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The Impeachment Trial of President Donald J. Trump
Capco replied to Nanker's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Copy/Pasted from another forum. ========= It’s like a new age of self interest. Where once we held our leaders to high standards of personal excellence, articulated through public performance and verbal expression of ideals we ourselves might not feel we could achieve, the new desire is to have leaders who are as weak as ourselves because it comforts our desire to feel we’re as good as they are in not achieving lofty goals of excellence. This fits perfectly with the meteoric rise of social media in reinforcing the authority the general public grants to having an opinion. It’s no longer that holding any view requires we arm that perspective with fact and understanding. Simply having an opinion is enough even if one is completely ignorant of the source and knowledge of the subject matter at hand. The hand in hand rise of false information masquerading as fact and the lack of desire to dispute it for further evolution of our opinion (and perhaps the DESIRE to change it in light of new information) perfectly aligns with our satisfaction at reinforcing our tribal comfort. Lackluster standards of leadership are like comfort food, easy to adopt and not taxing on our already highly stressed lives. In fact the exact opposite is true: lackluster standards reduce stress by demanding less of us. Hard work and due diligence requires effort. High standards of excellence in leadership promotes more effort on behalf of its followers to mimic the same. Screw that. I can be average (or worse) and content in that existence and happily secure in my self satisfaction because my leader (the highest office of leadership my nation presents) is a shining example of it’s sufficiency. This is the magic of smugness, the total comfort and satisfaction at being good enough without any need to recognize that perhaps I might be wrong or could improve more. “Haters gonna hate” grew out of this sense. It now serves as justification to see criticism as a quality to be ignored, rather than analysed. Self satisfaction is a badge of how right you are. Trump is perhaps the pinnacle of achievement in how obviously desirable this mindset is for those that want to feel that reinforcement of their self absorbed nature is a good thing. They don’t have to try hard to be a shining example of great leadership and excellence in seeking more idealistic standards of comportment simply because the highest standard of leadership has been lowered to a point where not seeking such things is a more successful standard of behavior than working to achieve them is. It’s a pretty much “done to death” meme but Idiocracy is only moving from black comedy to documentary because it voiced a human condition we find it difficult to avoid. If no effort gets results then nobody will bother making any effort. If the President of the United States of America can be a lackluster piece of garbage in terms of intellect, due diligence, compassion, and comportment, then me being much the same is clearly good enough. This is the secret of his power over the electorate, and it’s frightening (to me) in some degree how fast it has become the de facto state of affairs with respect to perpetuating such low standards as ideals for the population to worship. Trump is not the real problem … the real problem is that he represents the general state of the population that believes he’s a good example. If Trump is an unspectacular leader then we are an unspectacular people holding him up in that office. Being unspectacular is much easier than being great. Mediocrity is like fast food. Easy, easy, easy. -
This weeks look (laugh) at the Power Rankings
Capco replied to SlimShady'sSpaceForce's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
8-10 is where they belong imo.