Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Irrationality I Robert Greene" video.

  1. "The virus is not as dangerous as the media reports." You must have a source for your data. We can rationally discuss whether the mitigation measures being pushed make sense, without making conspirators out of those who have a different view. That is not pushing conspiracy.
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  2. Thank you for reading Thucydides to us.
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  3. If people feel entitled to let their emotions run wild, and consider self-control an unfair imposition and self-denial, then that's what happens. But I think this can change. I think it changes all the time, in fact.
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  4. This comment is worse than a parody. It reflects only your own thoughts, it says nothing good or bad, right or wrong, about Robert Greene. You could have posted it anywhere, in response to any serious talk you could find.
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  5. Sure we can prove you wrong: he argues against making premature decisions, very explicitly. He talks about the necessity to reevaluate, reassess, step back and contemplate new facts, about the need for an open mind and patience, and to be fearless in facing facts. His analysis of the most popular conspiracy theories is exactly right: consider that if certain elites have been either lying to us, or acting against our interests, like they often do, the conspiracy theories are their perfect cover. They can blame all criticism of them on the influence of the most unhinged conspiracy theorists. Then they don't need to worry about confronting the real criticism.
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  6.  @ronweber4508  Um, I'm not sure who his followers are. I'm not. I know he has neoliberal tendencies, and that he has made the wrong call many times. I find some things he writes to be among the best high-brow entertainment found anywhere, and he definitely has one thing right: don't get mired in self-help pablum, ever. It is neither realistic nor good for you. Read actual biographies of actual brilliant, accomplished people, and see what a hot mess their lives were. But see what they did, and how they did it, in spite of everything. Anyway, when I open a standard book on "creativity," and it puts Jobs or Gates in the same chapter (sometimes in the same sentence) as Shakespeare or Einstein, I already know I'm reading a POS. This video tells us Greene's thoughts on the New Irrationality. He's right, as far as it goes. I don't see him trying to snow people, or close off very necessary and legitimate debate. I have a LOT of questions about every aspect of the pandemic, and I am not so naive not to realize that I need to be careful how I word them and to whom I pose them. BTW, an interesting aside: I follow news in French, too, and in France, it is the (far) leftists who are raising questions and insisting on open debates; they are raising very questions and objections that will get you smeared as a "fascist conspiracy theorist" here. F I G U R E S.
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  7. Libraries in my town have lots of copies . . . Hope yours do.
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