The Australian Crown

Far too many well-educated, intelligent people do not really think about issues they support or oppose.  The Australian Crown is a good example.  The Republican Movement is driven by the self-assigned ‘intelligentsia’.  These people are often in positions of power and influence and on matters pertaining to their particular fields of expertise they are paragons of rationality and are elevated to a higher Academic Degree for that very reason.  However, on other Social Issues, about which they have no greater expertise than the vast majority of other people who do not have academic excellence, exceptional ability to do well on Intelligence Tests and Exams, their opinions are motivated by Emotions and Sub-Conscious mental activity.  

Dunning-Kruger is the name given to the frequent behaviour of someone who is actually very ignorant about a subject believing themselves to know everything there is to know about it and present themselves as confident experts on the subject, prepared to fight against those who disagree with them, who might actually be people who do know more of the real truth.  There is also a tendency amongst people with expertise in a narrow specialisation to believe that their authority in that case can be extended to an equivalent authority in everything, even though they share a lack of knowledge and a propensity to visceral beliefs with everyone else.

When New Whig FaceBook page started, one of its repeated themes was support for the Australian Crown.  Perhaps it is time to try to find those posts, or rewrite them.   Rebuffing arguments with individuals has no effect on the widespread belief-system within a Social Group, and even if the individual has been convinced by some argument or other, their new thoughts on the subject quickly fade as they readopt the dominant views of their micro-societies.  Even without the deliberate insults it is hard to sustain enthusiasm, and observing so many people wallowing in their own ignorance as though it was proof of their egalitarian nature, by being no more rational than how they see their mental inferiors, and being on the receiving end when people refuse to contemplate ideas that contravene the prejudices they took in with their mothers’ milk, and resort to vulgar insults to distract from the real issues to avoid cognitive dissonance.

By keeping it simple, Republicans can avoid many ramifications of such a fundamental change.  It is perhaps too hard for people to