Comments on: Question authority, revisited

By: Mary Catelli

Mary Catelli — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:33:50 +0000

Most of them were simply parroting it as the party line, even then. They didn’t even think about it. Good old doublethink.

By: David+Foster

David+Foster — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:51:32 +0000

I’m remembering some lines from Eric Andersen:

She’s a broken promise keeper, wanting so bad to believe
In something that would need her much, that could lead her fearlessly
Even if it to were a prison dark, she’d give away the keys
It if simply took her by the hand and promised not to leave

By: CT Ginger

CT Ginger — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:37:55 +0000

Question authority but carefully consider the answer you get

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:16:36 +0000

Here’s a post by someone who was once in what she now recognizes as a cult,
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I suspect the outfit she’s referring to is Regnum Christi. I used to correspond online with a Catholic traditionalist who’d crossed paths with Regnum Christi ca. 1999. He had nothing kind to say about it.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:13:47 +0000

David+Foster

Experts disagree all the time. See darwinian gradualism versus punctuated equilibrium. Evolution by creeps versus evolution by jerks.
But that, and the radar issue mentioned, are not public arguments with one side or the other picking one they like and christening it “expert”.
You should (not) listen to the rivet-counters on military blogs. Experts in minutia.
But none of those give their adherents reason to take Aubrey’s SUV away from him. Or make him take shots. Or learn to say, “Her skirt was too short,” once the background of a local rapist becomes known.

By: David+Foster

David+Foster — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:26:01 +0000

Richard Aubrey…”How does a liberal know who’s an expert? What if those whose objective metrics in background–degrees, experience, so forth–disagree?”

An interesting case of disagreeing experts: the pre-WWII secret British debate about air defense technologies: Radar Wars

https://ricochet.com/834816/radar-wars-a-case-study-in-expertise-and-influence/

By: David+Foster

David+Foster — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:22:36 +0000

Here’s a post by someone who was once in what she now recognizes as a cult, and sees a lot of parallelism with the behavior of many Democrats:

https://x.com/WindDustStars/status/1828808053963264018

By: Cicero

Cicero — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:46:18 +0000

The American Republic is on the edge of a precipice, looking down at its possible doom, while the Left comes up behind to push it over.

Democrats are authoritarians and must be put down, never elected to rule.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:48:04 +0000

How does a liberal know who’s an expert? What if those whose objective metrics in background–degrees, experience, so forth–disagree? How does the liberal pick which expert/experts to believe?

Back to being a liberal; which expert supports the moral equivalent of war; taxing–other people, making other people do stupid stuff, restricting other people’s individual freedom? That’s the expert. Hence the animus toward objectively expert people decrying climate alarmism.

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:53:35 +0000

Huxley,
It’s pretty simple.If left or right have authority then it’s fantastic! If they don’t have it it’s terrible. It’s power.