The brain doesn’t do everything

No matter how smart a person is, they will never get over their ideological bias if they have one.

There is something I call “the transitive property of magnitude”. It posits that if a person is excellent at one thing, they might as well be expected to succeed at another. This is the basis on which Hollywood stars talk to us about climate change: if they are such good actors, they must also know what they are talking about regarding the carbon dioxide released in the back of their private jets. The problem with this theory is that it usually doesn’t work. Superstar guard Isiah Thomas was a bad coach. GOAT Michael Jordan was mediocre during his brief professional baseball career. While there are people who have been truly successful in many fields, such as doctors who became exceptional investors or Donald Trump, who has arguably succeeded both in business and as president, the general trend is that People are more successful when they stick to their area of ​​expertise.

You can’t call Neil deGrasse Tyson an idiot. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a master’s degree from Texas, and a Ph.D. from Colombia. He is considered a world-class astrophysicist and accomplished author. With such academic clout behind him, it would seem very surprising that he sometimes said some truly strange things. In a very recent exchange with Bill Maher, he casually asserted that men have no physical advantage over women in sports, which Maher flatly rejected. Tyson’s argument served as the basis for allowing men to participate in women’s sports. This reasoning is consistent with his previous statements, stating that a person could wake up one day and report feeling 80% female, the next day being something else.

Now, if we look only at science, which is the seat of Tyson’s expertise, everything he said is nonsense. With few exceptions, almost everyone in the world is either an XX woman or an XY man. And the direct comparison between strength, speed and endurance clearly favors men. One day I was looking for information on the subject and discovered that the fastest woman in an Olympic 50 meter race would not have made it to the final eight in the parallel men’s competition. Men’s records in all sports are faster or better than those of women involved in identical activities. So, with the above in mind, how could an accomplished scientist publicly make such insane claims?

There are two possible answers. The first is that he knows the truth, but to remain in good standing with left-wing organizations, professors, students, and funders, he must speak frankly. He knows that if he speaks like a scientist and not a card-carrying left-winger, he risks endangering his personal safety, his job, his funding, and his position as a self-proclaimed social justice warrior. There is an alternative explanation. While one might assume that a Ph.D. If the physicist knows that men are faster and stronger than women, and therefore it is unfair for them to be admitted into women’s competitions, he may be so motivated by an ideology that he rejects the obvious. In our time, we have an extraordinary number of people on the left who simply put reality aside and live in a fantasy world of their own making. “The border is closed.” “There is no inflation.” “Joe Biden is sharp as a tack.” “Donald Trump is a fascist.” “Donald Trump is an anti-Semite.” This list is obviously in no way exhaustive. But every claim above is belied by reality: people are crossing the border in droves, Joe Biden suffers from dementia, and Donald Trump has Jewish grandchildren he loves. He also showed no fascist tendencies during his first term. The left, because their ideology is completely foreign to what we perceive as reality, must close their minds to the world around them, so that the world does not question their deeply held beliefs.

After Donald Trump’s large victory in the Electoral College and the popular vote, voices were briefly raised on the left to break with orthodoxy. “Maybe Democrats focused too much on trans people.” “Maybe they should have closed the border.” “Maybe they should have realized that people can’t afford food and gas.” These voices were either silenced or silenced. As many conservative commentators have said, the left has learned nothing from Donald Trump’s improvement in every voting category and in every state. They cannot abandon their driving ideology that leads to men winning women’s trophies and dangerous criminals returning to the streets in no time. If the left let in a little light on reality, their entire system would collapse. This is why they are doubling down on their efforts to protect illegal aliens and trying to provoke a Third World War. The left must stay in its cocoon or change. They don’t want to change. Instead of accepting that people see the world more like Republicans, many Democratic officials are preparing to fight the new administration over the deportation of illegal aliens and just about anywhere else they can glance at Republicans and dozens of millions of people who voted for. them.

So where does their groupthink lead them? Just look at England where police hand out coffee to Hamas supporters while arresting anyone who might interfere with a pro-Hamas rally. Police arrest retirees for Facebook posts and judges send offenders away for two years or more. Woke is like one of Voldemort’s slithering snakes, which can go anywhere. Donald Trump and his team must defuse the left and prevent it from causing further damage on the national stage and later, state by state. The ideological left is dangerous for everyone, as evidenced by the cascade of errors, lies and distortions it has peddled during the Covid emergency. Look at California, where it’s almost legal to steal up to $950 per store per day without threat of arrest or prosecution. Look to New York to see people released from prison to commit murder or robbery again. Because left-wing ideology is based on Marxist goals and not democratic principles or fundamental reality, the left is destroying America and everything it stands for.

Donald Trump and his team have a lot to do. One thing they must add is the weakening of the ideological left at every turn. Many people voted for Trump and other Republicans because they realized that Kalama and his gang saw no problem in high prices, open borders, weak overseas positions, and heavy surveillance. increase in what people say online. Trump’s numbers have increased with every age and group, because people are tired of the left’s wokeness and destruction of norms. The new administration will have to ensure that the left loses power in its strongholds like New York and California. If leaders don’t want to play along with Washington, then they should see their federal dollars dry up. Californians are already looking to Nevada to see what it’s like to live in a low-tax, less expensive environment. It’s time to turn the dial to 11 to get blue state voters to abandon their woke politicians once and for all.