There was some well-known multi-part study that absolutely did analyze the brain between leftist / liberals versus conservatives. And, yeah, the results pretty much weren't good for the former.
IME, it's just being able to think of oneself as having agency, being self-responsible, and therefore capable of self-conducting root cause analysis and determining 2nd, 3rd order effects of actions.
Most conservatives can do this almost instinctually. It's something they seem to have been taught at an early age. I think it comes from having dealt more with the real world, physical things, manual labor, skilled trades, businesses, entrepreneurial endeavors, etc. Where actions have consequences and you learn by experience in real time.
Today's liberals operate by what makes them feel good/superior in the moment, which is driven by what they were told are the "correct" views to hold. They see themselves as good little boys and girls, following teacher's orders. It's a sort of programming that's hard to undo. Liberals therefore cannot do the root cause and effect analysis unless instructed by a teacher - and even then, they need to be brought to the "correct" conclusions. It's dangerous to them to do the analysis on their own b/c they might come to the "wrong" conclusions, like that terrible "right wing" stuff. I see this mentality at work all the time.
(As an aside, this is also the problem with all academic journals. It's why they never generate a new idea, get everything wrong, and are filled with groupthink, and ultimately, propaganda. Being able to understand root causes and effects allows for calculated risk taking and innovation. No risk, no innovation.)
E.g., modern liberals' views on immigration, where they think it makes them kind and compassionate if they advocate for an open border policy. They're not thinking through the root causes of WHY those people are coming here. It's factually incorrect to say they are seeking asylum; they are not. "Seeking a better life" is not a good enough reason. As we all know, we can't just pack up and declare ourselves citizens of some other country b/c we think we'll like it more.
Liberals don't think through even 1st order effects, like: they broke the law in being here; so, what does that say about their regard for this country? What does that mean for their own well-being as humans? What's the effect on communities, especially the poor ones where these criminals will now live and take resources from natural born poor citizens? Or 2nd order effects like: now we have millions of literal criminals spread across the country, we don't have room for them, we can't afford them, and they are changing the culture of many places, in some cases 100s of years of culture is being wiped out. Then there's the 3rd order effects of what does that mean for the future of the country? National security? Social cohesion? The economy? Productivity? Etc. Liberals do not think of any of these things. They just repeat the talking points they were given by teachers/mentors b/c those make them feel superior and give them the warm fuzzies. It's their identity, in a very real way.
Leftists, on the other hand, do think through these things. It's just that their logic is terrible and incorrect, so they come to the wrong conclusions. They are the people who utterly failed logic class. They tend to come to insanely wrong conclusions like "if some A are B, then all A are B." (A good example of this is the trans issue where they think: some people never outgrow their mental illness of dysmorphia, therefore we must treat all children who ever express even a hint of it to the maximum degree. It's just really bad, incorrect logic.) And then the entire chain of conclusions they come to rests upon that one core thing they got horribly wrong. They're dumb, but in a different way. However, b/c they "thought about it" they are 100% convinced they are correct and consider it a moral violation to disagree with their conclusion.
Unfortunately, academic leftists are often the source of academic liberals' ideas, which then become the dominant views of everyday liberals.
On a very related note, here's the description of a recent PragerU video:
"Tell the average American you’re a liberal, and they’ll assume you’re on the political left. Yet, leftists and liberals hold very different positions on key issues. In this video, Dennis Prager explains how the tenets of liberalism like a belief in capitalism and free speech have more in common with conservatism than with the identity politics and racial resentment preached by the left. "
Somewhere in the archives is an article with this theme: “Thirty percent of really liberal people have a history of mental illness.” I'm guessing the rest have not been diagnosed.
We all know that self-ownership, or thinking of oneself, is a problem for the collective work mob.
So, in regard to the long-lost forgotten study I mentioned above, if I had to take a stab at it from a psychology / metaphysical perspective, my TL;DR thinking on it is this:
It's 'as if' they came here as incarnated twisted little souls, whose sense of Self never developed, or popped back in a Space-Time continuum that requires common sense, self-responsibility, a quest for self-interest (i.e., to focus on results, first, for yourself), and a worldview that is managed bottom-up.
In short, their brain can't comprehend any form of self-improvement or "me focused" self-reflection and self-drive. That kind of "work" makes it to where they would no longer rely on their handlers, The Establishment, to tell them how to be, do, and act.
I ponder the why's of these liberal/leftist ideas a lot. I'm one of 4 children...we are all over 65 now. Our parents were conservative, especially my Air Force father. We are all 4 years apart in age and grew up together in an intact family, yet I am the only one of the 4 who is conservative. My brothers are uber liberal, borderline leftist, my sister is religiously conservative yet she detests Trump to the max based on his slander by various women. That's all she can look at, and none of his other policies. My younger brother enthusiastically supported Bernie Sanders, and I don't know who my other two siblings voted for. It's puzzling to me how we all turned out so different in our views. My sister told me yesterday that I am the analytical one of the family. Maybe that's it. I analyze, they don't.
The whole thing, CMCM, is perplexing.... to the core... without question. Sometimes I wonder if there's a "secret mass psychosis experiment" going on in this country. We, collectively, have certainly lost touch with its core principles.
I think being analytical, and eagerly analytical, indicates a curious mind. I think the best researchers, detectives and investigators are good because they’re curious and if somebody’s not curious I wonder if they are just wired differently.
My siblings and my own kids reflect varying degrees of trusting their parents and reacting against them. The most functional are introspective, quite self-critical, curious, and unlikely to ever see themselves as the smartest person in the room. Somehow, they can be all of that and still confident. I think the best results come from understanding 1) there is a God, and 2) it’s not me.
I think that both leftists and liberals are intellectually retarded. (I enjoy using politically incorrect words.)
There was some well-known multi-part study that absolutely did analyze the brain between leftist / liberals versus conservatives. And, yeah, the results pretty much weren't good for the former.
I'll see if I can find it.
I think it has something to do with learning what to think as opposed to learning how to think.
Emotion v logic, too, perhaps!!!
Leftists are definitely driven by emotion rather than rational thought.
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IME, it's just being able to think of oneself as having agency, being self-responsible, and therefore capable of self-conducting root cause analysis and determining 2nd, 3rd order effects of actions.
Most conservatives can do this almost instinctually. It's something they seem to have been taught at an early age. I think it comes from having dealt more with the real world, physical things, manual labor, skilled trades, businesses, entrepreneurial endeavors, etc. Where actions have consequences and you learn by experience in real time.
Today's liberals operate by what makes them feel good/superior in the moment, which is driven by what they were told are the "correct" views to hold. They see themselves as good little boys and girls, following teacher's orders. It's a sort of programming that's hard to undo. Liberals therefore cannot do the root cause and effect analysis unless instructed by a teacher - and even then, they need to be brought to the "correct" conclusions. It's dangerous to them to do the analysis on their own b/c they might come to the "wrong" conclusions, like that terrible "right wing" stuff. I see this mentality at work all the time.
(As an aside, this is also the problem with all academic journals. It's why they never generate a new idea, get everything wrong, and are filled with groupthink, and ultimately, propaganda. Being able to understand root causes and effects allows for calculated risk taking and innovation. No risk, no innovation.)
E.g., modern liberals' views on immigration, where they think it makes them kind and compassionate if they advocate for an open border policy. They're not thinking through the root causes of WHY those people are coming here. It's factually incorrect to say they are seeking asylum; they are not. "Seeking a better life" is not a good enough reason. As we all know, we can't just pack up and declare ourselves citizens of some other country b/c we think we'll like it more.
Liberals don't think through even 1st order effects, like: they broke the law in being here; so, what does that say about their regard for this country? What does that mean for their own well-being as humans? What's the effect on communities, especially the poor ones where these criminals will now live and take resources from natural born poor citizens? Or 2nd order effects like: now we have millions of literal criminals spread across the country, we don't have room for them, we can't afford them, and they are changing the culture of many places, in some cases 100s of years of culture is being wiped out. Then there's the 3rd order effects of what does that mean for the future of the country? National security? Social cohesion? The economy? Productivity? Etc. Liberals do not think of any of these things. They just repeat the talking points they were given by teachers/mentors b/c those make them feel superior and give them the warm fuzzies. It's their identity, in a very real way.
Leftists, on the other hand, do think through these things. It's just that their logic is terrible and incorrect, so they come to the wrong conclusions. They are the people who utterly failed logic class. They tend to come to insanely wrong conclusions like "if some A are B, then all A are B." (A good example of this is the trans issue where they think: some people never outgrow their mental illness of dysmorphia, therefore we must treat all children who ever express even a hint of it to the maximum degree. It's just really bad, incorrect logic.) And then the entire chain of conclusions they come to rests upon that one core thing they got horribly wrong. They're dumb, but in a different way. However, b/c they "thought about it" they are 100% convinced they are correct and consider it a moral violation to disagree with their conclusion.
Unfortunately, academic leftists are often the source of academic liberals' ideas, which then become the dominant views of everyday liberals.
Superbly well-said, RU 👏. I think I may even quote ya in one of my forthcoming Bulletins, under my 'Culture & Society' category.
On a very related note, here's the description of a recent PragerU video:
"Tell the average American you’re a liberal, and they’ll assume you’re on the political left. Yet, leftists and liberals hold very different positions on key issues. In this video, Dennis Prager explains how the tenets of liberalism like a belief in capitalism and free speech have more in common with conservatism than with the identity politics and racial resentment preached by the left. "
https://youtu.be/XzATm8ZsLnk
Brilliant analysis
yes, excellent comment
Here’s a fun and often deplatformed site in that vein. https://inductivist.blogspot.com/
Somewhere in the archives is an article with this theme: “Thirty percent of really liberal people have a history of mental illness.” I'm guessing the rest have not been diagnosed.
"I'm guessing the rest have not been diagnosed."
Brilliant 👏 🤣
We all know that self-ownership, or thinking of oneself, is a problem for the collective work mob.
So, in regard to the long-lost forgotten study I mentioned above, if I had to take a stab at it from a psychology / metaphysical perspective, my TL;DR thinking on it is this:
It's 'as if' they came here as incarnated twisted little souls, whose sense of Self never developed, or popped back in a Space-Time continuum that requires common sense, self-responsibility, a quest for self-interest (i.e., to focus on results, first, for yourself), and a worldview that is managed bottom-up.
In short, their brain can't comprehend any form of self-improvement or "me focused" self-reflection and self-drive. That kind of "work" makes it to where they would no longer rely on their handlers, The Establishment, to tell them how to be, do, and act.
Ba-Bam.
I ponder the why's of these liberal/leftist ideas a lot. I'm one of 4 children...we are all over 65 now. Our parents were conservative, especially my Air Force father. We are all 4 years apart in age and grew up together in an intact family, yet I am the only one of the 4 who is conservative. My brothers are uber liberal, borderline leftist, my sister is religiously conservative yet she detests Trump to the max based on his slander by various women. That's all she can look at, and none of his other policies. My younger brother enthusiastically supported Bernie Sanders, and I don't know who my other two siblings voted for. It's puzzling to me how we all turned out so different in our views. My sister told me yesterday that I am the analytical one of the family. Maybe that's it. I analyze, they don't.
The whole thing, CMCM, is perplexing.... to the core... without question. Sometimes I wonder if there's a "secret mass psychosis experiment" going on in this country. We, collectively, have certainly lost touch with its core principles.
It’s a triple threat. Attempts to cause mass psychosis, being unaware of it, and not being strong enough to resist it.
I think being analytical, and eagerly analytical, indicates a curious mind. I think the best researchers, detectives and investigators are good because they’re curious and if somebody’s not curious I wonder if they are just wired differently.
My siblings and my own kids reflect varying degrees of trusting their parents and reacting against them. The most functional are introspective, quite self-critical, curious, and unlikely to ever see themselves as the smartest person in the room. Somehow, they can be all of that and still confident. I think the best results come from understanding 1) there is a God, and 2) it’s not me.
I’m vaguely aware of that research.
We need to use words that work. Like Man, Woman, Gender Confused, Not Normal, Commies . . .
Jim