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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication
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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 09:54:05 +0100
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On 05/07/2024 03:10, Borax Man wrote:
> On 2024-07-04, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 04/07/2024 11:41, Borax Man wrote:
>>> Most people in "tech" seem to be insufferable progressives.
>>> Unfortunately people now seem to think that everything they touch, and
>>> everything they get involved in, needs to be "activist".
>>
>> The fact is that Marxism - and this is another example of it, even if
>> its protagonists dont realise it - is attractive to people who think
>> they are smarter than they actually are.
>> They are not super bright and cannot work things out for themselves from
>> first principles but they are absolutely capable of absorbing enormous
>> quantities of received wisdom, which they regurgitate using the
>> justification that Greater Minds have said it, therefore it must be
>> true. This is the "Argumentum Ad Auctoritatem" fallacy.
>>
>> Because they have more 'facts' stuffed in their heads, they feel they
>> are actually better qualified to run things than plebs.
>>
>> Unfortunately they are vulnerable to any kind of carefully crafted
>> bullshit that comes along, because having decreed that ordinary common
>> sense is what plebs have, and the Truth is what they have, they are
>> never minded to actually attempt to understand the reality of what they
>> believe in. And fearful of being the first to declare that the Emperor
>> has no clothes, they use their Bandar Logic (We all say it, so it must
>> be true) to follow the herd of the minor intelligentsia, and follow the
>> herd.
>>
>> The problem with following the herd, is that all you see is arseholes.
>>
>> Too much education for not very high quality brains leads to a belief in
>> all this woke shit.
>>
> 
> Marxism says that intellectuals should rule and make decisions, so it
> appeals to those who perceive themselves to be intellectuals, who know
> better than us.  This seems to underlie the thinking, "we are the
> educated elite, and we know better".  So naturally, an ideology which
> puts them in power, is appealing.  We've run the experiment, put
> intellectuals in power, and it didn't work.  I don't really have a
> problem with people being educated, after all, I am as well, but I do
> with the hubris that education makes one better placed to decide how
> society should work.  Your degree in Software Engineering does NOT put
> you in a better position to comment on social issues and politics and
> what values are good for society.
1. My degree is not in software engineering
2. My contempt is not for true intellectuals, but for the vast majority 
of pseudo intellectuals who are as you describe above.
3. I have far more time for the ordinary bloke on the shop floor who has 
learnt by direct experience.

> 
> I see this quite often in my line of work, this condescension towards
> the uneducated, that people only vote a particular way because of
> ignorance of fear.  Worse, is that this mentality is now promoted and
> coddled, workplaces now champion themselves as promoters of a "social
> good", which gives those who work there an even bigger head.

The only people who vote for delusion are the champagne socialists with 
their Art degrees and their moral 'issues'

-- 
To ban Christmas, simply give turkeys the vote.