That's a really interesting clip for a few reasons.
One of the things I was thinking about yesterday was the idea that we need more feminine, more caring, more nurturing in certain marginalized communities. Thing is, those communities are almost exclusively raised by women and I was thinking it isn't clear at all the answer to the problems in a community exclusively raised by women is more women. The point that political correctness comes more from women and that's one of the few things you can predict solely by gender sort of leads to that too.
As for the main point you talked about, that also explains the highly religious nature of wokeness. Wokeness ends up being an example of idiocracy. "We just never say mean things, that way nobody gets hurt" is similar to "but we watered the plants with brawndo. It has what plants crave!" No, that's not true at all but if you don't have the cognitive machinery to make decisions in a complex world yourself, then you might make use of heuristics set up by someone else you percieve to be better suited to do the thinking for you.
Of course, broad heuristics are never going to be as good as a properly defined coherent viewpoint.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
That's a really interesting clip for a few reasons.
One of the things I was thinking about yesterday was the idea that we need more feminine, more caring, more nurturing in certain marginalized communities. Thing is, those communities are almost exclusively raised by women and I was thinking it isn't clear at all the answer to the problems in a community exclusively raised by women is more women. The point that political correctness comes more from women and that's one of the few things you can predict solely by gender sort of leads to that too.
As for the main point you talked about, that also explains the highly religious nature of wokeness. Wokeness ends up being an example of idiocracy. "We just never say mean things, that way nobody gets hurt" is similar to "but we watered the plants with brawndo. It has what plants crave!" No, that's not true at all but if you don't have the cognitive machinery to make decisions in a complex world yourself, then you might make use of heuristics set up by someone else you percieve to be better suited to do the thinking for you.
Of course, broad heuristics are never going to be as good as a properly defined coherent viewpoint.