Gottman’s Four Horsemen Running Amok
Millions of us are now enthusiastically employing tactics against each other (Gottman’s “four horsemen": criticism, contempt, stonewalling, and defensiveness) that are guaranteed to destroy marriages.
Millions of us are now enthusiastically employing tactics against each other (Gottman’s “four horsemen": criticism, contempt, stonewalling, and defensiveness) that are guaranteed to destroy marriages.
Voltaire once said, “I wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it.”
I'm all in with this idea, as long as YOU are willing to reciprocate.
Recent tweet from the rapper Zuby:
If an innocent person is brutally murdered and you need to know the 'race' and/or religion of the perpetrator and victim, before deciding if you should sympathise or not... Then you're part of the problem.
— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) June 24, 2020
Barack Obama was preparing us for the current onslaught of Wokeness:
There's so much intellectual incoherence and outright insanity out there in the world. Yes, Twitter is a double-edged sword, but I've been hanging in there these days, using Twitter to help keep my head from exploding. But I'm also having this recurring thought: "If there is a God, I'm assuming that He/She/They are about to hit the reboot button for the universe." Here's a few of today's Twitter happenings:
In reaction to the Trump unhinged and xenophobic speech in Tulsa, "The Lincoln Project" tweeted: "Donald Trump told his administration to slow down testing. Now, 122,000 Americans are dead and coronavirus is rising in dozens of states. This is his legacy."
The rapper Zuby tweeted this response after learning about the "Black Only" zone being maintained in CHAZ/CHOP, Seattle: "Because racial segregation is obviously progressive."
Because we apparently have the inalienable right to tear down public art that offends us, Shaun King (1M followers) tweets: "All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down. They are a gross form white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down." That leads to this tweet by Finbad the Failer: "You want to destroy religious objects? Does this include Michaelanangelo’s Pieta and other masterpieces from the Renaissance?"
Finally, on Twitter today I learned that Author James R. Flynn was about to publish his newest book, "In Defense of Free Speech: The University as Censor," in which he "critically examines the way universities censor their teaching, how student activism tends to censor the opposing side and how academics censor themselves." Well, Flynn's book was cancelled by the publisher because, according to the publisher, the book might stir up too much trouble. Claire Lehmann (Founding Editor of Quillette) tweets: "For those unaware of who Flynn is: he is the strongest critic of what's called the "hereditarian hypothesis," and the discoverer of the Flynn effect (the observed increase of IQ scores across generations, likely due to improved nutrition & education)."