It is apparent in our exchange of comments, that at least some of our readers shrug off comments as simple exchanges of insults.
No. Wrong. Bad.
We mean what we say, very specifically when we fault the opposition for failure to correctly identify topics, for simplistic argumentation that fails logical analysis, and the two perennial problems, a lack of intellectual honesty, and a lack of critical thinking generally.
We are not simply throwing out those specific criticisms as if they were 'you're mother wears army boots' insults.
We specifically mean those things when we write them. And while they are not complimentary - that part is correct - the problem they identify is real, very real, all too real.
Pulling something that sounds like vaguely, kinda maybe it might fit out of your asses after it enters your brain through our eyes from a web site somewhere is not thinking, it is not grasping concepts, and it is not engaging in either valid argumentation or critical analysis/ critical thinking. Top that off with a severe lack of a solid foundational basis for comments in fact, and you have a situation where
we never can and never will get past the most trivial and superficial discussion on the level of bumper stickers.
In fact, we might be more successful simply playing dodgem cars with real cars, real bumpers and real bumper stickers. Because the collision of bumper stickers would accomplish as little as some exchanges here towards a meeting of minds regarding facts, concepts, and intelligent thought.
What some of you try to write off as hate - presumably along the stupid lines of 'they hate us for our freedoms' espoused by the twit queen of quit Sarah Palin (an ill-educated, ignorant, intellectual pygmy if ever there was one) is NOT hate. It IS frustration. It IS outrage. But no one hates you, and you are not the target of dire conspiracies either. When you fail THIS much, people will get cross with you - in part because of our willful ignorance and your obdurate refusal to think - or learn how to think.
So don't blow off what we write as simple insults; it is genuine and valid criticism of your failures. Trying to ignore it as "you just don't like me" or "you just don't understand" (we DO), or "you'll say anything mean because you disagree" is incorrect. We understand what we are saying, we mean what we are saying, and it is objective criticism of you - not casual meaningless insult.
There is something seriously wrong (many things, actually) with what you call thinking.
