tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7595175612474286287..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Red Pill, Blue PillAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-33759386959555447702018-05-13T09:29:40.825-04:002018-05-13T09:29:40.825-04:00Sam L: Ahhhhhh
We have found Assistant Village Id...<b>Sam L</b>: <i>Ahhhhhh</i><br /><br />We have found Assistant Village Idiot's posts to be better thought out than most, certainly not knee-jerk. And we agree in part with his views. However, there is a point to be made about black-and-white thinking, or rather, red-and-blue thinking entailed in the <i>dramatic</i> device of "The Matrix"; or concerning his comments about what he considered the 'reality-base community'. <br /><br />We also read things like this: <br /><br /><b>Assistant Village Idiot</b>: <i>I think most people credit that men's rights advocates have some legitimate complaints, but that they include a lot of pretty disturbing people. I could say that at work without getting into any trouble. I couldn't say the same thing about women's rights advocates.</i><br /><br />The women's rights movement is a vast widespread group, the majority of whom are not particularly 'disturbing people'. The men's rights movements is a much narrower group, representatives of a historically advantaged group, and with a large segment of 'pretty disturbing people', many of whom apparently think they deserve sex from women. In other words, there is a significant difference between the two groups, and therefore people's reaction to the equivalence.<br /> Zachrielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16081260898264733380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-47356142449043943152018-05-12T23:58:43.469-04:002018-05-12T23:58:43.469-04:00Ahhhhhh; AVI, it appears you have been discovered ...Ahhhhhh; AVI, it appears you have been discovered by the Gang of Z.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-12159061925986750782018-05-12T13:04:57.845-04:002018-05-12T13:04:57.845-04:00Assistant Village Idiot: The way the colors landed...<b>Assistant Village Idiot</b>: <i>The way the colors landed plays out well for conservatives, who get the red pill, representing reality. I don't know if that was intended in "The Matrix."</i><br /> <br />Red for Republicans and Blue for Democrats didn't become standard until the 2000 election. "The Matrix" was released in 1999. <br /> <br />The inherent problem with the red pill-blue pill analogy is the strict and therefore misleading dichotomy it entails, accentuating extremist beliefs. <br /> <br /><b>Assistant Village Idiot</b>: <i>One of my arguments against liberals is that they do have many house-of-cards beliefs, that reality can be remade or reimagined with just a little (government, expensive) effort. </i><br /> <br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community" rel="nofollow">Reality-based community</a>: The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.<br /><br /><b>Assistant Village Idiot</b>: <i>There are continuities in personality and culture, sometimes over enormous periods of time, certainly. </i><br /><br />People haven't radically changed, but cultural and political institutions certainly have and do change. Since the Renaissance, the world has moved towards greater and great equality; social, political, economic; while conservatism has worked to preserve long-standing mores and institutions. Zachrielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16081260898264733380noreply@blogger.com