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Op dinsdag 2 juni 2009 13:10 schreef TitusPullo het volgende:[..]
Maar hij doet het voorkomen alsof alles een kwestie van smaak is, als ik het wel heb.
I myself think it's partially attributable to something I call the "Doink...doink...doink" theory. Let me explain:
A short time ago I attended a school talent show. During the evening, two different kids played the xylophone. Kid A played a song of his own composition; it was really complex, full of key changes, and had a difficult rhythm. At the end the audience gave him a rousing ovation. Kid B basically used the xylophone as a background percussion instrument while the rest of his class sang; he banged it three times very slowly, paused, repeated, waited a few minutes in silence, then played his three notes again. Doink...doink...doink. No one really noticed him.
For some reason, my daughter Ashley would rather die than say anything complimentary about Kid A. So after the concert, she very pointedly exclaims, "Wasn't Kid B great on the xylophone?" When I mentioned Kid A, she insisted that what Kid B played was far more complicated. When I asked her to explain her position, she finally stated "Hey, it's my opinion. And in my opinion, Kid B's song was more complicated than Kid A's." So I took the opportunity to instruct her that reality doesn't work like that. Yeah sure, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and all opinions deserve respect, yada yada. But some things simply aren't matters of opinion. In the real world, facts trump opinions every time. Thus a snappy, jazzy tune will always beat "doink...doink...doink," irrespective of opinions.
I think a good percentage of CT'ers are stuck in "doink...doink...doink" mode. They think reality is governed by opinions and points of view. Under such a system, the opinion of a well-informed expert who has studied all the facts bears no more weight than that of a 15 year old boy who's basing his views on wishful thinking and fantasy. It's like we're all debating some topic where facts and reality play no part, like whether Batman could kick Spiderman's ass. To twoofers, it's all indistiguishable from comic books and role-playing games.
The extreme example of that was that CT'er who came here and told us we were all government agents or something. Think of it: we know we're not agents, so you'd think there'd be absolutely no point in trying to convince us we were, but that didn't stop him. I was initially struck numb by the presumption, until I viewed it through the "doink...doink...doink" filter. I think this person honestly believed that his opinion was of equal validity to ours, even when the topic was ourselves!
So that's my latest theory in trying to explain at least one facet of why some twoofers do and say the things they do. They have yet to learn that the universe isn't all one big matter of opinion. As a consequence, they're still playing "doink...doink...doink" on the mental xylophone, while the rest of us are riffing on Mozart.