Video later. Stay tuned.
A lot of the time, people will reject a line of reasoning simply because they do not like the conclusion it leads to.
This is perfectly human of us. We’re not fact gathering robots, we’re people, and we have emotional needs which sometimes take priority.
But it’s not intellectually honest.
Not liking the conclusion has no bearing on whether the reasoning (or its conclusion) is valid or not. Something is either true or it isn’t. Emotions don’t change that.
This phenomenon really shows itself when, in the course of debate, someone says “That can’t be true!”.
All they are really saying is, “I don’t want it to be true!”.
The truly intellectually honest person follows the evidence wherever it goes and accepts whatever conclusion it supports.
But like I said, we are human, and need to protect ourselves emotionally, and so we reject emotionally damaging conclusions even when they are obviously true.
Even the most intellectually honest of us are guilty of reacting to a bad conclusion by subjecting the reasoning that led to it very, very closely, looking for any flaws that would justify rejecting the conclusion.
I certainly have done it.
Suddenly, we are incredibly fussy about logic.
And that’s bad enough, but of course, if we like the conclusion, the situation is reversed. We will overlook glaring logical inconsistencies and errors in thinking if the line of reasoning leads us to somewhere we want to be.
Suddenly, we’re not fussy at all.
Dealing with the raging sleepies yet again. This is growing quite tiresome.
The only cure I can think of is to just keep sleeping until I am frigging done. No matter how long it takes. Just stay in bed until I wake up feeling rested.
But that could take a very long time and I got things to do.
Plus it would fuck up my schedule. I am awake and blogging now because this is the (approximate) time when I eat lunch. That’s part of my daily routine.
And I am not good at routine. By default, I improvise. Sticking to a rigid routine sounds downright stultifying to me and there’s not a lot I can do about that.
So I tend to cling to whatever regularity I can actually maintain.
Because despite my dislike of schedules and routine, I also crave stability and predictability. Somehow, the universe is perfectly happy for these things of both be true in me at the same time,.
It seems like I have a lot of needs that my own nature precludes me from fulfilling.
And that kinda sucks.
Oh. And I beat the main mission of Assassin’s Creed : Unity this morning.
Awesome game. Exactly the sort of “open world full of quests” game I love. Plus I love being able to climb and jump and otherwise get around my environment like that.
It gives me such a feeling of freedom and power.
Plus I loved that the game was so very, very French.
More after the break.
OK, first off, here’s the video. Sort of.
That’s the first rough edit of it, anyhow. I was all set to break it down to just the bits that were needed, one hundred percent content, but shortly after I started editing the video I got this splitting frigging headache right smack dab in the center of my forehead and it was all I could do to finish the rough cut before the pain forced me to stop.
Ergo, what you see above is not my best work, which is why it is an unlisted video. Hopefully, I will produce a finished version, with text screens and music and a much finer grain editing job, tomorrow afternoon.
I really, really hope that my headache was a one off thing. Given the location, it was most likely some form of eye strain headache, and that is not good.
If I get a headache every time I edit video, then I might have to re-evaluate my plans. Making videos is what I was planning to do with my life for now, and that means editing them all by myself.
I highly doubt I could convince someone to edit them for me. And even if I did, I doubt I would trust them to do it right.
Luckily, there’s plenty of ways to get around eye strain issues. I could change the color settings on the UI of Video Studio, I could experiment with editing video under different lighting conditions, I could see about getting clip-on anti-glare glasses, and so on.
So it’s solvable.
By the way, do you like my video? I know it’s very rough, but you get the idea, right? I want to prick the conscience of American libertarians into actually living up to their stated ideals and sticking up for the freedoms they supposedly cherish.
And if they don’t want to do it, I would really, really like to know the reasons why.
After all, the jackbooted thugs of the federal government are as we speak violating the God-given rights of sovereign individuals. This is the exact scenario they have been warning us about all these years.
What possible reason could they have for failing to spring into action?
That’s why I made sure to speak in the strong, emotional, supercharged way that goes from one powerful symbol to another that they respond so well to.
I wanted them to have absolutely nothing to object to in what I said except for the fact that I mentioned Donald Trump.
That way, they have to either agree with me, or admit that it was never about freedom, liberty, justice, or the American Way. They were always statist thugs willing to abandon every American ideal ever conceived in order for their fascist wet dreams to come true where they can finally retreat from the adult world they never could handle and hide away in a society that by every possible measure is worse…. but it sure is easy to understand, and that’s what makes it all worth it.
And the fact that they get to hoot and holler like monkeys while their fellow Americans get brutalized is the most fun part for them.
Finally, they get to stop pretending to be civilized and get to be the dark-hearted heahen savages they have always been.
Enjoy it while it lasts, you goddamned apes.
Society will be coming for you soon enough.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.