Apparently the protesters were so afraid of exposure to your ideas that they couldn't even allow themselves a moment of curiosity about them. Their need to insulate themselves from everything except simplistic, rigidly embraced slogans suggests that the protesters feel unable to defend their beliefs, even to themselves. This is a realist…
Apparently the protesters were so afraid of exposure to your ideas that they couldn't even allow themselves a moment of curiosity about them. Their need to insulate themselves from everything except simplistic, rigidly embraced slogans suggests that the protesters feel unable to defend their beliefs, even to themselves. This is a realistic position, considering how untenable their beliefs are. Beyond that, however, these individuals present themselves as "existentially threatened" by exposure to ideas that differ from the dogmas they have been taught. Such a sense of fragility they must have, to make them cling to a crackpot idea as if it were a life raft in a storm!
they are displaying all the basic signs of cult membership: rigid binary thinking (pun maybe intended), refusal to address or even acknowledge alternate facts or reality, refusal to grant that anyone may have a good-faith disagreement, but instead hatred and rage toward all non-believers, and this weird form of apocalyptic hysteria, where either their beliefs and program are accepted unconditionally or else genocide or some other disaster is inevitable.
colin is a brave and smart man, but (as im sure he knows) people cannot be reasoned out of things they weren't reasoned into in the first place, and trying to have a constructive conversation w a cult member is as futile as trying to have one w an infant.
Apparently the protesters were so afraid of exposure to your ideas that they couldn't even allow themselves a moment of curiosity about them. Their need to insulate themselves from everything except simplistic, rigidly embraced slogans suggests that the protesters feel unable to defend their beliefs, even to themselves. This is a realistic position, considering how untenable their beliefs are. Beyond that, however, these individuals present themselves as "existentially threatened" by exposure to ideas that differ from the dogmas they have been taught. Such a sense of fragility they must have, to make them cling to a crackpot idea as if it were a life raft in a storm!
they are displaying all the basic signs of cult membership: rigid binary thinking (pun maybe intended), refusal to address or even acknowledge alternate facts or reality, refusal to grant that anyone may have a good-faith disagreement, but instead hatred and rage toward all non-believers, and this weird form of apocalyptic hysteria, where either their beliefs and program are accepted unconditionally or else genocide or some other disaster is inevitable.
colin is a brave and smart man, but (as im sure he knows) people cannot be reasoned out of things they weren't reasoned into in the first place, and trying to have a constructive conversation w a cult member is as futile as trying to have one w an infant.
Reminds me of the enviromental fanaticism on global warming.
John McWhorter has a similar take on the anti-racism crowd.
True believers all.
Thank you for making my point.
Most fanatics are poster children for the Dunning-Kruger effect.
IIRC your punishmnet for climate apostasy was that used by ISIS.
Not very enlightened!
I totally agree! I am trying to focus on the people who don't yet know they are in a cult, and even those are difficult to work with.
hey good luck, i guess change happens one brain at a time ;)