt.

The uncomfortable fact is that most people don't have beliefs. They have loyalties dressed up as beliefs. Epistemology cosplay. You couldn't tell me how you know what you know, because you don't know; you were told, and it felt right because everyone around you nodded.

And the anger. As if the intensity of your feelings is evidence of your correctness. As if volume is argument. You're not passionate about truth; you're addicted to the war. Truth would actually end it. You don't want it to end. The genuinely reality-oriented person is nearly extinct in public discourse. What's left is two mirror-image tribes, each convinced they're the rational ones, each using reason as a weapon rather than a compass, pointing it outward, never inward.

It's not a political problem. It's not even a cultural problem. It's a cognitive failure. And the worst part?

Most of you are proud of it.

Disgusting.

Speak for yourself.

 

[Anomalism]

Speak for yourself.

You're right. I'm such a partisan clown, always repping my side. Which side am I on again? I forget. Oh well.

 

[candycorn]

I just felt like bitching.

It was well put. I think one of the greatest cold opens in recent TV (on a premier episode) was when Will Mcavoy on The Newsroom was in a forum and he talked about why America isn’t the greatest country on earth any longer. One of the things that made it such an iconic piece of TV in this century was that he hit both sides. I wish you would have given poingnant examples and I fear your thead may be closed because you didn’t. Anyway...FWIW...good job.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

It was well put. I think one of the greatest cold opens in recent TV (on a premier episode) was when Will Mcavoy on The Newsroom was in a forum and he talked about why America isn’t the greatest country on earth any longer. One of the things that made it such an iconic piece of TV in this century was that he hit both sides. I wish you would have given poingnant examples and I fear your thead may be closed because you didn’t. Anyway...FWIW...good job.

Color me surprised. Like the OP, I stopped read at your first sentence.

 

[OKTexas]

THREAD TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR CLEANING

THREAD REOPENED, STAY ON TOPIC PEOPLE

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

You're right. I'm such a partisan clown, always repping my side. Which side am I on again? I forget. Oh well.

Your own vs everyone else. It’s in your thread title.

 

[Anomalism]

Your own vs everyone else.

True enough.

 

[Anomalism]

Color me surprised. Like the OP, I stopped read at your first sentence.

Reading is hard. I understand your aversion. Have a nice day.