Post Modernism – A Tailored Virus Meant to Preserve the Status Quo

I just stumbled across your website. While I obviously am not familiar with all the issues on it, at least your approach is interesting. It’s good to see those commenting suggestions in writing for instance: too many have taken what I’ve come to call “the American Way” putting opinion before fact, and then flinging it for all it’s worth. And then everyone acts surprised that the other person’s stance is affected by their preconceived notions, little realizing that they are all doing the exact same thing. This has reduced debate to, well, non-debate: opinion-flinging exclusively.
Being a problem-solver, I suppose I could have done what you did. Create a blog just to have an outlet for my expression. I was raised in the Montréal region but lived in Calgary for ten years. Definite cultural differences, and I can see how the lack of venue for expression in any culture could lead to where you are. That’s because of some innate ability I seem to have. I view all cultures, even my own as if I’m an alien who understands the language, but nothing else. It leads to a lot of insights. For instance, the whole opinion-flinging culture. When people feel at all repressed, they are going to seek outlets for the anger and frustration this creates. They also become very impatient. Their empathy, if they ever had any (many people do not, and in a lot of others, it isn’t as strong as say their anger or frustration) gets utterly abandoned. Frustration in particular leads to a well-known phenomenon in psych circles. It recalls to one their earliest remembered such incident, like a parent making their child wait in line at the bank, or telling them “no” once too often on an important issue. They regress and that regression becomes habitual. The internet gives their opinions more attention than they’re used to, and feeds the regression.
You can hopefully tell that I grasp a lot of social psychology. I’m trying to use it to connect with your thoughts and to a lot of pertinent issues in today’s world. I’m a problem-solver by nature. Discussion id fun up to a point: but when the problems go from theoretical, as in “should government be the regulating body for fill-in-the-blank” to the practical of “we live right next to a well-armed population of confused frightened people about to lose all their fresh water”, I think it’s time for some discussion about practical things. So this would have to deal with whatever preconceived notions u may have, the general public etc. and how much outside-the-box thinking you can stand, and that’s if u even want to have the conversation. Most either find some aspect of it too hard to grasp, or just want to avoid it. I have an actual practical idea that if enacted, could do something about that issue, many connected ones, and lead to vast changes. It’s finally getting some attention, but not enough to really get it started. For one thing, it’s designed for the U.S.A. It’s hard to get Canadians concerned about things not directly affecting them, and most aren’t smart enough to treat that well-armed population fact as anything but a joke. Even the people who have been screaming about the U.S. wanting to steal all our fresh water for years don’t think anyone will actually do what I say is possible, showing just how much our preconceived notions affect our judgement. “Oh, they’ll militarize and attack, but they would never aggressively come after us.” we need something to pull people out of this cycle of stupidity before something severe happens. Let me know if this is a conversation you’d like to have. Merci.

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