Annoyance, you’re still dodging the question. Joe didn’t ask whether or not in your opinion everyone is a useless prole, he asked why it’s useful to make people feel like that. Your notion that “social cohesion is the enemy of rationality” was best debunked, I think by pjeby’s point here:
Annoyance, your argument has devolved into inanity. If you don’t want to popularly cultivate rationality then you disagree with one of the core tenets of this community. It’s in the second paragraph of the “about” page:
“Less Wrong is devoted to refining the art of human rationality—the art of thinking. The new math and science deserves to be applied to our daily lives, and heard in our public voices.”
Your circular word games do no good for this community.
Annoyance, you’re still dodging the question. Joe didn’t ask whether or not in your opinion everyone is a useless prole, he asked why it’s useful to make people feel like that. Your notion that “social cohesion is the enemy of rationality” was best debunked, I think by pjeby’s point here:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/za/a_social_norm_against_unjustified_opinions/rrk
more flies with honey and all that.
I don’t want to catch flies.
Annoyance, your argument has devolved into inanity. If you don’t want to popularly cultivate rationality then you disagree with one of the core tenets of this community. It’s in the second paragraph of the “about” page:
“Less Wrong is devoted to refining the art of human rationality—the art of thinking. The new math and science deserves to be applied to our daily lives, and heard in our public voices.”
Your circular word games do no good for this community.