America's HOA President
Katherine Mayer, CEO of NPR, is the prototypical postmodernist progressive living at the intersection of Muggeridge's Law and the Dunning Kruger Effect.
Our society is completely ridiculous now.
NPR whistleblower Uri Berliner confirms everything we believed about NPR's leftism and the clueless CEO goes out and completely confirms it, all the while lacking any self-awareness that she was proving herself the perfect example of what Berliner wrote about.
Malcom Muggeridge, the great British journalist, author and satirist, once said:
“We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.”
Muggeridge's Law is being publicly displayed daily now.
But that's only the half of it.
There's the Dunning Kruger Effect (aka the DKE).
The DKE is defined as a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.
I think the DKE has a corollary that is explained as the cognitive bias in which people with limited or no awareness of the truth overestimate what they believe is the truth.
The NPR CEO, Katherine Mayer, is the best example of the intersection of Muggeridge's Law and Dunning Kruger I have seen this week.
Unfortunately for us, I limit my vision to this week, largely because this is the type of person leading academia, every "social justice" movement and a large portion of the Democrat caucus in Congress.
They are ideological zombies.
They live.
They vote.
And they have power.
This is the Walking Dead in real life.
Mayer is the prototypical example of today's postmodernist progressive from central casting. Holy Moly, everything that has been revealed about her in the past few days proves unequivocally she is an AWFL, an affluent, white, female liberal - an attitude that explains the vast majority of the Democrat Party these days – and a perfect avatar for the Woke subset of our society.
Katherine Mayer is the HOA president of America.
She believes there is a truth (aka her truth) that confirms all of her beliefs and that "truth" insulates her from anything running contrary to that "truth" - in defiance of all evidence to the contrary. As these radicals are wont to do, while she loudly praises the truth, she really has no use for it, claiming in a TED talk before becoming the High Priestess of NPR that:
"Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that is getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done. That is not to say that the truth doesn't exist or to say that the truth isn't important. Clearly the search for the truth has led us to do great things... [but] one reason we have such glorious chronicles to the human experience and all forms of culture is because we acknowledge there are many different truths. I'm certain that the truth exists for you. And probably for the person sitting next to you. But this may not be the same truth."
Dear Sweet Lord.
You listen to this and you should understand that postmodernists can't understand the difference between truth and opinion.
The real truth is that if you view truth as a straight line, there are narrow zones on either side of that line where different variants of the truth can exist, these variants are called opinions, and opinions surrender their existence when they are proven not to be true - but until they are proven wrong, they can be mistaken for the actual truth.
Par for the course, instead of being remotely curious of why a twenty-five year veteran of NPR would expose the bias that has metastasized within NPR, Mayer simply sees his view as a threat, therefore completely untrue, and instead of even meeting with him to try to vet what he wrote, she gets the NPR HR Nazis to suspend him.
Proving, once again, that postmodernist progressivism is a religion, poor Uri has been designated an apostate and excommunicated from the Vatican of progressive leftism, NPR headquarters, by the High Priestess herself.
As Edith Ann used to say from her Laugh-In rocking chair:
“And that’s the truth…pffffft!”
Another quote by Maher that is appropriate here: “In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that is getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.” 🙄😲 so common ground is found in falsehoods? Or perhaps “feelings”? Yeah, that will work.
While I kind of prefer to think they're doing this stuff deliberately (and no doubt some are), I've come to the conclusion that most are just plain clueless. I just read Bernard Goldberg's "Bias" (older, but still relevant, sadly), and his description is pretty much that they live in such a bubble they don't even know what they don't know and can't see it when it's pointed out.