- 10 Mar 2017 00:25
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I was thinking about some passages in the bible earlier. Namely, not yoking an ox to a donkey, not mixing types of fabric in clothes, pearls before swine, holy things before dogs etc. To me, these things are all about class/caste mixing, or specifically why not to do it. An ox is significantly stronger than a donkey, mixing wool and linen together would probably look horrible, etc. These are just my interpretations, or ones I've read that I agree with, but this train of thought brought me to another conclusion.
Two common criticisms of liberals is how thoroughly they self-segregate (not just in colleges, but in high rises, suburbs, etc.) and how intellectually cowardly they are from a point of view.
It might be obvious to some people but I only just realized that there is a correlation between these phenomenon. The act of self-segregation is really an act of cowardice. Many of them have never tried (and never will try) to actually live in an inner city environment, or be among the people they praise/disdain. Some of them don't even take mass transportation, they go to private schools, they live behind a lot of security and/or physically far away from certain kinds of people. All of these things could be classified as acts of cowardice. After having physically run away from the degenerating reality in their countries, they also run away intellectually by rejecting the nature of the problems that they refuse to cope with personally.
As such, their tendency to segregate themselves and their intellectual behaviors are actually extensions of the same thing, a thorough lack of courage.
Getting back to the bible, their behaviors appear to be a corruption of these texts; or following the letter and not the spirit. They don't mix these things but they also refuse to criticize them or apply any discipline because a lack of criticism is the coward's version of compassion.
Two common criticisms of liberals is how thoroughly they self-segregate (not just in colleges, but in high rises, suburbs, etc.) and how intellectually cowardly they are from a point of view.
It might be obvious to some people but I only just realized that there is a correlation between these phenomenon. The act of self-segregation is really an act of cowardice. Many of them have never tried (and never will try) to actually live in an inner city environment, or be among the people they praise/disdain. Some of them don't even take mass transportation, they go to private schools, they live behind a lot of security and/or physically far away from certain kinds of people. All of these things could be classified as acts of cowardice. After having physically run away from the degenerating reality in their countries, they also run away intellectually by rejecting the nature of the problems that they refuse to cope with personally.
As such, their tendency to segregate themselves and their intellectual behaviors are actually extensions of the same thing, a thorough lack of courage.
Getting back to the bible, their behaviors appear to be a corruption of these texts; or following the letter and not the spirit. They don't mix these things but they also refuse to criticize them or apply any discipline because a lack of criticism is the coward's version of compassion.
Orb Team Re-Assemble!