These are questions which I think we must all challenge ourselves - and others - to find answers to. I’m not known for being unerringly polite. OTOH, I’m very rarely deliberately rude. I stray on the side of being polite, but never to the point of compromising being to the point and stating in plain language what is on my mind, or stating facts. I’m not averse to responding impolitely or sarcastically when aggressively and unjustly (in my opinion) challenged. That riles some people. Am I getting it wrong? Should I be ineffably polite in order to promote constructive discourse? Gurwinder on Notes believes so:
This is more art than science, (I mean the legacy definition of 'art' and 'science', not their current usage). That said, a concise mocking can rattle around in the minds of those inclined to shallow reflection.
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I agree that it is impossible to argue with “The Powers That Be” (TPTB). My last three emails to three separate politicians elicited two no replies and one reply so bland as to be an insult.
Reiner Fuellmich was spot on with his verdict than Covid was a heinous, globally coordinated “plandemic” aimed at crushing and digitally shackling the entire population. Most of the establishment including 99% of our politicians back TPTB, either because they are bad in that they are fully aware (e.g. groomed by the WEF) of the evil that is being inflicted on the people, or they are mad, i.e. just stupid useful idiots who chose to go with the flow.
The only hope is to raise public awareness of what is going on and somehow vote all the bad/mad current politicians out of office. That’s an uphill battle as most political pundits seem unaware of the evil being perpetrated by the mainstream parties, e.g. in this parochial (and quite amusing if you are anti-SNP) review of Scottish politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYNDAOPebAs
Yes, when one presents study after testimony after study only to be told that it's all fake and "misinformation" you can only conclude that these people are wilfully stupid and hence deserve to be insulted.
I think you are correct. The time for politeness is over..especially when dealing with evil. I too stray on the side of politeness, but the trick is knowing how to respond to the idiocies that keep getting voiced by our fellow humans about climate and covid. I can no longer engage with some...they I think have lost their minds and no longer know how to be civil or open to new information.
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The problem with virtue signaling politeness as a virtue is that true politeness has far less to do with outward expressions in a complex society in which people politely knife each other's throats for sport and profit. Anyone who doesn't get that by adulthood is not very bright. Anyone who does get it, but pretends not to, has accepted the sociopathic, Molochian paradigm.
There is a reason that people who work for power agencies, corporations, and the mafia wear suits so predictably that they're called "suits". It's to distract from their lack of respectable morals.
The irony is, we now have the supposed executive non-conformists who have rejected the "suits" culture to embrace jeans and T-shirts, but they're still just signalling virtue and they're still as devoid of morals as their less 'progressive' forebears.
Yeah, the "I'm CEO, bitch, check out my hoodie uniform" seems like a candied handshake with degenerate culture. I'm not dissing hoodies necessarily, but I think you get what I mean. It's all a feature, not a bug.
This is more art than science, (I mean the legacy definition of 'art' and 'science', not their current usage). That said, a concise mocking can rattle around in the minds of those inclined to shallow reflection.
I agree that it is impossible to argue with “The Powers That Be” (TPTB). My last three emails to three separate politicians elicited two no replies and one reply so bland as to be an insult.
Reiner Fuellmich was spot on with his verdict than Covid was a heinous, globally coordinated “plandemic” aimed at crushing and digitally shackling the entire population. Most of the establishment including 99% of our politicians back TPTB, either because they are bad in that they are fully aware (e.g. groomed by the WEF) of the evil that is being inflicted on the people, or they are mad, i.e. just stupid useful idiots who chose to go with the flow.
Andrew Bridgen is doing a great job showing up our bad/mad politicians who empty the House of Commons chamber whenever he gets up to speak on Covid vaccine injuries or the WHO pandemic treaty and IHRs. At least the video evidence and Hansard get published. It’s so sad that he is practically a lone voice. Germany has Christine Anderson: https://www.theepochtimes.com/christine-anderson-from-15-minute-cities-to-climate-lockdowns-the-onslaught-of-digital-tyranny_5214622.html.
He is also showing up how the Covid response was obviously globally coordinated, with the same “cock-ups” perpetrated all round the world, e.g. in this interview by Dr John Campbell: https://twitter.com/JeffreyPeel/status/1652331296901693442?t=-1l25bv06WDmzPhXlKm9yA&s=19. He doesn’t quite get to the Fuellmich conclusion of pure evil.
The only hope is to raise public awareness of what is going on and somehow vote all the bad/mad current politicians out of office. That’s an uphill battle as most political pundits seem unaware of the evil being perpetrated by the mainstream parties, e.g. in this parochial (and quite amusing if you are anti-SNP) review of Scottish politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYNDAOPebAs
Spot on Douglas.
Yes, when one presents study after testimony after study only to be told that it's all fake and "misinformation" you can only conclude that these people are wilfully stupid and hence deserve to be insulted.
I think you are correct. The time for politeness is over..especially when dealing with evil. I too stray on the side of politeness, but the trick is knowing how to respond to the idiocies that keep getting voiced by our fellow humans about climate and covid. I can no longer engage with some...they I think have lost their minds and no longer know how to be civil or open to new information.
The problem with virtue signaling politeness as a virtue is that true politeness has far less to do with outward expressions in a complex society in which people politely knife each other's throats for sport and profit. Anyone who doesn't get that by adulthood is not very bright. Anyone who does get it, but pretends not to, has accepted the sociopathic, Molochian paradigm.
There is a reason that people who work for power agencies, corporations, and the mafia wear suits so predictably that they're called "suits". It's to distract from their lack of respectable morals.
The irony is, we now have the supposed executive non-conformists who have rejected the "suits" culture to embrace jeans and T-shirts, but they're still just signalling virtue and they're still as devoid of morals as their less 'progressive' forebears.
Meet your new overlords...
Yeah, the "I'm CEO, bitch, check out my hoodie uniform" seems like a candied handshake with degenerate culture. I'm not dissing hoodies necessarily, but I think you get what I mean. It's all a feature, not a bug.
Where I come from - the Yorkshire Dales - we are more likely to call a spade a bloody shovel!