A Gem In A Pile Of Poop

 

He was a good person.
He would have made a good humanist.
Too bad that he was indoctrinated into false 
and harmful ideology at a young age,
as are most.

The Attitude Of Cultural Superiority: A Harmful Result

"Today, we take a look at the long, global history of invading peoples stealing the children of native families to be acculturated into the population of the invading force. Reasons can range from a tactic of war and an intention to commit genocide, usually based on an ideology of racial superiority, to concerns over shifting national demographics, simple economic dispossession, or all of the above."

Click on the link below for the grim details of a universal cultural tendency that must be directly attacked by science-based thinkers: 

Stolen Children is Stolen History, Heritage, and Culture 

Two Types Of Nationallsm

The terms "patriotism" and "nationalism" have gone through some interpretive changes in recent years, thanks to the Republican Party's adoption of an "America First" mantra. Beau of the Fifth Column YouTube channel clarifies the good, bad, and ugly of the terms. Click on the link below for details:

Let's talk about two types of nationalism....

This Is Not Education, It Is Ignorant Ideological Reaction To Such

"The new University of Austin seeks to be higher education’s premier institution of monetizing moral panics."

In recent years, there has been a movement by conservatives and some misguided liberals to discredit the US Higher Education system by cherry-picking some inappropriate constraint on free speech. One manifestation of this reactionary movement has been the formation of the so-called "Intellectual Dark Web." Click on the link below to see a new manifestation of this faulty ideology:

Do We Really Need an Anti-Woke University?

Is History Going To Repeat Itself?

Yes, politics is very polarized presently, with those who are globalist and want to cooperate with the rest of the world on one side and with those who are nationalistic and isolationistic on the other. History shows the effects of both of these ideologies. One is very dangerous for us all. Thus, the claims that both sides are the part of the problem we have is not supported by the evidence.

Trump is reviving the policies that once darkened the world

The Problem With Ideology

We all have biases.  Some are political, others are religious in nature.  A science-based thinker/skeptic, however, should be able to look objectively at his or her opinions on any matter and say to themselves, "Is my opinion based more on facts/evidence than those who disagree with me?"

Anger Is The Greatest Emotion Blocking Reason?

There is not doubt that there are many factors involved with resistance to changing a political, or any other, ideological view.  This article focuses on anger, but also looks at a wider spectrum of negative emotions and how they may effect acceptance of evidence.

http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/trump-rage_how_political_anger_clouds_our_thinking

Ideology Is The Problem

"As a philosophy scientific skepticism is also anti-ideology. It is a system of methods rather than a system of beliefs, and those methods include doubt, self-criticism, and the provisional nature of all knowledge. In fact, in its purest form scientific skepticism holds no beliefs, only the application of methods that form an approach to knowledge. It does not even require the rejection of the supernatural, only adherence to methodological naturalism because science cannot function otherwise. Scientific skepticism is agnostic toward any particular beliefs."

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/ideology-is-the-problem/