My experience is most of those cool people will stab you in the back. Even people I knew pretty well ended up screwing me over in one way or another. Just seriously fuck all hippies, man.
Either you're still a child with no life experience or so delusional you can't think straight.
The reason why "stereotypes" exist is because our brains (when they work properly) are meant to group things. It's one of the defining characteristics of the human mind: to recognize patterns. To understand systems and not hang up on the "one on one" struggle of predator/prey.
As with any pattern, grouping or system there are outliers. Some have more than others, of course, but you're almost always right if you recognize the system and adapt to the pattern.
The left's biggest victory in America is somehow convincing most people to stop believing their lying eyes. This "stereotypes are bad" nonsense is how people end up getting stabbed on the street. Enjoy it, I guess...
Okay, I'm really gonna let you have it over this one, as follows:
I've thought it over and: I made a careless comment, downright silly, really, and I apologize for it. You're right about pattern recognition. But I also remember something Elias Canetti wrote: "The leap into the general is so dangerous that it has to be made again and again, and from the same place." I take it that "the same place" is the awareness of the potential dangers of generalizing about people (Canetti was a Jew and I think that's part of what he had in mind). This doesn't mean we don't, or shouldn't generalize. The goal of scientific inquiry is to reach a valid generalization (e.g., a law of nature, such as the instinct to generalize). Without it we couldn't think, period. The point is to do it empirically and with awareness of the stakes.
Also, I'm a Boomer myself and ambivalent and maybe a bit defensive about the rickety old cohort I belong to. I even contradict myself in another comment here.
I'm unclear what that person meant I guess, I read it as they were being facetious and accusing (me?) of stereotyping, which they feel is the evilest of evils.
I feel you 100% on that one. I’ve met a lot of cool people on phish lot...I’ve also met a lot of assholes.
My experience is most of those cool people will stab you in the back. Even people I knew pretty well ended up screwing me over in one way or another. Just seriously fuck all hippies, man.
Either you're still a child with no life experience or so delusional you can't think straight.
The reason why "stereotypes" exist is because our brains (when they work properly) are meant to group things. It's one of the defining characteristics of the human mind: to recognize patterns. To understand systems and not hang up on the "one on one" struggle of predator/prey.
As with any pattern, grouping or system there are outliers. Some have more than others, of course, but you're almost always right if you recognize the system and adapt to the pattern.
The left's biggest victory in America is somehow convincing most people to stop believing their lying eyes. This "stereotypes are bad" nonsense is how people end up getting stabbed on the street. Enjoy it, I guess...
Okay, I'm really gonna let you have it over this one, as follows:
I've thought it over and: I made a careless comment, downright silly, really, and I apologize for it. You're right about pattern recognition. But I also remember something Elias Canetti wrote: "The leap into the general is so dangerous that it has to be made again and again, and from the same place." I take it that "the same place" is the awareness of the potential dangers of generalizing about people (Canetti was a Jew and I think that's part of what he had in mind). This doesn't mean we don't, or shouldn't generalize. The goal of scientific inquiry is to reach a valid generalization (e.g., a law of nature, such as the instinct to generalize). Without it we couldn't think, period. The point is to do it empirically and with awareness of the stakes.
Also, I'm a Boomer myself and ambivalent and maybe a bit defensive about the rickety old cohort I belong to. I even contradict myself in another comment here.
Anyway,
Peace, Pede.
Fair enough
You are right of course but I'm pretty sure the person you responded to was joking.
I'm unclear what that person meant I guess, I read it as they were being facetious and accusing (me?) of stereotyping, which they feel is the evilest of evils.
lot of assholes on a phish lot of assholes on a phish lot.....