I was tempted to write an analysis of his GSB Touchy-Feely experience in terms of your sociopaths/clueless/losers framework, but decided that explaining what was actually going on would get too many people too upset.
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The author is clearly smart enough to comment on sjw culture, but chose not to, so it made me suspect he was playing up the naive-foreigner act a little too much for effect, like Poirot does in his mysteries. Still, it was funny :)
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Yup, definitely
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What’s masterful is that he’s equally pouring scorn on financial industry psychopathy and SJW idiocy, while being sufficiently indirect that a casual reader could miss either or both
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… actually, when SJW is done at that level, it’s preference falsification, not idiocy. Which the psychopaths in the class undoubtedly understood; only a few clueless students would have missed the point and imagined it was sincere.
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ideological climate that rewards sociopathic lying and requires, at minimum, premeditated dissimulation from everyone in the conversation.
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… and the actual point of the course is to teach you how to do that. I would guess that the professor was hired to be clueless (in
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I promised myself that I would not become cynical ever again, no matter how bad things seem. I promised myself that I would assume that people's motivations were sincere, at least from their own point of view. Is this wrong?
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I have always striven to be sincere but I have also been a committed advocate for SJ in the past. I am still not sure if I was merely unreflective or if the party line moved at some point without me noticing.
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I appreciate your honesty. I think the party line has moved very far in the direction of authoritarianism and meanness. I haven't given up on the notion of trying to make the world a better place for needy people but the current tone and tactics of the movement are unacceptable.
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I think the sociopaths moved in, yes. I was likely in the geek/mop dynamic.
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I count myself lucky I had a dissociative experience strong enough to give me room to reflect on things or else I might have been sucked along by the momentum right into authoritarianism.
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