GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONALISM aka QTards Misrepresent Klaus Schwab

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I am really annoyed by the Republican sinophobia (seen on this site as much as anywhere else) by people who don't know anything about China. About 20% of Chinese people call themselves libertarians. I correspond with many Chinese people, and they are far more informed and open minded than the bigoted, tribal, oblivious Americans so confident in their superiority.

China has a smaller, weaker, more decentralized government than the USA both per capita and absolutely. The patriotards are completely unjustified in their assertions of MURICA FIRST, but I suppose being a flaggot and a dumbass go together.

[–]Antarchomachus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah you are 100% correct, and it is frustrating. I am attempting to have empathy for these people - Americans are bombarded with a huge amount of propaganda and misinformation, so I'm not totally surprised that people get their facts messed up. At the same time, some of us have managed to untangle some of this, and the people lacking critical thinking probably are doing enormous harm to us with their ignorance.

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Most people are simply too dumb and uncritical to have any valid epistemic reasons for holding opinions on most things, they should just shut up. But Dumbocracy works by politicizing the least and the dumbest to vote based on their tribal identity and feelings, and ends up corrupting all of social discourse in the process. Most people have zero epistemic right to political, economic or social opinions, they know nothing and are too stupid, bigoted and lazy to learn when they should. Democracy is cultural cancer.

[–]Antarchomachus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think you are getting at something important here, and I honestly don't know how to feel about it....

Yes, mob rule by the idiot masses is pretty insane, and I agree, the vast majority of people have no right to their opinions, because they can't even think them through. I am quite sympathetic to this, and think there is a lot of truth here. A big part of me has no sympathy for the masses, and at some level they deserve their exploitation by the elites.

But heres where I struggle... I worry about this tendency to be OK with exploitation, because the Elites, in their lack of caring, are perfectly OK with exploiting and doing wrong to people like you and me, who HAVE coherent beliefs, and don't deserve that treatment. How do we stop our sense of superiority over the masses from leading to this psychopathy where thinking people us have to suffer the harms.

I'm a little torn on this, and I don't think I've got it all figured out yet.

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If you want to get on MeWe I can give you a couple of works that give some answers, ebooks and some documents written by a friend of mine in the UK