There are some people who are always on the hunt for good ideas. I salute those people. There is an ability which needs to be understood: the ability to SEPARATE an idea from the PERSON who spoke it or wrote it. I don’t care where I get a good idea. I don’t care if it happens to be in Hitler’s diary, or Stalin’s notes or one of Nero’s ancient declarations. I can take that idea and put it in the wash, clean it of all traces of the person who put it forward; and then I can look at the idea AS ITSELF and think about it and evaluate it. Then we have the morons. They revel in short cuts. Meaning they ALWAYS look at an idea in terms of who spoke it, and they ALWAYS judge the idea in those terms. As if there is nothing else that can be done. “HE said that? Then it must be stupid and deceiving. Because look who said it.” The morons think this is a clever and “advanced” form of logic. They say, “Look at the source.” They smile and believe they’re brilliant. Because they can’t do better. They’re utterly unable to examine and think about and analyze an idea FOR WHAT IT IS. That’s why they’re morons. They came out of homes and schools unprepared to think. So they settled on a substitute for thinking. Find out where an idea came from; then judge that person, then rate the idea based on the person. Again: THAT’S ALL THEY CAN DO. “Did you know the guy who wrote that book was once in jail for abusing his sister? Aha.” That’s supposed to be a PhD thesis. This used to be called an ad hominem argument, when people still knew what that meant. “You know, a lot of those guys who wrote the Constitution had SLAVES.” I see. So then we automatically know there are no good ideas in the Constitution. We aren’t allowed to read, understand, and think about those ideas IN AND OF THEMSELVES, because of SLAVES. To which the moron would reply: “That’s right. Because all the ideas would be deceptions.” Sure. Uh-huh. And if we dared to “break that rule” and actually examined the ideas, independent of who wrote them, we would be committing some sort of crime. When in fact, the egregious moron who made the rule is, just by chance, coincidentally, UNABLE TO read the ideas and think about them as ideas. “But…but some of those guys who wrote the Constitution violated its principles during their lives.” Yeah? So? I’m still waiting for you to comment intelligently on those principles themselves. Ad hominem is mis-education. It’s fake education. It’s nothing more than changing the subject. Yes, we can talk about SLAVES and the misdeeds of the Founders. We can have that discussion. But it’s another discussion. The first subject we were talking about, before you changed it was: WHAT ABOUT THE IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES IN THE CONSTITUTION? And now we’ve arrived at what I call THE SHIT-GLUE PROBLEM:... Subscribe to Jon Rappoport to read the rest.Become a paying subscriber of Jon Rappoport to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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