Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Happy Tuesday my friends! More goodness from Mr. Felts. Some good material on communication. One note on the treasury of quotes, Mr. Felts likes to include his own nuggets of wisdom from time to time on certain topics. They might not rank up there with ageless wisdom, but time will tell. On to communication!

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him. - John Morley On Compromise

It is better to debate a question without settling it, than to settle it without debate. - Joseph Joubert Pensées of Joubert

There is no such way to … give defense to strange and absurd doctrines, as to guard them round about with legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefined words. - John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth. - John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The first two quotes certainly seem timely. We live in a new chapter of censorship and silencing others. I suspect it has always been with us at every stage of human history & society, it just varies who who does the silencing and how society as a whole thinks about it. Nothing shuts up a person like death, but you risk creating martyrs for the cause and of course making others wonder if the cause is worth a fight.

We enjoy settling questions without debate, well at least the CABAL does. It's adherents probably don't mind, but then there is the rest of us. The great mass of the passive and then there are the questioners, disputers and outliers. One can hope that those who consider themselves among the later groups are growing, but distractions and avoidance of life is too easy. The red pilling, the awakening, the end of the perfume on the crap-show that is modern life is a moment of realization that we can hope more will experience. It does not mean that more people become conservative, but rather one develops some active sense of rationality and common sense that allows the conservatives, liberals and engaged centrists to work out a society and culture that is functional and prosperous. When the extremes take over culture and society suffer. The great sleeping middle, the CENTER, that doesn't care about the world beyond their work, home and glow screens probably has allowed too many on the fringe LEFT & RIGHT to gain ground. Currently the RIGHT is marginal, but you would swear they are popping out everywhere from the reports by the Enemedia & Big Tech. When you are so marinated in the LEFT, anything right of you probably looks RIGHT.

I remember reading Locke in philosophy class. I think he would be shocked at the current state of higher education, now an oxymoron, and the state of public discourse, which has eroded into the tribalism and team sports we all hear about on a daily basis. If you can't agree on terms, then you shouldn't waste your time talking with someone. See the Matt Walsh debate on Dr. Phil. No logic - lots of feeling, it makes anyone with an active brain hurt when you spend too much trying to make sense of it. Obscure, doubtful and undefined words - welcome to the world of so many university created and incubated "isms." "I'm clearly smarter, more educated than you, because you can't comprehend what I am espousing." - Thus spaketh Professor Crackpot.

Showing a person the error of their ways is only a cracking of the shell, but not the freeing of thought. Oddly enough, the freeing of thought often and sometimes only is accomplished by some emotional factor as well. It seems that many of the recently red pilled came to that realization that the others they had been encouraged to hate and dismiss turned out to be decent people, they may not agree on everything, in fact they might passionately disagree on some basics and fundamentals, but they can disagree. The CULTS, left or right, don't allow disagreement. Today's advocate is tomorrow's scapegoat if their adherence wavers. Few people are hated more by the CULT than emancipated members. They know the inner workings and thinking's of the cult, and that ups the odds of more red-pilling, awakening, and smelling of the crapola.

Possession of the truth - many smaller truths, steps along the path of reality and rationality, lead to the appropriation of the greater truths that make life meaningful, that provide a landscape for potential understanding and communion with another. Happy Tuesday my friends!

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