Deep Thoughts
Conformity and Manipulation: The American Virtues
by Christopher DeGroot
November 24, 2017
“My biggest flaw and strength,†says James Damore, “may be that I see things very differently than normal.†This simple sentence reveals the essence of our fraying social fabric. For Damore’s “strengthâ€â€”his rare ability to think for himself and exercise independent judgment—naturally leads to conflict with the majority, who, in their stupidity and weakness, must deem his virtue a “flaw,†a sign that he is not “normal.†For most people—those bundles of herd affect—“truth,†as they can understand it, is nothing but a means for their personal interests, which are mostly material and, beyond that, trivial. Hence their utter inability to understand a man like James Damore and their natural disdain for any principled truth-teller.
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