Dems have destroyed every urban area they "rule". Now that Dems have the Presidency and both Houses I suspect the destruction will simply amplify at greater rates while we taxpayers get to foot the bill for the utter inability to understand basic accounting.

At the same time Dem governors have gutted the rural areas of any good paying jobs unless you work in the medical field. Guess they figure we move to the country to rot and die.

@toronto_Georgia

The key I think is when I said emotionally crippled. To me large segments of the population are emotionally retarded. They never matured into responsible adults. That includes most of the intelligensia. It's why farm boy Victor Hanson sounds more in touch than say Sam Harris. If you listen carefully even people like Douglas Murray sound a bit unhinged.

When you look at exceptional intelligence people you often find a hidden anti social aspect. In part driven by how genetics work. It's always a trade off you get nothing for nothing. If you are bright you see the hopelessness of the human condition if you have the right genes it doesn't make you bitter or narcistic and nihilistic.

That is not to be confused with some sort of deeper truth. I'm highly suspicious of truth seekers. Just give me the facts. I will then subjectively apply them like everyone else. Your truth like your identity has to be negotiated with society. In a healthy society those negotiations take place freely with the expectation of minimal enforcement of norms. That is impossible in the current environment because freewill has been stripped away by the intellectual class leaving people without agency. The counter balance to freewill is punishment. Without punishment for transgression agency is as impossible as without freewill. Until yesterday this was common knowledge.

@wolfhnd My sentiments exactly. Was just saying to hubby how maturity is truly rare these days. I would say emotionally crippled to me translates to the immaturity of a child who has not learned natural consequences, true responsibility of self to both self and the whole of society.

I'm wondering if our entire education system is not complicit in this loss. When one is taught from the time they enter school that regurgitation is the means to success then all achievement and mores are based on external "authorities" as opposed to one's internal compass.