Firstly, I have nothing against Mr. Adams. However, I don't value his craft or his opinions. I believe he is a smart and well accomplished man but one who is mistaken on certain issues. I will not comment on his Covid commentary as I am not well versed in the subject. I do think he has been accurate in pointing out some things and has been completely wrong on others. With regard to the war in Ukraine, where I differ significantly from him, he has been a hotbed for misinformation by spreading and amplifying obvious over the top propaganda and nonsense. Unless we are drawing from a different deck of cards, I do believe publicly available information is sufficient to give one a rudimentary picture of the fundamentals in Ukraine. Finally, I believe clinging on to some nonsense he and others have termed "the simulation" in attempts to explain the ebb and flow of things some of which may be beyond our grasp has blinded him.
For many within the "non-woke left" there seems to be a desire, as is in all of us, to do right and to elevate those whom we deem persecuted. Mr. Adams is an ardent supporter of the BLM movement (not the organisation) and with recent world events the plight of the Ukrainian people. The BLM movement is based on the mistaken belief that people of black ethnicity in America have a monopoly in suffering due to societal racism towards them. For many, support for Ukraine is based on the Premise that Ukraine is an innocent nation that got caught in the crosshairs of a madman keen on conquest. The optics may seem to suggest this but this is far from reality. This being said, our desires to do good cannot supersede a foundation of truth. In the event they do these desires become misguided as they are aimed at the wrong target. Not having a foundation of truth as a basis will have one lay down a foundation rooted in ideology. Ideologies have a tendency to push narratives which are then adhered to at the cost of objectivity and reason.
When the foundation one has in life is "the simulation" it does become hard to use this as an anchor because this "simulation" is whatever its beholder wants it to be. As emotions take charge our hearts enslave us to our passions. With nothing to tether us to reality other than this "simulation" our perception of events becomes warped. Earlier on, at the start of the BLM & Woke movements in America, these didn't sit right with me even though I didn't know much about either at the time. This is because identity cannot be rooted in superficial nonsense such as skin colour. This seemed to be the overall push of this movement. At the start of the war, caution was warranted in lending support to Ukraine as "people don't wake up in the morning and declare war on foreign nations for the sake of it." To justify this line of reasoning, lies about the invasion of Ukraine were manufactured whole cloth. Lies such as "Putin is a madman, Putin wants to create a new soviet union, this war was unprovoked, etc." Inconvenient truths about the origins of this war were obfuscated as it did seem that a bully had decided to wipe out an entire nation. Normal human beings don't do this. In order to explain this away the worst had to be invented and thought of the Russians and their leader(Viagra rape hoax). Eerily, similar propaganda tacitcs had been used against MAGA supporters in America.
More thoughts on ideological blindness here.
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