Conservatives
cannot provide good leadership
Whenever I criticize the conservatives, the
conservatives react defensively and accuse me of being
a liberal, so before I start this section, which is
going to be critical of conservatives, I would like to
remind you that I do not like the Democrats, either.
Actually, the reason I don't want to spend much time
criticizing Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and some
of the other Democrats is because I am so disgusted
with them that I prefer to avoid looking into their
lives. I consider them to be appalling.
By comparison, the conservatives seem to be
normal, healthy humans, or, to be more precise, like
the humans of 20,000 years ago. Although I don't
believe conservatives should be in leadership
positions, I think they are fascinating to observe
because I think they can help us to understand our
ancestors and the animals. I think conservatives can
show how our prehistoric ancestors behaved, treated
each other, and dealt with life's problems.
The reason I say that conservatives are more like
prehistoric savages than modern humans is because of
the way they react to problems. As I mentioned,
animals have only two reactions to problems. They
either run away and hide, or they fight. As a group,
conservatives react to almost every problem either by
ignoring it, or fighting with it. They rarely show an
interest in researching the issue, discussing it, and
experimenting with possible solutions. This section of
my document will give you some examples of what I am
referring to. To begin, consider how the Republicans
who do not like Donald Trump are reacting to
him.
The RNC reacts
to Trump with fear
There are some Republicans who suspect that
Donald Trump is a liar and a fraud, and that he is
trying to hurt the Republican Party and help the
Democrats. However, it is important to note that they
are reacting to Trump with fear.
On 3 September 2015, the Republican National Committee
(RNC) asked each Republican candidate
to sign a loyalty
pledge to promise that he will not switch to
another political party, and that he "will endorse the
2016 Republican presidential nominee regardless of who
it is."
Why would the RNC care if Trump
switches to a different political party? And why would
they demand that he support the Republican candidate
"regardless of who it is"? Since the RNC
does not consider Trump to be a Republican, why are
they trying to force him to remain in the Republican
Party?
Would you put
pressure on somebody to remain a member of your
organization if you did not like or trust him? I would
have expected the Republicans to complain that Trump
is a liar and a fraud, and that he is not accepted as
a member of the Republican Party. So, why is the RNC
reacting to Trump by trying to force him to be a
Republican?
The reason is because they are worried that if Trump
is not nominated as the Republican candidate, he will
switch to some other party, and many of the
Republicans will vote for him rather than the
Republican candidate, and that in turn will help the
Democrat get elected. You may respond that this is a
valid concern, but it is not. It is animal
behavior. It is fear. Before I continue,
let me explain something about business activity and
athletics.
The competition in a free enterprise system is
constantly changing in unpredictable ways. Different
business executives react to the competition in
different manners. At one extreme are the businesses
that are operated by crime networks. From what little
I know of crime networks, they are not very tolerant
of competition. Crime networks are frequently caught
killing, blackmailing, bribing, and sabotaging their
competition. They are not friendly with their
competitors.
At the other extreme would be the business executives
who have no problem with competition. They observe
what their competitors are doing, and they try to make
their products better, or less expensive, or more
reliable. They compete in a fair and honest manner,
and the result is that their products improve over
time. They are capable of forming friendships with
their competitors. This type of businessman might be
unusual, but I have seen this personality among some
restaurant owners.
Most businessmen are between those two extremes. They
are tolerant of competition when their business is
doing fine, but when they are faced with difficult
competition, they will be tempted to cheat, or to beg
the government to impose tariffs, regulations,
licenses, or fees in an attempt to suppress their
competition. Some of them will form illegal alliances
with their competitors in order to help each other
suppress their other competitors.
We could describe the personality of the typical
businessman as, "When the pressure gets tough, the
typical businessman behaves more like an animal." This
was most noticeable when the American steel and
automobile industries were suffering from competition
from Japan. Rather than look for ways to improve their
businesses, they begged consumers to buy American
products, and they begged the government to reduce the
competition.
How would animals behave if they had enough
intelligence to become business executives? I suspect
that they would be even more abusive than the crime
networks. The reason I say this is that male animals
are completely intolerant of competition.
Male animals react defensively to any other animal
that competes with them, and some of them will even
behave defensively and aggressively towards juvenile
animals that do not display submissive facial
expressions. Animals are more arrogant and demanding
than the most psychotic gang leader or communist
dictator.
Now consider how these concepts apply to athletics. At
one extreme are the athletes who are intolerant of
competition. They try to bribe their judges, sabotage
their competition, or cheat in some other manner. They
prefer to compete with people that they know they can
beat. They do not want to help their
competitors develop their talents.
At the other extreme are the athletes who enjoy
competition. They use the competition as a way to
inspire themselves and learn new techniques. They do
not want to compete with people they can easily beat.
They consider such competitions to be worthless and
boring. They want to compete with athletes who have
equal or better skills. They are willing to help other
athletes develop their talents.
If animals were intelligent enough to play casual
games of golf purely for fun, would they play in an
honest manner? I suspect that animals would be more
interested in winning, more intolerant of losing, and
more abusive towards competitors than any human.
Furthermore, I suspect that an animal would choose to
compete with an animal that he believes he can easily
beat rather than with an animal that might beat him.
It is also important to note that male animals have no
desire to help other males develop their talents or
succeed in their attempts to rise in the hierarchy or
get females. Male animals regard one another as
threats and competitors, not as friends. The males
work together when they hunt, but they do that for
their own benefit. Each male wants to be the leader of
the group, and he will use violence and intimidation
to get to that position. They do not help one another
develop their talents because they are in competition
with each other.
If the people who dominate the Republican Party had
the personality of the best behaved athletes or
businessmen, then they would not fear competition.
Rather, they would welcome it. Instead of
being afraid of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton,
and the other candidates, they would look for a
candidate who is better than the competition, and they
would proudly present candidates to the nation.
Likewise, instead of being afraid of Donald Trump's
proposals, they should react like an athlete who uses
the competition to inspire him and become better. The
Republicans should analyze the policies that Trump is
proposing, and try to develop policies that are more
intelligent and more desirable. Instead of being
frightened of Trump, they should proudly present their
proposals to the nation. They should use the
competition to inspire them and learn something new.
However, the Republicans are not reacting to
Trump by looking for a candidate who can beat Trump,
and they are not analyzing Trump's proposals
and trying to develop proposals that are more
intelligent.
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Oaths of loyalty
should be joyous occasions.
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Instead, they are reacting with fear.
They are behaving like a primitive tribe that is
frightened that one of their members might split the
tribe into two pieces, and they believe they can stop
it from happening by making him sign an oath of
loyalty.
Our wedding ceremonies require the bride and groom to
swear an oath of loyalty to one another, but they are
doing those oaths with a joyous attitude, not an
attitude of fear, and not for the purpose of forcing a
person they dislike to remain with them.
Many organizations, such as the military and
government, also require some of their members to
swear an oath of loyalty, but those are ceremonial
formalities to welcome new members to the
organization. Those oaths of loyalty are not the
result of frightened officials who are
worried that they will lose their leadership position
to a competitor. Those oaths of loyalty are conducted
with a pleasant attitude, not an attitude of fear.
Republicans ought to be embarrassed that their
leadership demanded that Trump sign an oath of
loyalty. Furthermore, Trump is under no obligation to
follow that silly oath of loyalty, and I doubt if any
of his supporters would care if he disregards it.
Actually, he might gain even more support by
disregarding it because many people might interpret
such actions as showing independence and doing
what is best for America rather than being a typical,
submissive candidate who does what he is told.
The RNC is concerned about
themselves, not America
If the primary concern of the RNC was to
help America become better, then they would be looking
through the Republican membership to find a candidate
who is more desirable than Donald Trump and the other
candidates, and they would be looking for ways to
improve their proposals. However, they don't want to
do that. They want to promote the same candidates and
polices that they promoted in the past.
They are behaving like the steel and automobile
executives who were facing competition from Japan.
Instead of improving their businesses, those business
executives wanted to keep everything as it was, and so
they begged the government for tariffs and handouts.
Those executives were not interested in doing what was
best for their business or what was best for society.
They were concerned only with holding onto their
positions of leadership. They were behaving just like
stupid monkeys who were concerned that they were going
to be pushed down on the hierarchy, and they were
doing anything they could think of to eliminate their
competitors.
When people in leadership positions behave in this
manner, they are not providing leadership.
They are not providing analyses of our
problems, or guidance for our future. They are
behaving like frightened animals who are concerned
with eliminating their competitors so that they can
remain high in the hierarchy.
The members of the Republican Party ought to be
disgusted with their leadership for behaving in
this crude and worthless manner, but the Republican
members don't show any concern. They are not advocating
that their leaders be replaced with people who will
find a candidate who can beat Donald Trump.
Why don't the Republicans want to find a candidate who
can beat Donald Trump? Why don't they want to develop
policies that are better than what Trump is offering?
The reason is because the conservatives have a mind
that is very similar to that of animals or prehistoric
savages.
The conservatives are extremely arrogant, and they
believe they already have the best candidates and the
best policies. It is not possible to improve upon
perfection, so there is no way for them to improve
their policies or candidates. Their policy on abortion
is perfect; nothing needs to be changed about it.
Their policy on religion is flawless, and so is their
policy on immigration, Iraq, school systems, and
drugs. They never make mistakes, so there is nothing
for them to improve.
The Republicans are behaving like a prehistoric tribe
that is under attack by Donald Trump. Prehistoric
tribes were not interested in looking critically at
themselves or trying to improve their policies or
leadership. They believed they already had the best
leadership, and that their language was the best, and
that their culture was the best. When they were under
attack, they either fought or ran away. They did not
analyze themselves or look for ways to improve
themselves.
Conservatives are well
suited to a prehistoric era
Conservatives have mental characteristics
that would have been sensible in prehistoric times,
but which are detrimental in this modern world. For
example, their desire to follow traditions was
valuable in prehistoric times. This attitude was
especially useful in regards to foods because a person
who would follow traditions would eat the foods that
his parents and other ancestors had been eating, and
that caused him to avoid the foods that were poisonous
or indigestible. By comparison, the people who wanted
to experiment with foods would sometimes get sick or
die.
Likewise, the people who wanted to follow tradition
would be more productive when making tools and
clothing because they would follow techniques that had
been developed by their parents and ancestors. By
comparison, the people who wanted to experiment with
making tools and clothing would frequently make
mistakes, thereby wasting time and materials.
Animals and humans evolved with a very strong craving
to follow one another simply because this is a
necessary trait during prehistoric times. However,
this characteristic is causing trouble in the world
today because it causes people to resist experimenting
with solutions to modern problems.
The conservatives do not want to experiment with
changes, so when we put them into leadership
positions, nothing can possibly improve. Putting them
into leadership positions is like packing a
transmission so full of dirt that nothing can move.
Conservatives have trouble
looking critically at their leaders
Another emotional characteristic of
conservatives that was valuable in prehistoric times
but which causes trouble today is their craving to
follow their leaders without questioning them. Their
resistance to looking critically at their leaders made
sense in prehistoric times because their leaders
didn't do much of anything.
The leader of a prehistoric tribe would occasionally
make a decision about which direction the tribe should
wander to find food or water, but the members of
the tribe would not have benefited by
analyzing his decision and passing judgment on whether
they should follow him or select a new leader. They
would have been wasting their time, encouraging
rebellious attitudes, and bringing changes in
leadership that had no benefit. During prehistoric
times, a tribe would operate more efficiently when the
members gave blind obedience to their leader.
In this modern world, however, this characteristics
causes conservatives to give blind obedience to
leaders regardless of how horrible they might be. The
conservatives are willing to give obedience to Kings
and Queens, for example, even when everybody can see
that the King is insane, or that the King is only
seven years old.
In this modern world, we must have the ability to
analyze people in leadership positions and pass
judgment on whether they belong in that position. We
are fools to continue promoting monarchies, nepotism,
corruption, incompetence, and dishonesty in our
leadership.
In this modern era, leaders must be considered as employees
who are doing a job. Our leaders should not be
worshiped or given special treatment. They should have
to meet higher standards than other employees because
they have greater influence over our lives and our
future than people in other jobs.
Can conservatives see
their crude qualities?
I suspect that many conservatives would
respond that my accusation that they behave like
primitive savages is just a stupid insult rather than
an accurate description. I don't think they can see
their crude qualities. I think that from their point
of view, they are critical of their leadership, and
they are adventurous people who explore the unknown.
It might help you to understand this concept if you
first consider how it applies to exercise. If we
compare the people who exercise, we will find that
there are no distinct types of people. There is only a
continuous spectrum. At one extreme are the people who
exercise with so little effort that their pulse does
not increase by much, and they are capable of having
conversations while they exercise. At the other
extreme are people who exercise with such intensity
that at the end of the exercise their heart is
pounding, they are gasping for air, and they have
trouble standing up. However, if we were to ask the
people who exercise if they are putting effort into
it, we would find that everybody believes
that they are putting a lot of effort into exercising.
The same concept applies to our ability to look
critically at our leadership, and our desire to
explore the unknown. All humans have the same mental
characteristics. We all have an ability to look
critically at our leadership, and to explore the
unknown. However, we have these qualities at different
levels. If we could measure our qualities, we would
find that most people are "ordinary".
In regards to food, there are people at one extreme,
such as my mother, who consider themselves to be
adventurous when they make a trivial modification to a
food recipe, such as reducing the amount of sugar, or
substituting one spice with another. At the other
extreme are those of us who never follow recipes, but
who don't consider ourselves to be adventurous;
rather, we see ourselves as having fun with food and
life.
In regards to how we live our lives, at one extreme
are the people who are frightened about moving out of
their parent's home, and who consider themselves to be
courageous and adventurous when they do so. At the
other extreme are people who do not consider
themselves to be adventurous unless they are doing
something as extreme as traveling in a covered wagon
to uncharted, unexplored territory to start a new town
and a new life.
Because humans are arrogant, we resist doing serious
analysis of ourselves and serious comparisons of
ourselves to other people. We prefer to boast about
our wonderful qualities, and to find imperfections in
other people.
Everybody considers themselves to be brave explorers
of the unknown, and we all consider ourselves to be
setting high standards for our leadership. It can be
difficult for us to notice that what some people refer
to as "exploring the unknown" is what other people
describe as "remaining with the familiar", and what
some people describe as "being critical of their
leadership" is what others describe as "being
submissive".
In order to improve your life, you must be able to
look critically at yourself, notice how you compare to
other people, and figure out what your talents and
limitations are.
Conservatives do not care
about reality
Another of the characteristics of
conservatives that was acceptable in prehistoric times
but which is detrimental today is their tendency to
believe whatever they want to believe. They don't need
evidence to support their theories.
This characteristic would help them remain cheerful,
as I've mentioned in a previous document. For example,
when they were hungry and looking for food, they would
tell themselves and their children that they will soon
find food, and it will be delicious, and that they will
have more than they can eat. Their fantasies would
make them feel good and keep them motivated.
In this modern world, however, this characteristic is
detrimental. An example is the way people ignore the
evidence that Israel is responsible for the 9/11
attack, and that the Jews demolished the World Trade
Center buildings with explosives. That evidence is
incredibly obvious, but a significant percentage of
the population has no
trouble ignoring it.
If the conservatives were best adapted to this modern
world, then they would be more aware than other groups
of people that we have been lied to about 9/11, and
that the Jews demolished the towers with explosives.
The conservatives would dominate the effort to spread
this information and improve our leadership, media,
schools, businesses, and other organizations. The
conservatives would dominate the movement to eliminate
the Jewish propaganda in our schools and history
books.
However, from my own personal observations, the
conservatives put up the most resistance
spreading information about 9/11. They have a greater
tendency than other people to ignore reality
and believe whatever they please.
We can also see this characteristic with religion. The
conservatives seem to be more religious than any other
group of people. They believe it is because they are
the most intelligent and educated people, but I say it
is because their mind is more like a monkey or a
prehistoric savage than a modern human. Their mind has
a greater tendency to believe its own fantasies. They
have less of a concern about reality.
Recently the Mormon church provided a photograph
of the magic rock that
Joseph Smith used to translate a story that became the
basis of the Mormon religion. How can anybody in our
era believe something as stupid as a magic rock and
the Mormon religion?
If the conservatives were truly well adapted to this
modern world, then none of the Mormons would be
conservatives. However, the opposite seems to be true;
most Mormons seem to be conservatives.
From the point of view of the conservatives, religion
is an intelligent philosophy, and those of us who are
atheists - or the wrong religion - are misguided,
uneducated, or stupid. From the point of view of the
conservatives, it is the atheists who have idiotic
opinions that are not based on reality.
For example, if we tell a conservative that evolution
makes more sense than Adam and Eve, they will tell us
to prove that evolution makes sense. The
conservatives boast that they are open-minded
people who will listen to any opinion, and they ask us
to prove to them that evolution makes sense. When we
give them evidence, they listen to the evidence, and
so they are correct when they say they listen to a
difference of opinions. However, their mind dismisses
the evidence as nonsense, and they tell us that we
haven't proven anything.
We cannot have a sensible discussion with them because
they have a strong tendency to disregard whatever they
dislike, and believe whatever appeals to them. Their
mind is less concerned than ours with reality.
Conservatives are more
arrogant than the rest of us
One of the characteristics that Donald Trump
shares with conservatives is his arrogance.
All of us are arrogant, but if we could measure
arrogance, I think we would find that conservatives
are more arrogant than the rest of us.
Conservatives are frequently boasting about their
wonderful qualities, and criticizing other people.
They boast about their ability to listen to
alternative opinions, their education, their talents,
and how wonderful their leadership is. Conservatives
will even boast about qualities that most of us would
be embarrassed or ashamed of, such as being religious,
or for following recipes rather than creating our own
meals.
The conservatives will also boast about
accomplishments that they didn't even do. For example,
they give Ronald Reagan credit for the collapse of
communist Russia.
Some of the remarks that conservatives make about
Reagan and communism are so absurd that I find myself
checking the source to see if it is satire or
something serious. For example, read the first two
paragraphs of this
article. The title is:
The man who beat communism.
The first two paragraphs admit that President Reagan
was essentially an elderly idiot who would fall asleep
during the day, but the author gives Reagan credit for
the collapse of Soviet Russia, and for saving the
world. Is that article serious or satire?
I checked their "About us" page, and it seems to be
serious.
Communism failed in Russia because communism is an
unrealistic philosophy, and many of the Russian people
did not want it, and were actively fighting it.
There may have been some Americans who were helping
those Russians, but Americans were only assisting
the Russians with what they wanted to do. It was
the Russians who ended communism, not Ronald
Reagan. Only an abnormally arrogant American would
boast that Reagan is responsible for what those
Russian people did.
The extreme arrogance of the conservatives makes it
difficult for them to look critically at themselves or
favorably at other people. They are always finding
faults in other people, and figuring out ways to blame
other people for their problems. When their business
is failing, it is because of the Japanese, liberals,
Chinese, unions, or some other group. It is never their
fault. When they fail as a government official, it
is because of those liberals, Chinese, etc.
All humans are similar to one another, but I would say
the conservatives have a greater similarity to
communist leaders and gang members than the rest of
us. Those three groups of people do not spend much of
their time doing research, having discussions, or
experimenting with ways to improve their life. They
tend to spend every day doing what they have done in
the past.
As with animals, they have a strong tendency to ignore
problems, but when the problems become serious,
they tend to react with anger and hatred,
just like an animal.
For example, the conservative business executives have
a tendency to ignore changes in technology, and they
try to keep everything as it is. When technology has
changed so much that their business is suffering, they
tend to react with anger. They whine about the
liberals, Japanese, Chinese, unions, or government
officials.
The communist dictators behave exactly the same way.
They waste their time on idiotic activities, and when
their economy has deteriorated to the point at which
the people are hungry, instead of doing something to
improve their nation, they look for ways to blame
their troubles on foreign nations.
Conservatives are acceptable as farmers, truck
drivers, and supervisors of construction crews because
those professions allow people to do the same thing
over and over, year after year. However, we need a
different personality for the top positions in a
modern society. We need people who are truly
interested in society, and who will put time and
effort into analyzing our problems and experimenting
with improvements.
Conservatives seem to beg more often than the
rest of us
Animals have no inhibitions about begging,
and neither do humans, but there are differences
between us. At one extreme are the people who beg
constantly for various handouts, such as food, money,
help with their homework, or help at their job. They
also frequently want to borrow something from us, such
as food, tools, or money. At the other extreme are the
people who avoid asking for help even when they risk
serious consequences as a result.
The conservatives boast that they are appalled with
welfare recipients, and that they are hard-working
people who would never take a handout, but they have
no problem begging for handouts. The difference
between conservatives and liberals, in regards to
handouts, is that the conservatives ask for complex
handouts, such as inheritances and tax benefits, and
if they have a business, they beg for regulations,
licenses, and fees that inhibit competitors. Some of
them will donate money to a college in order to put
pressure on the college to accept their stupid
children.
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How are the people who beg
their God for favors showing better qualities
than a homeless person who begs for money?
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Some conservatives also beg their God for
various favors, such as help in business, money,
television sets, the death of somebody they don't
like, or some other type of gift. Some of them will
also beg their God to forgive them for the crimes that
they have committed.
However, from the point of view of the conservatives,
they are not begging for handouts. For example, when
we oppose inheritances and trust funds, we are not
opposing "handouts". Rather, we are imposing "death
taxes" on innocent citizens who have worked hard for
their money. When the conservatives beg the government
for regulations or tariffs to restrict foreign and
domestic competition, we are not giving those
businessmen a "handout". Rather, we are "helping the
economy".
If the conservatives truly opposed handouts and wanted
people to earn their position in life, then they would
be the group of people most opposed to inheritances,
trust funds, tax benefits, nepotism, monarchies,
monopolies, and other forms of handouts. However, from
my own personal observations, the opposite is true.
Furthermore, if the conservatives were truly opposed
to begging, then their religion would reflect that
attitude. Their religion would promote the philosophy
that God is disgusted with a person who prays for
gifts. Their religion would teach that God
admires a person if he earns what he wants in life,
and in a fair and honest manner. Their religion would
promote the attitude that people should pray only to
give thanks to God, but never to ask for anything.
Why do conservatives
promote inheritances?
Conservatives promote monarchies,
inheritances, and trust funds simply because this is
how animals behave. An animal lives only to
reproduce, and it sacrifices its life for its
offspring.
An animal does not care about the offspring of other
animals. Animals care only about their own offspring.
Animals have no desire to make their offspring earn
anything, or compete fairly. They want to give their
offspring as much as possible so that they have the
greatest chance of survival. Animals will steal food
from one another, if they get the opportunity. They
don't care if the offspring of some other animal dies
of starvation as a result.
Conservatives behave exactly like animals. They have a
tremendous craving to reproduce, take care of their
children, and pamper their children. They want to help
their children to become strong and healthy. They have
no interest in other people's children, and they have
no desire to make their children compete fairly in
life.
It should be obvious that this attitude is sensible
during prehistoric times. However, in this modern
world, raising children is becoming increasingly easy.
Although babies need a lot of attention, once children
start school, raising children becomes a part-time
activity. Furthermore, if we create a city in which we
are intolerant of crime, raising children will become
even easier because parents will no longer need to be
bodyguards for their children. And if we also create a
city in which the food and other material items are
free, then raising children becomes even easier
because parents won't have to worry about providing
anything for their children.
Parents no longer need to sacrifice their lives for
their children. Furthermore, and more important,
children today need to learn skills and get complex
jobs, and we hurt society when we tolerate
monarchies, nepotism, trust funds, and other forms of
handouts to children. Children today need to earn what
they want, treat people fairly, and get a job that
they can perform properly.
Discussions are an
increasingly important part of modern life
Groups of people in leadership positions are
regularly getting together for discussions about how
to design a new USB standard, whether some of the
machines in their factory should be replaced with
automated machines, or whether a bridge that is
deteriorating should be renovated or replaced with a
new bridge.
Ideally, all of the people in these discussions would
be aware of the fact that they have a mind with animal
qualities, and they would make an attempt to control
their emotions and think about what is best for their
particular organization.
Ideally, schools would teach children that humans are
inherently selfish, arrogant, frightened of the
unknown, and have a desire to follow one another like
stupid sheep. Schools should also teach children that
when we create an opinion, we are proud of it and will
promote it rather than look critically at it, just
like a mother with a newborn baby. Schools should give
children practice in having discussions about issues
that are emotionally stimulating so that they can
learn how to keep their animal qualities under control
and focus on the issue.
Unfortunately, most of the adults in the world today
are either oblivious to their animal qualities, or
they are religious people who believe they are a
creation of God. When these people get together for
discussions, they make no attempt to control their
emotions. The end result is that their emotions can
interfere with the discussions.
For example, some of them allow their selfishness to
twist the discussion, such as government officials who
are more concerned with appeasing their particular
supporters, or businessmen who are more concerned with
their income and status. Some of them allow their fear
of the unknown to push the discussion towards
remaining with whatever is familiar to them. Some of
them let their craving to follow their ancestors twist
the discussion into doing what their ancestors have
done. Some of them will allow their craving to be the
top monkey in the hierarchy to push them into promoting
their opinion so that they can feel as if they are the
smartest person in the world.
Having a discussion with a group of humans who are not
exerting any control over their emotions is not truly
having a "discussion". The reason is because the
people will not be using their intellect to discuss
the issue. Rather, they will be following their
emotions and trying to push their particular opinions
on one another. They will be behaving like wild
animals fighting over territory. They will not look
critically at their own opinions, or favorably at
other people's opinions. They will not be analyzing
evidence or doing research. They will simply be
looking for ways to justify their particular opinions
and criticize other people's opinions.
In another document I mentioned that I live in Goleta,
and there was a time many years ago when the city
officials decided to renovate downtown Goleta, which
is incredibly ugly, and so they held discussions
between the government officials and the businessmen
on what exactly should be done to improve the area.
However, after numerous discussions they eventually
gave up and did nothing.
Why were those meetings useless? I don't know, but I
remember many businessmen worrying that a particular
change might hurt their business. It is possible that
if we could analyze those meetings, we would discover
that the businessmen were typical conservatives who
were so frightened of the unknown that no matter what
somebody proposed, some of them became frightened that
they would be harmed by the changes.
When the USB port was developed, the group of people
who set the standards agreed to an idiotic design that
made it impossible for us to determine which
orientation was correct when inserting the cable into
the socket. How did such intelligent people make such
a stupid decision?
There are thousands of examples in which people got
together to make a decision, but either nothing was
accomplished, or they created a decision that was
later determined to be inefficient, wasteful, or
inadequate.
We should not dismiss this problem as insignificant.
Our prehistoric ancestors didn't have to discuss
anything, but discussions are becoming an increasingly
important part of this modern world. We should
understand why people
are having so much trouble discussing issues and
agreeing on sensible policies. We should understand
why discussions are so often ruined by fights,
grinding of teeth, and insults. We should be looking
for ways to improve the situation, not disregarding
it.
Furthermore, we should face the fact that some people
are better at controlling their emotions during
discussions. We should keep track of everybody's
performance at meetings and hold them responsible for
their behavior and decisions. This will enable us to
pass judgment on who is making the best decisions, and
through time this will give us an idea of who to
invite to future meetings, and who to keep out.
If we were to start observing people at meetings, we
would discover that some people are capable of having
productive meetings only if the meeting avoids issues
that stimulate our emotions. For example, we would
discover that a lot of engineers are capable of having
a serious and calm discussion about how to fix a
bridge that is deteriorating, but if those engineers
are allowed to participate in a discussion that
stimulates emotions, such as abortion, immigration, or
euthanasia, we would find that some of them are
grinding their teeth, yelling, and unable to look
seriously at their opinions or other people's
opinions.
From my own observations of people, those who describe
themselves as "conservatives" are troublesome at
meetings in which we are planning our future or
discussing issues that stimulate human emotions. Many
conservatives have a lot of valuable knowledge that is
useful for meetings, in which case they would be
useful as consultants and as sources of data, but they
should not be allowed to participate in the portion of
the discussion at which decisions are made on what to
do with our future. Their mental characteristics are
simply too crude. They are too arrogant, too easily
frightened of the unknown, have too strong of a
craving to follow their ancestors, and have too strong
of a tendency to disregard reality and twist
everything to fit their religious fantasies.
Conservatives do not have the ability to contribute to
a discussion about foreign affairs, school systems,
holiday celebrations, clothing styles, abortion,
euthanasia, or even sports. If they are allowed to
participate in a discussion of foreign affairs, they
will promote the animal-like policy of fighting with
foreign nations. If allowed to participate in
discussions about abortion, they will promote the
animal-like policy of sacrificing their lives to save
babies. If allowed to participate in discussions about
school systems, they will promote teaching their
particular religious fantasies. They cannot even
participate in discussions about sports, food,
or clothing styles because they will merely
promote whatever their ancestors were doing.
Conservatives are detrimental in discussions
about our future because they will not experiment with
changes, look critically at themselves, or control
their animal cravings.
Conservatives can help us
understand our prehistoric ancestors
I think that an analysis of the people who
call themselves "conservatives" will help us gain a
much better understanding of our prehistoric
ancestors. I think they also give us an indication of
what an animal mind is like.
For example, conservatives do not show much of an
interest in reality, and I think this is an indication
that animals have even less
of an interest. If animals had as
much intelligence as a human, I think we would
discover that they are even more out of touch with
reality than any conservative.
Millions of Christians believe that Jesus could walk
on water, turn water into wine, and heal people with
leprosy, and they believe that somewhere up in the air
is a heaven where all of the dead people are living a
wonderful life, and somewhere else there is a place
where all of the evil people are being tortured
forever by Devils. I suspect animals would come up
with religions that are much wilder and more senseless
than anything that humans have created.
With humans, only a minority believe they are capable
of reading minds, or that they had a previous life, or
that there are multiple infinite universes on
different planes in different dimensions. However, if
animals were intelligent, we might discover that all
of them believe in crazy theories, such as
clairvoyance, women's intuition, mind-reading, and
reincarnation.
The human race has developed a lot of idiotic ideas
about religion, voodoo, and palm reading, and rather
than dismiss this as meaningless, we ought to wonder
why. I think it is because the human mind is
just an advanced monkey brain, and it is an indication
that animals do not have any concern about reality. An
animal brain is designed only to allow the creature to
survive and reproduce.
The conservatives claim that religion is beneficial
because it encourages good behavior, but if that were
true, then the people who work and live in churches
should be the best behaved people. However, the
churches are where we find a lot of pedophiles,
parasites, and homosexuals.
Furthermore, the Christian religion has a very
destructive attitude; namely, that God will forgive us
no matter what we do. This allows Christians to commit
crimes over and over, and every time they commit a
crime, all they have to do is ask for forgiveness.
This is a disgusting philosophy that encourages the
badly behaved and psychotic people to commit crimes.
Why does the Christian religion encourage people to
believe that they will go to heaven when they die? Why
does it encourage people to believe that God will
forgive them for their sins? Why do the Christians
believe that God will answer their prayers?
It is because the people who become Christians are the
type of people who don't care about reality. They
believe what they want to believe, and they want to
believe that when they die, they will have a new and
better life, and they want to believe that when they
commit a crime, they will be forgiven. They believe
whatever they want to believe. We could describe the
Christians as "living in a fantasy world".
Most of the conservatives in America are Christians,
so we could say that most of the conservatives are
living in a fantasy world.
The mental qualities that we see in conservatives
should not be dismissed as irrelevant. Their qualities
were wonderful during prehistoric times, but they
should not be allowed to influence modern society.
They cannot do a good job of voting, and when we allow
them into leadership positions, nothing can possibly
improve because they don't want to change anything.
They are not explorers or thinkers. They are
prehistoric savages who want to follow their ancestors
and fight with neighboring tribes.
Trump and the other conservatives are making remarks
that are as stupid and violent as those of the North
Korean leaders. Rather than provide intelligent
guidance, the conservatives, communist dictators, and
gang leaders are constantly whining, hating, and
advocating fights.
This modern world should not allow such people in
leadership positions. We need leaders who analyze
problems, conduct experiments, and explore our paths
in life.
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