tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post9197432488611704658..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Good That Comes From GossipStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-36245074498591762612014-01-31T20:18:04.589-08:002014-01-31T20:18:04.589-08:00It is always remarkable when such massive majoriti...It is always remarkable when such massive majorities of social scientists look at human beings as a gaggle of irrational, amoral, horrid morons. Usually it is that everyone else is irrational, but they (the social scientists and others of analytical intellect) are beyond being tempted by such low, shallow diversions. They have real work to do, which is criticize human behavior with their favorite (fellow analytical) friends. At least the Muppets' Statler & Waldorf sat in the balcony and provided entertainment value!<br /><br />So yes, exemptions from criticism are par for the course, and hence we get academics, intellectuals and journalists... those with the power of the pen, the scientist's lab coat, and the self-awareness of a squid. Oh, and then we get their suggested social "remedies," which they typically exempt themselves from, or wield despotic power to unilaterally impose their value system (or lack thereof).<br /><br />Gossip is a human universal. It is present in every human society, and any that have occurred since man became conscious... when he realized others were different, and felt a need to criticize their behaviors and motivations. Yet this has two sides... It may make him feel smug and self-righteous on an individual level, but may simultaneously provide the benefits of social cohesion on a collective, communal level. Nature creates nothing in vain. Nor does God.<br /><br />As William F. Buckley said, "I had much more fun criticizing than praising."<br /><br />Alas, the human condition. Yet those who claim we have evolved as an improvement to the ape cannot recognize that many of these "undesirable" quirks may be social adaptations that could help with individual and community survival. What the modern Left cannot reconcile is their romantic notion that a human being should we free to do whatever he chooses, while simultaneously demanding that we collectivize the financing of remedies for such antisocial behavior. <br /><br />Nuts, says I.<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com