{"id":336758,"date":"2017-11-27T01:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T00:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-american-virtues\/"},"modified":"2017-11-27T01:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T00:22:33","slug":"the-american-virtues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-american-virtues\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Virtues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy biggest flaw and strength,\u201d says James Damore, \u201cmay be that I see things very differently than normal.\u201d This simple sentence reveals the essence of our fraying social fabric. For Damore\u2019s \u201cstrength\u201d\u2014his rare ability to think for himself and exercise independent judgment\u2014naturally leads to conflict with the majority, who, in their stupidity and weakness, must deem his virtue a \u201cflaw,\u201d a sign that he is not \u201cnormal.\u201d For most people\u2014those bundles of herd affect\u2014\u201ctruth,\u201d as they\u00a0<em>can<\/em>\u00a0understand 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.<\/p>\n<p>The former chess prodigy is now blacklisted from the big tech companies, despite having, in the language of the corporate rabble, a proven track record of success as a software engineer. In the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/nov\/16\/james-damore-google-memo-interview-autism-regrets?CMP=share_btn_fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>\u00a0from which I have quoted, we learn that Damore was diagnosed with a mild form of autism in his mid-20s. Paul Lewis, the liberal author of this subtle hatchet job, based\u2014where else\u2014in San Francisco, describes Damore\u2019s first failure to submit to the diversity idol.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Damore was on a two-day retreat for [Harvard] PhD students, which involved an annual tradition of inviting students to perform skits that lightly poked fun at professors. Damore\u2019s performance included an awkwardly delivered masturbation joke that offended some female students. Two professors later wrote to students apologising for the \u201cuneasiness, embarrassment or offense\u201d he had caused. Damore still finds it hard to see why his skit was objectionable, but accepts he may view it differently, \u201cbecause I\u2019m on the spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/blog\/buy-old-us-gold-coins\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=buy_old_us_coins\">Time to buy old US gold&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/11\/no_author\/conformity-and-manipulation-the-american-virtues\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy biggest flaw and strength,\u201d says James Damore, \u201cmay be that I see things very differently than normal.\u201d This simple sentence reveals the essence of our fraying social fabric. For Damore\u2019s \u201cstrength\u201d\u2014his rare ability to think for himself and exercise independent judgment\u2014naturally leads to conflict with the majority, who, in their stupidity and weakness, must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-336758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}