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uziq wrote:

Larssen wrote:

I am seeing strong overlaps between incels, engineers, mensa, conspiracy nutjobs and extreme right wing political views. Some gold from the comments in the atricle:

That's certainly what you want people to believe... And, it shows the depth of the Lefts lack of moral character, i.e., that you prefer that we all act like stupid sheep...do what we're told, when we're told and by anyone you say we should pay attention to, irrespective of their IQ, morals, or vicissitude.
Quick fact check: IQ's were what got us to the moon and lack of IQ's is why were haven't been back. IQ's were what caused the creating of the US Constitution and lack of IQ's is why Americans have fewer Freedoms today than yesterday and why we accept BS such as this as true or factual, regardless of the actual needs and wants of Americans. Further, a decided lack of IQ's is why Russia and China are the two most powerful countries (and Richest) in the world and why the US is now an official third-world country... Just as you decided we should be. Nice work.

This article was so bad I couldn't finish reading it. That the author, Simonton, is a "distinguished" professor of psychology at UC Davis left me wondering how ignorant the professors without "distinguished" in front of their name are. Potential students, beware; steer clear of a university that employs such people; you will not receive an education.

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I have perused the comments for this article and the
consensus seems to lean toward the flaws of Simonton's discussion. It's almost as if the author painted a red
bullseye on the writing with the suggestion it be destroyed. If I had the time and was so inclined I could do a stellar critique of this article. I have to believe that the author accomplished his main (and perhaps only) objective; to be published.

There is no bragging to be done. I was assessed as reading on a sophomore in college in the beginning of the fifth grade. My achievement in school continued apace. The problem was and is;the achievements most people desire are empty. And most "smart" people aren't. The average iq of Doctors, lawyers,judges, college professor, are about 124. Not very bright. Not bright enough to recognize brilliance. As most people aren't. In fact when your that much smarter,they think you are the idiot. Genius doesn't stand a chance.

Dilbert, these are obviously your people. Do you by chance have a mensa certificate somewhere?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CriticalTheory … y_against/

linked to me today.

RTHKI wrote:

Might be able to specifically ask for an ambulance but that probably costs money. I usually don't see a cop on the scene with an ambulance for house calls.

Last edited by Larssen (2020-10-29 12:09:26)

uziq wrote:

i think it's safe to say that if you or any of your loved ones are having a mental health crisis in the states, do not call the cops.

i must have seen about 5 videos this year of people having psychotic episodes or in emotional distress, maybe even a few examples of people with life-long learning disabilities, just being fucking murdered by cops over the most routine shit. some relative calls the boys in blue out because they've lost control of a situation or a person has gone missing, for e.g., and the cop comes out and sends the poor person off to the morgue.

deeply fucked up and upsetting to see.

The most momentous development of our era, precisely, is the waning of the nation state: its inability to withstand countervailing 21st-century forces, and its calamitous loss of influence over human circumstance. National political authority is in decline, and, since we do not know any other sort, it feels like the end of the world. This is why a strange brand of apocalyptic nationalism is so widely in vogue. But the current appeal of machismo as political style, the wall-building and xenophobia, the mythology and race theory, the fantastical promises of national restoration – these are not cures, but symptoms of what is slowly revealing itself to all: nation states everywhere are in an advanced state of political and moral decay from which they cannot individually extricate themselves.

Why is this happening? In brief, 20th-century political structures are drowning in a 21st-century ocean of deregulated finance, autonomous technology, religious militancy and great-power rivalry. Meanwhile, the suppressed consequences of 20th-century recklessness in the once-colonised world are erupting, cracking nations into fragments and forcing populations into post-national solidarities: roving tribal militias, ethnic and religious sub-states and super-states. Finally, the old superpowers’ demolition of old ideas of international society – ideas of the “society of nations” that were essential to the way the new world order was envisioned after 1918 – has turned the nation-state system into a lawless gangland; and this is now producing a nihilistic backlash from the ones who have been most terrorised and despoiled.

More dramatically, great numbers of people are losing all semblance of a national home, and finding themselves pitched into a particular kind of contemporary hell. Seven years after the fall of Gaddafi’s dictatorship, Libya is controlled by two rival governments, each with its own parliament, and by several militia groups fighting to control oil wealth. But Libya is only one of many countries that appear whole only on maps. Since 1989, barely 5% of the world’s wars have taken place between states: national breakdown, not foreign invasion, has caused the vast majority of the 9 million war deaths in that time. And, as we know from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Syria, the ensuing vacuum can suck in firepower from all over the world, destroying conditions for life and spewing shell-shocked refugees in every direction. Nothing advertises the crisis of our nation-state system so well, in fact, as its 65 million refugees – a “new normal” far greater than the “old emergency” (in 1945) of 40 million. The unwillingness even to acknowledge this crisis, meanwhile, is appropriately captured by the contempt for refugees that now drives so much of politics in the rich world.

Last edited by Larssen (2020-10-31 15:11:55)

Larssen wrote:

Note the extensive amount of time devoted to aggressively assailing or stereotyping the author rather than constructing an actual argument