Three quick thoughts for today…
Thought #1
Peanut butter and jelly requires concord grape jelly. A peanut-butter-and-strawberry-preserves sandwich is communism.
Com-mun-is-m.
Thought #2
Here is a rule of thumb on ‘racism’:
The number of actual racists has not increased—only the frequency with which the left uses the word.
Leftists will shriek at this, but they also call hats, hand gestures, and ham sandwiches racist, so they're hardly rational on the subject. Stop worrying about what they think.
Thought #3
Does the Dunning-Kruger effect (or something like it) apply to morality?
Dunning-Kruger is the tendency of someone with limited knowledge in a particular domain to overestimate his competence in that domain. The more a person learns about the domain, the more he realizes that it is more complex than he at first surmised. (Knowing how little one actually knew at the beginning requires learning things one did not know at the beginning!)
Thinking about the epidemic of meaningless virtue signaling that is sweeping the Western world, it occurred to me to wonder… Does the typical boilerplate virtue-signaler think that he is more noble and compassionate he actually is?
Wow—being a good person is so easy!
*Tweets about inequality*
Being good feels so good!
*Eats a cheese puff; calls someone a Nazi*
I am a better person than him.
Perhaps there is more to being noble and compassionate than this.
What are your thoughts this Thursday?
Think I'll make a meme out of #2