What is consensus?
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Opps, here is the pic.
I am wondering, again, if our intrepid travelers never visit these places or just never mention them? Here is a…
If this is true, how come politicians succeed?
Spread it brother, at least the former was of practical use.
Medical consensus
More medical consensus
It’s similar to “the science is settled”, but more dangerous.
For the “medical consensus” types…
Here, have one of these.
If they mean consensus the same way they mean it within the party, then it actually means the wishes of the strongest faction to provide insiders with reward and bolster their power.
And, indeed, that is precisely what it looks like.
“What is consensus?”
I detest the word, if somebody uses that word in conversation with me I know they are either ignorant or they have limited views on the subject. I guess it’s why the progressive left loving using the word, especially when it comes to spruiking their nonsense such as climate change. The other word I detest is “gender”.
Both are oblique, shallow nothing burger words.
Indeed, every new discovery displaces and supersedes an earlier consensus.
Before relativity the consensus was that the domain of Newton’s laws extended tiniest fragment of existence within an atom to the ponderous courses of unimaginably vast stars.
Before traipsing off to WA the consensus was that all swans were white.
Before the discovery of heliobacter pylori consensus was that stomach ulcers were all caused by stress.
Imagine where we would be if ‘consensus’ had ruled science.
Mother Lode
Imagine where we would be if ‘consensus’ had ruled science.
Everything would look like climate “science”?
It’s the oddest perversion and inversion of thought.
We spruik immutable truths as “relative” and the constantly evolving as “absolute”.
This can’t end well.
If they only allow their own belief to be published, and not peer-reviewed journal articles which differ from that, then Twitter is a religious cult.
And they should be sued for “not baking the wedding cake” every time they reject a tweet based on their religious position.
So they will be getting rid of 90% of their advertising then?
Or does money buy consensus?
Consensus in NSW means two lunatic females locking the state down at whim.
No consensus in Victoria. It is one lunatic male locking the whole state down at whim.
Miss A: Did you forget the Sutton person?
Consensus: everyone can be wrong.
Consensus is only achieved by following the path of least resistance and is poison to both good decision making and leadership. It’s an intellectually lazy approach that seems low risk but in reality can be the complete opposite.
At best, you get a decision that is disliked the least by the group. And one that is strongly influenced by individual biases and personalities. At worst, it smothers innovation and excellence, fatally damages trust and absolve everyone of any accountability.
Let’s call it what it is – pluralistic ignorance.
It’s always been a weasel word.
One sees that also in the churches.
The resurrection becomes a “metaphor” but women’s ordination is a dogma.
It’s simply the long marchers’ way of subverting an institution whilst at the same time consolidating power within it as they take it over.
Person circled in image was a local chap known as Hans Draggenaway UnShotten
Margaret Thatcher quote:-
Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?”