On 24/04/2021 18:35, Bev wrote:
...that T i m knows everything, is always correct in what he says and
that no amount of help and information will ever persuade him otherwise.

That way we can all save time and effort in responding to his requests
for information when he ignores it anyway as it does not fit with his pre-
conceived ideas.

Been on my filter for ages.

T i m has a bad case of 'One True Stick'-ness. The delusion that one
single personal *interpretation* of the world is, in fact, the
world-in-itself, as Kant put it.

It is a condition that many vaguely intelligent people suffer from. It
doesn't afflict the truly thick, because they know they are truly thick
and don't pay their minds as much attention. It doesn't afflict the
truly intelligent, because they realise that their worldview is, in the
end, only a view.

But it afflicts the middle orders and their third rate brains alarmingly...

Hence Marxism, Socialism, Veganism, Environmentalism, Wokeism, Religious
fundamentalism...


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"First, find out who are the people you can not criticise. They are your
oppressors."
- George Orwell