{"id":86494,"date":"2023-11-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86494"},"modified":"2023-11-21T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T15:05:08","slug":"submitted-without-comment-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86494","title":{"rendered":"Submitted Without Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had a long drive over the weekend.  I spent it listening to Jordan Peterson.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I caught an excellent episode with Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation.   It&#8217;s a sprawling 97 minute discussion of everything conservatism is, everything it should be, where it falls short, how to make up the difference&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the episode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: 397. 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A higher education is, as Peterson notes, supposed to upset one&#8217;s adolescent stupidity, and thereby teach you how to think critically about <em>all <\/em>your, and everyone&#8217;s, preconceptions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roberts pointed out that in the traditional University system &#8211; especially in Europe &#8211; the goals are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To have an intense, probing debate without a whole lot of regard for what the various parties <em>feel <\/em>about the issue&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;while observing some standards in the argument &#8211; the basics of human respect, not to mention logic and social decorum.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, call me a dreamer, but that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve always shot for on this blog, and in the comments.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll come back to that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve had plenty of feedback about the disabled comment section.  I do appreciate it.  I miss having it turned on as well.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;ll be back.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in this past week, I&#8217;ve done a bunch of thinking.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86423\">As I pointed out last week<\/a>, I&#8217;ve always treated &#8220;managing&#8221; the comments with a certain amount of idealism.  <em>Pragmatic <\/em>idealism &#8211; I also barely have enough free time to <em>read <\/em>the comments, much less play manager &#8211; but idealism nonetheless.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I figured &#8220;we&#8217;re all adults&#8221;.  I asked a bunch of adults, respectfully, to mind their manners and treat <em>each other <\/em>with the same basic respect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It didn&#8217;t seem like that big an ask at the time.  And for about 20 years, I was mostly right.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, let&#8217;s be honest &#8211; this blog is more a personal exercise in self-discipline and thought-development than &#8220;citizen journalism&#8221;, to say nothing of a money-making venue.  I&#8217;ve been amazed to <em>have <\/em>an audience for a couple of decades, now &#8211; and, yes, blessed.  Much of what I genuinely like about my life, particularly my social life, springs from the connections this blog started for me.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I figured the input should match the output. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there&#8217;s been more than enough output for me to make it worth making things work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a long drive over the weekend. I spent it listening to Jordan Peterson. I caught an excellent episode with Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation. 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