I can remember cleaving to progressive politics as the one true way to be a compassionate human in the world. Now I can see the lie in that, even setting aside the increased nihilism and tribalism. Inserting that tribalism back in, I can understand how most people can’t give up cleaving to these ideas, whether for loss of support or sense of belonging, or of their own self-concept around being a compassionate human.
My own growth included remediating myself away from nonsensical economic ideas (because they felt good in the heart somehow didn’t make them true), and recognizing how, in my concern for compassion and healing oppression in the world, I was being manipulated into giving up freedom and autonomy not only for myself but for the very vulnerable people I thought I held compassion for.
"Dutiful tribal signaling" is what Allen is doing, and not even adroitly enough to leave any doubt. Of course, that is a relatively tame or anodyne description of the business; there are others.
Well, Franklin, I'm afraid you were induced to waste your time on Allen by giving too much benefit of the doubt, something I rarely do by now. True, you made nice lemonade from the lemon, but the concomitant dreariness one must still contemplate is increasingly depressing, not to say repellent. It's not just that the guy is indigestible, but that he sounds exceedingly proud of it, which is obnoxious.
I can remember cleaving to progressive politics as the one true way to be a compassionate human in the world. Now I can see the lie in that, even setting aside the increased nihilism and tribalism. Inserting that tribalism back in, I can understand how most people can’t give up cleaving to these ideas, whether for loss of support or sense of belonging, or of their own self-concept around being a compassionate human.
My own growth included remediating myself away from nonsensical economic ideas (because they felt good in the heart somehow didn’t make them true), and recognizing how, in my concern for compassion and healing oppression in the world, I was being manipulated into giving up freedom and autonomy not only for myself but for the very vulnerable people I thought I held compassion for.
"Dutiful tribal signaling" is what Allen is doing, and not even adroitly enough to leave any doubt. Of course, that is a relatively tame or anodyne description of the business; there are others.
Well, Franklin, I'm afraid you were induced to waste your time on Allen by giving too much benefit of the doubt, something I rarely do by now. True, you made nice lemonade from the lemon, but the concomitant dreariness one must still contemplate is increasingly depressing, not to say repellent. It's not just that the guy is indigestible, but that he sounds exceedingly proud of it, which is obnoxious.
No time wasted. I'm here to provide an alternative commentary.
Oh, it's alternative, alright, even though it should be perfectly normal and seen as such.