Cognitive dissonance [https://infogalactic.com/info/Cognitive_dissonance] is sometimes described as “the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values.” I’m not going to claim I’ve never been in that position, but one legacy of my grandparents is the ongoing quest for something like truth, and testing what I believe – checking my assumptions and what Eric Raymond would refer to as “killing the buddha…
First of all, love the shirt [https://www.vistacontra.com/collections/frontpage/products/better-dead-than-red] . “Better dead than red” indeed. And an aside on the whole NFL thing [http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/al-sharpton-guest-trump-wants-us-kneeling-cotton-fields-again] … > “And, you know, when I think about his whole thing is when was Amer-, make America great again. Now we see that 1817 is more likely when he’s thinking about America being great. As opposed to us kneeling on behalf of…
I’ve been cleaning up old posts now that I’m using WordPress, mostly in order to catch misformatting between the css at google and here that causes weird issues like text flowing through various vids. It’s also resulted in me finding a few posts worth revisiting, where there’s a little more to add. First, in the light of McCain voting, again, to shut down repealing Obamacare with that grin of his, and the republican establishment in general proving themselves opportunistic liars regarding their…
I’d been inclined to skip this entire topic but the post by Peter Grant [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2017/09/its-not-nfl-versus-president-trump-its.html] is well worth reading. A critical point from it: > I think there are a great many Americans who do understand the meaning of our flag and our national anthem. To see NFL players deliberately disrespecting that, putting identity politics over nation, is not just upsetting to us – it’s flat-out disgusting. If they do not respect…
In a post titled “One Has to Ask [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2017/09/one-has-to-ask.html]” Peter Grant looks at the current results of the drug war. > given the abysmal failure of the War On Drugs: is it time to just let this stuff come in, and allow the drug addiction problem to solve itself through natural selection? After all, drugs – particularly ‘hard’ drugs – are today much easier to find, and far more affordable, than they were at the start of the War On Drugs in 1971.…