Is Trump a functional illiterate?

Reg, when i have concluded my readings and pondered weak and weary i shall add my thoughts.

Enco,

Math for sure requires reasoning and more reasoning. Music or the arts in general can be an aptitude seemingly divorced from general intelligence. Witness the musical or artistic savants who may appear in other regards dumb as a rock. Although i suppose great composers are a different case. And someone like DaVinci in his art demonstrated…[Read more]

Reg,

Trump’s tarriffs and the reaction of both domestic and foreign markets to them are definitely a problem. They don’t even make sense from Trump’s own brain salad/word salad pseudo-thinking (e.g. he’s wanting high tariffs of, if I recall, 25 percent on Canada and Mexico over allowing Fentanyl to cross the border, yet Trump only wants to tax…[Read more]

Jake,

It is so natural to lash out at the morons. lately i have been feeling that for the lefty’s. I just don’t know other than a coterie of thinkers who is not stupid. To me intelligence is critical thinking. Math, music, mechanical aptitudes are talents. Not same as general intelligence. Beliefs interfere with reason. Beliefs are the death of…

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@jakelafort – Feel free to add to this post, if you want.

Looks interesting.

Thanks Reg.

I have recently read both of these books and I would recommend them:

The Knowledge Machine – Michael Strevens. Link.

and

Free Thinking – Simon McCarthy Jones. Link.

Second act of Trump is even more chaotic and mind bending than i would have thought. As things unravel i am very curious to find out whether hard core Trump cultists alter their position from at his feet to at his throat.

It is so natural to lash out at the morons. lately i have been feeling that for the lefty’s. I just don’t know other than a…[Read more]

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