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Originally Posted by csmith12
I feel ya, I just call em as I see em. I don't make the rules, but I have to play by them. If you're gunna call one out... then call em all out, not just the one that makes good for the purpose of benefit. Ya see, I aint pointing to a single man, I am pointing to an issue with ALL of us.
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One minor problem with "calling them as one sees them":
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5974468/the-m...being-rational
It's the reason why a highly educated and intelligent engineer can get talked into becoming a suicide bomber:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health...ldabomber.html
It's easy to accept personal biases as representing the norm, that's literally how we humans are biologically wired. It wasn't until the Renaissance and the introduction of formal scientific method thinking that we were, after a quarter million years, finally able to start breaking our way out of that. However, rational thinking is not natural or normal for our meat brains, so it takes a lot of hard work on an ongoing basis to avoid slipping back into thinking like meat. That's what people like Trump and Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein and so many others in our history rely on to bring people, and power, to themselves. They convince us to think with our built-in biases and feelings, and once they've created that kind of thinking in their followers they create the hatreds and lies that continue to support those biases. Trump's followers truly believe that he's never molested a female, they believe that to the core of their being, and thus consider anyone who says otherwise to be a liar and, more importantly, an enemy. They are the perfect proof of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
And all of us have this issue. The real question is, which of us can recognize this within ourselves and actively work to overcome it? Trump's followers have demonstrated their failure to do this, though I don't really blame them. Trump is as good a manipulator of people as any other con man of the last century. I see his followers as his victims, just as much as I see suicide bombers as victims of their leaders.