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Internet has become the handmaid of dumbed-down intellectuals : Comments

By Betsy Fysh, published 30/5/2019

It is a valuable source of information and communication, but the internet is also patrolled by rival gangs who seek to intimidate each other under cover of anonymity.

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Western Society has forgotten the values that got us to where we are and is giving way to the hysteria of identity politics and political correctness.

Some think those values lost are 'Christian values';
(I'd argue it's not about whether or not one believes in God but an erosion of some of the core ethics that underlie Christianity)

But more importantly I think it's also an erosion of non-secular ethics as well.

The Socratic Method and The Harm Principle to a large degree make religion obsolete;
Except for believing (or not believing) in God which itself should be a personal matter.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Friday, 31 May 2019 1:46:32 PM
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Being insipid in the extreme is the new aspiration of intellectuals !
Posted by individual, Saturday, 1 June 2019 5:57:55 AM
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The inspired Individual...

Inspirational people are in a long cue on top of Mount Everest, awaiting their turn to climb the last three hundred feet before the oxygen runs out.
But should we say, "what a way to die"!

Inspirational people support their heros, by emulating their heros achievements, (Donald Trump devotees).

Is inspiration necessarily a bad thing though? Looking carefully for our own OLO example of the inspired, look no further than "Al B".

Dan.

Dan
Posted by diver dan, Saturday, 1 June 2019 7:56:47 AM
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