tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1115147218099747199..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Politics in the WorkplaceStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-52525093315212605722017-02-16T02:52:41.815-08:002017-02-16T02:52:41.815-08:00Stuart: It’s not so much the politics. It’s that p...Stuart: It’s not so much the politics. It’s that people do not know what to do with the information. Their minds have been deformed by the school system and the media… so all they know how to do is to emote. They do not process information; they look for hidden meanings and conspiracies. They do not want to see how the game is being played. They do not care to examine all sides of the question.<br /><br />This seems like a garbled analysis. Or perhaps this is an example of how men see women? Surely its women's problem that they emote, that they (mis)-teach in schools while men do real work? But now these uppity women have filled offices, rather than caring for children at home, so they're messing up all the men at work.<br /><br />I did hear an interesting dialogue yesterday, between Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, and (libertarian thinker?) Stefan Molyneux. Peterson's recent claim to fame was trashing the transexuals and 32 flavors of gender.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcEJr8h_yGM The Architecture of Belief | Jordan Peterson and Stefan Molyneux <br /><br />The two seemed to have quite a lot of agreement, and Molyneux largely let Peterson lead the conversation, with just chiming in on agreement along the way.<br /><br />One of Peterson's claims was that having more women in positions of power means society is getting warped by an unwise "material instinct" now being inflicted on society as women are having fewer children, and redirect this instinct to all of humanity, which leads to, among other things, refugee programs bent on compassion, without good sense to see how these traumatized and foreign cultured people can fit in and thrive (or flourish).<br /><br />Anyway, it would make sense that someone like Trump scares women silly, because he offers no deference at all. So it would seem like the world is under threat.<br /><br />OTOH, I admit I did have one conversation at work from a woman who was a Trump Supporter, using the standard lines that Trump wasn't her first choice, and she hated Hillary, and that we need to give Trump a chance, and it seems clear that she's not interested in objective facts or her own good sense to reject a scoundrel.<br /><br />But perhaps my efforts to "examine all sides of the question" is flawed as well, and I'm using "confirmation bias" as much as anyone. I see Trump as a menace, and pay attention to what he's doing wrong. Still I feel convinced if the Democrats were somehow suckered into electing a clown like Trump "Only I can fix it" I would be equally against him, and hope he's impeached as quickly as possible.<br /><br />I'm just not sure if objective analysis is possible with Trump, except for the fact we have to wait until there is sufficient objective harm to support his objective impeachment hearing.<br /><br />No one with a brain should see Trump as anything but a conman. Being rich isn't a sign of wisdom and good judgment, but a sign of someone who was born on third base, and who had lots of chances to fail, and succeeded despite himself, discovering that many people are not interested in truth, but the best lies money can buy.<br /><br />Trump's only virtue that I can see is that he believes in himself, and that confidence means he's willing to break things just to see how they work, and now we can let him try to break as many things as we can bear, just to see what happens.<br /><br />And perhaps we'll come close to nuclear war again, and when we narrowly avoid it, we'll decide giving one man the power to kill millions on his bad day is a bad idea. And maybe we'll notice its hypocritical to complain mad men in other countries shouldn't have nukes we we show such poor judgment in our leader.<br /><br />A dangerous game, but we've been playing this game since before I was born, and maybe we can end the (MAD) game before I die? <br /><br />And I being melodramatic, just emoting? I'll believe that as soon as I imagine a scenario that I'd launch nuclear weapons if I was president. <br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-80222221196785895702017-02-15T20:06:38.534-08:002017-02-15T20:06:38.534-08:00"I defy anyone to tell me what a “whole self”..."I defy anyone to tell me what a “whole self” is? You can make like philosopher David Hume and rummage around in your mind searching for your whole self. If you do you will like Hume discover that there is no such thing."<br /><br />Really? Well, someone then better tell my first grade teacher, who told me to put it all in, put it all out, then shake it all about. <br /><br />That's what it's all about!Hokey Pokeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-82963253776046775972017-02-15T16:27:26.399-08:002017-02-15T16:27:26.399-08:00What if the unbalanced are evaluating balance, and...What if the unbalanced are evaluating balance, and calling for balance?<br /><br />What if the insane are evaluating insanity, and calling for sanity?<br /><br />People get upset about lots of things. You may get rear-ended on your way to work, your kid is in detention, your marriage is in shambles, your uncle just got arrested, and your grandmother is dying. That's life. And you can't help but bring your life to work. You're a human being. Everyone is there to share in your experience. <br /><br />Right? <br /><br />Wrong!<br /><br />Yes, you are a human being. But work is for work. Work is work. Work is not therapy. The workplace may be a community, but it's not a recruiting ground. It's not a team locker room looking for some rah-rah cause. People are there to work. <br /><br />The REAL problem is that Leftists don't draw a distinction between politics and anything. Work or anything else!<br /><br />You bringing your political hobby to work and foisting it on everyone else is the equivalent of bringing your model rocket, collector coins or reality TV hobby/fetish to work... and imposing it on others by repetition, noise or just plain whining that no one is paying attention to you. All this claiming to be promoting democracy and free speech, while shutting down discussion. It's insane. <br /><br />We have lunatic Democrats babbling about Russians living under our beds, in our voting machines, and in our phones. When Democrat representatives promulgate these looney thoughts to their base from official government podiums, in front of news media, it greenlights those same political activists to bring it into their lives and those they live with. That includes the workplace. At a fevered pitch. <br /><br />That's where we are. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-43915834171044939692017-02-15T10:33:19.277-08:002017-02-15T10:33:19.277-08:00I suspect it's because many think Trump will l...I suspect it's because many think Trump will lower taxes on business, and remove administrative regulations hampering business.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-32079641221962455212017-02-15T09:56:19.290-08:002017-02-15T09:56:19.290-08:00Politics in the workplace is not the problem. My c...Politics in the workplace is not the problem. My career spanned 35 years and there was never a problem with politics (excepting organizational politics, of course), and I worked with people from all political persuasions, right to left.<br /><br />The problem in the workplace is Proglodyte SJWs whose default political mode is point-and-shreik. And that's not just a workplace problem. SJWs create toxic political problems wherever they are.trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.com