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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I remember you not liking the idea of post-modernism cause you're offended by the idea of there being no truth or something. I think the idea that there are no concrete narratives to define things is something that you can't grasp because you can't grasp abstract thought and so you lash out to preserve your limited understanding of things.
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I don't know if it's that he can't understand abstract thought but I completely get what you're talking about. To me it's that he has hard time understanding nuance. Like with the IQ debate he had a hard time understanding how nuanced influences could be. "Well if everybody is promised the same reward then all of the scores would rise at the same level there for the people that scored higher than others before would score higher than others still." Uh, no. His comment on natural selection shows that he doesn't really understand the concept very well either or how random evolution actually is. It's almost autistic as if he has a subtle form of Asperger's or something. Or maybe he suffers permanent brain damage from drug use. Maybe overstepping a little to suggest it. I'm no professional.