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Ideological Blindness In Real Life
I was speaking with a co-worker the other day, and we got into a discussion about men and women in sports. He almost took offense to my statement that men are generally stronger than women. He claimed I was trying to say men were better than women by citing examples of men beating top-ranked women, like when the 203rd ranked men’s tennis player beat both Venus and Serena Williams after they declared they could beat any man outside the top 200.
It was a strange experience because I didn’t think people could really be so blinded by ideology. I thought these sorts of people existed only in the dark recesses of college campuses for the sole purpose of being reported upon by The Daily Wire. Yet here I was, speaking with someone who was aghast at my simple statement of fact. “I have a degree in anthropology!”
As always, I was respectful and tried to keep the tone light, but he bristled at the slightest implication that men were stronger than women. I realize now that ideological blindness is very, very real, and that it is really, really dangerous. If real people — people I know and interact with — can succumb to it, I really worry for the future, more so than I have in the past. I had always hoped that the extreme left wing was relegated to the very far margins of our republic; unfortunately, it seems I was mistaken.
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Wouldn’t we all like to create our own? The problem is that we are in this co-created reality for important reasons. We learn. We teach. We grow. Were we never challenged and did we never challenge others, none of us would grow. We would each be complacent in his own “sensible” universe. Not the way reality and the human race works, though.
I’m not convinced that if man were capable of creating his own universe that it would be anything resembling “sensible.”
The will always be extremists like that in every political camp. But the Left seems to produce them in bulk. And those extremists now run the show on the Left.
Never underestimate the willful blindness of a Leftist. Some of the most educated among them are also the most foolish. Otherwise, how could so many Leftist academics insist that Human Nature is malleable (and even perfectible) in the face of 3000 years of history that demonstrates that it is not?
But I will give them points for persistence. They never give up insisting they know all.
Exactly why the word was in scare quotes.
I stand corrected. You are absolutely right.
Was his name Bobby Riggs?
Reality used to be that humans couldn’t fly. Thanks to the Wright Brothers, that reality was shattered. Clearly, it therefore follows that any reality can be re-engineered.
Man already creates universes. You’ve never played SimCity?
Well, that’s no fun.
Ya, Mis. Why don’t you ever admit it when I point out some of your more ridiculous statements?
Have I never gifted you the “it’s a fair cop” meme?
Seems like an oversight.
Eh, I think the example is an example of something without conscious control, which is different from the commonly understood meaning of “losing” control.
Automatically pulling your arm back from a hot stove is and automatic reaction. Flipping out and screaming at your kid for leaving the stove on and not warning you is losing control.