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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: personal stories
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:49:19 -0300
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:

> On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>
>>> Many good hearted leftists are leftists because they cannot see or
>>> do not think
>>> about second order, or third order, or N order effects. They get stuck at the
>>> immediate problem and do not think of how the consequences of their
>>> immediate,
>>> knee jerk, solution will cause more pain down the line. This is sad. =(
>>
>> Quite right.  And there is the folly of rewarding A while hoping for B.
>>
>>  Kerr, Steven. ``On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B.''
>>  Academy of Management journal 18.4 (1975): 769-783.
>
> True!
>
>>> Then of course you have evil leftists who are fully aware of this, and
>>> are leftists due to political power gains.
>>
>> And there's the post-modernist movement, with their sheer nonsense and
>> confusion, that finds good reception in such groups---probably more so
>> than in others.
>
> It will destroy itself in time. Since they have abandoned objective
> truth, and built their ethos on being the most vulnerable group, they
> will go down in flames and in fighting, since nothing can be resolved
> without any kind of objective truth to ground discussions. Sadly it
> takes time.

It takes time.  Intelligence *always* prevails, directly or indirectly.