{"id":2641,"date":"2021-03-29T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/29\/could-i-pass-an-ideological-turing-test\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:02:09","slug":"could-i-pass-an-ideological-turing-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/29\/could-i-pass-an-ideological-turing-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Could I Pass an Ideological Turing Test?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 11 January 2017 I wrote a post<\/a> that begins:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Could I present liberal-left ideas in such a way that the reader could not tell that I was not a liberal?  Let me take a stab at this with respect to a few 'hot' topics.  This won't be easy.  I will have to present liberal-left ideas as plausible while avoiding all mention of their flaws.  And all of this without sarcasm, parody, or irony.  Each of these subheadings could be expanded into a separate essay.  And of course there are many more subheadings that could be added.  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The post<\/a> attracted some very good comments. The consensus was that I flunked.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Four years have past since I made that entry. That is a long time in this age of social, political, and technological hyperkineticism. If I were to rewrite it today it would have to reflect the increasingly delusional quality of leftist 'thought' as we jerk<\/em>, not merely accelerate, toward our cultural collapse. <\/span><\/p>\n

Jerk?<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to 'progressives,' our 'progress' toward social and cultural collapse seems not be proceeding at a constant speed, but to be accelerating<\/em>.  But perhaps a better metaphor from the lexicon of physics is jerking<\/em>.  After all, our 'progress' is jerkwad-driven.  No need to name names.  You know who they are.<\/span><\/p>\n

From your college physics you may recall that the first derivative of position with respect to time is velocity, while the second derivative is acceleration.  Lesser known is the third derivative: jerk.  (I am not joking; look it up.)  If acceleration is the rate of change of velocity, jerk, also known as jolt, is the rate of change of acceleration.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you were studying something in college, and not majoring in, say, Grievance Studies, then you probably know that all three, velocity, acceleration, and jerk are vectors, not scalars.  Each has a magnitude and a direction.  This is why a satellite orbiting the earth is constantly changing its velocity despite its constant speed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 'progressive' jerk too has its direction:  the end of civilization as we know it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Jerkwad\"<\/a>
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On 11 January 2017 I wrote a post that begins: Could I present liberal-left ideas in such a way that the reader could not tell that I was not a liberal?  Let me take a stab at this with respect to a few 'hot' topics.  This won't be easy.  I will have to present liberal-left … Continue reading “Could I Pass an Ideological Turing Test?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,43,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-political-language","category-political-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}