Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Perilous State of the University: Jonathan Haidt \u0026 Jordan B Peterson" video.

  1. It only became bad when the wrong person (Trump) said the same thing. Now that he HAS said it, it's obviously HITLER!!!
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  2. ReaverXXI: I think Germany is farther down the road of identity politics than the U.S. Luckily for us, our Constitution sets a higher threshold for laws infringing on free speech. Folks are surely d to circumvent (or ignore) the Law, but there's still a lot of resistance to what's going on, unchecked, in parliamentary countries in Europe. Also, the election of Donald Trump means the packing of the courts by "because this is how I feel and to hell with your objective facts and the law" judges aren't getting appointed. The courts are America's achilles heel. If you can pack them with fellow travelers, the law is what they say it is.
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  3. Robin Barlett: You're describing the institution of Thought Police! Oh, and your sister is absolutely wasting her money and harming society by choosing gender studies, which is misguided ideology masquerading as science. It's a shame, because I think there's a lot to be learned about the spectrum of humanity. It's just utterly stupid when you go from this important area of bio research to making it a crime when you use the wrong pronoun with somebody.
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  4. Meh. In a meritocracy, people who are educated and work their asses off tend to show up in all walks of life, concentrated at the top. Both education and work ethic run deep in Jewish culture, whether they be practicing religionists or not. Next question.
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  5. LOL! You got so many kudos, I needed to screw up my eyes and zero-in your picture. Caught one of your soliloquies some months ago, so I caught 3 or 4, because you were so articulate and on-the-mark. Kudos!
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  6. btdtpro: That's a wonderful idea.
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  7. ReaverXXI: You do all the 2-AM ranting you want.
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  8. Yes, RanEncounter. This is why the left's constant state of "We're in crisis and government must act!" solutions always fail and create tidal effects nobody notices 'til the basement's flooded. Sadly, no one is questioning the solutions. Instead, they call those who say "Maybe government isn't the solution" a racist, and scream for more money for the same failed policies.
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  9. Yeah, Steeltrap. I think the guy talking about quick fixes was making a point about self-reliance versus victim mentality. If anybody's guilty of quick-fix mentality, it's the left, who e that throwing money taken by force from one group and given to another group, is only being practical. "Conservatives," generally speaking, think longer term, and (some of us) SEE the unintended consequences and self-defeating nature of cookie-cutter solutions offered by a pretty simple-minded leftist formula of fairness. Loss of prosperity is unfair to EVERYone.
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  10. Steeltrap: I think the conservative guy was making a point about self-reliance, as opposed to victim-mentality subservience to the State. And most situations are best solved by the people affected, than by self-interested civil servants prescribing one-size-fits-all remedies for strangers.
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  11. Well-put, Voin. The rule set grows without pause. Our brains are constant. We are overwhelmed. We are ALL breaking some rule, law or regulation, without even knowing some asshole thought there needed to be a rule!
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  12. I doubt most of 'em are trying to destabilize society. But their acts and attitudes are no less destructive, whatever their intention.
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  13. The INSTANT a big corporation makes a sweetheart deal with government for unfair advantage, that's CRONY capitalism, the OPPOSITE of free market capitalism. It's fascist at its core, which in spite of current parlance is a creature of the modern LEFT. MOST big-wigs are big-government shills. They cry all the way to the bank every time there's a government clamp-down or new set of regs, because THEY are big enough to survive the demands of compliance, when they're not the assholes writing the regs in the first place. Progressives are the WORST enablers of fascism, and the loudest opposers. It's ironic.
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  14. I think cooperating is great, if it's voluntary. I think cooperating sucks when there's not a single individual in the collective who's worth a damn, and collectivism is in direct opposition to anybody being worth a damn!
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  15. Right, left, conservative, liberal. None of these terms have much meaning. Most of the thoughtful people on the so-called right are classical liberals. We want our liberties, and we don't want the monarchy to sneak in the back door with offers of Free Stuff.
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  16. As our society evolves, I can see having children younger, and then doing more career stuff, later. Instead of college, learn a trade (which can be done in high school), get a good-paying job. Then go to school, after you know a little something about the world, and you want to move on from the one trade. It's huge to have your kids raised up by the time you're 40-ish. Anyway, I can see this as a good lifestyle for a lot of people, with some making enough $$$ off their trade to retire a lot earlier than a guy who went straight from high school to college and took 4 or more years to graduate, assuming they graduated. I went the academic route, and I was upwards of 40 before I made enough money to reasonably support a family. But if I'd decided to be an electrician, I'd've been good to go by or before age 20, if I took some vo-tech.
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  17. That's an interesting correlation but I'm not sure inflation is causal. I think technology and culture would be taking us in that direction, with or without inflation. But I TOTALLY agree that inflation is how government steals money from people and makes it harder and harder to plan a retirement. If we KNEW that our money would be worth as much in 20 years as it is, today, maybe more of us would be retiring, younger. You know what an ounce of gold would buy in 100 BCE? A fine suit of clothes, from head to toe. You know what it'll buy, today? A fine set of clothes, from head to toe.
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  18. Religion isn't a social construct so much as something we are wired for. Just the nature of consciousness and unanswerable questions. Constructing a framework in which our existence has meaning beyond eating, shitting and dying is very good for very many people, even though it's rooted mostly in fabrication.
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  19. Awesome, scran. I do think that there's something biological underlying our apparent need for - and apparent benefits of - religion, else religion would not exist. For instance, I know I wouldn't smoke and I'd probably eat better and on a more regular schedule, with a wife and kids, if I were orthodox American protestant-type (or Muslim, which also places high value on family (recruits)). As it is, I muddle through, childless, as a skeptic/agnostic. I can definitely see there being some kind of "religion gene," and its being pretty universally expressed, across our species. That hunter who put absolute belief in his god to guide his arm probably throws a better spear. Yanno?
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  20. TofeldianSage: All I remember from the Letters to Pope Gregory was that he won a lot more converts when he stopped proselytizing and just lived like a kind and generous rich man. He made his life an example others wanted to experience for themselves, and THAT was his hook. Heh. I read The Canterbury Tales and all I come away with is the Knight's Tale and the yeoman, because it relates to the long bow by commoners obliterating armored knights on the battlefield.
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  21. Kytsche: I like your take. Mine's a little different on what's driving things, and why Europe is in such a state. I don't think they took their cue from US on the direction they decided to take. I think they're ahead of us on the path to meltdown, but not tbecause they're somehow trying to please our elites. Still, good historical perspective on the untoward military presence and continued footing-of-the-bill for security matters by the U.S. As you surely know, our presence in Europe was because we were the only thing standing between the Soviets and the English Channel on the continent at the end of WW II! And from then on, there was ALWAYS some urgency necessitating our continued presence. I think European countries haven't been paying their own security bills for decades, and that probably livened their step on the redistributionist, nanny government road. And there's nothing wrong with government-run schools, unless you don't like what the government thinks ought to be taught. And there's nothing wrong with helping the poor, with government help, unless it creates a permanent underclass who will always vote for the continuation and expansion of those programs out of their own self interest. Throw enough guilty white people on top of that pile and you've got a big-government coalition, world without end. Unless Atlas shrugs before things get too far down the road, and things come to blows.
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  22. There's my 1:30 a.m. response to your 2:00 a.m. drivel. My drivel, however, is much better than your drivel. So I win. Pleasure hearing from you and openin' up a little.
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  23. Yes. Audio.
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  24. Meh. Colleges and universities aren't going away, but I do expect some die-back. They are, at root, all about survival, and surviving/navigating the insanity coming down from government is what put 'em in this ridiculous pickle. RIGHT down the line, college administrators will always seek to protect their gravy train, cover their asses, and expand their domains. Rolling over for wacked-out social justice warriors is more about cowardice and survival than anything else, with a few wacked-out-administrator exceptions. When enrollments drop in Berkeley, but most of all, when ENDOWMENTS drop, they'll come to Jesus, so to speak.
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