“so much of the American Right is actually driven by fear of change and paranoia”
Someone who writes this couldn’t pass an ideological Turing test, especially, and what comes across from that post, that his life operating assumption is that conservatives are just dumber than liberals.
I agree completely on the “if it ain’t broke” point. It seems to me that it’s always right to fix something if you can. The issue is rather one of prioritization. When does “fixing” something become a distraction from doing or fixing something else that’s more important or could be achieved with less effort.
Creating something is somehow a process of discovery in and of itself. By going through that process, it’s so much easier and better to start over and apply the lessons learned to a clean sheet of paper.
Back in the good old days, if the power went out, you lost whatever work you’d done on your computer since the last save. I had a college friend who accidentally kicked the power cord out of the wall when taking a congratulatory stretch after four hours working on a lab write up. Of course, she hadn’t saved it in quite a long time. (I was there. It was funny.) But also of course, she was able to re-construct it in a very short amount of time. And I suspect it was better the second time around.
"The religions in medieval times were a combination of ancestor worship and nature worship." This is the worst statement I've read this year. Did medieval people worshipped nature in Hagia Sofia and Notre Dame?
Torenberg is correct- the modern left looks exactly like a pagan religion, and probably is exactly what it looks like. The human sacrifices are probably not all that far into the future, though they probably won't start out with the removal of beating hearts.
“so much of the American Right is actually driven by fear of change and paranoia”
Someone who writes this couldn’t pass an ideological Turing test, especially, and what comes across from that post, that his life operating assumption is that conservatives are just dumber than liberals.
I agree completely on the “if it ain’t broke” point. It seems to me that it’s always right to fix something if you can. The issue is rather one of prioritization. When does “fixing” something become a distraction from doing or fixing something else that’s more important or could be achieved with less effort.
Creating something is somehow a process of discovery in and of itself. By going through that process, it’s so much easier and better to start over and apply the lessons learned to a clean sheet of paper.
Back in the good old days, if the power went out, you lost whatever work you’d done on your computer since the last save. I had a college friend who accidentally kicked the power cord out of the wall when taking a congratulatory stretch after four hours working on a lab write up. Of course, she hadn’t saved it in quite a long time. (I was there. It was funny.) But also of course, she was able to re-construct it in a very short amount of time. And I suspect it was better the second time around.
"The religions in medieval times were a combination of ancestor worship and nature worship." This is the worst statement I've read this year. Did medieval people worshipped nature in Hagia Sofia and Notre Dame?
Torenberg is correct- the modern left looks exactly like a pagan religion, and probably is exactly what it looks like. The human sacrifices are probably not all that far into the future, though they probably won't start out with the removal of beating hearts.