They are mistaking the USA nad Earth of Africa and Mars.

Even the equator is above Australia, New Zealnd, where who makes Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit, and Antarctica

No requirement. It's like Baha. It's below California, but above the equator.

Maybe greater Captain Kirk proceeds from Galt's Gulch. Is it not a more enteprising place?

Kissinger can kiss his what notion good-bye.

There are people who can cause superior oil above above what Kissinger can pretend there can be. It's one of the ways he gets defeats.

Sasquatch may win.

Various animals are superior socialismists.

Mostly other faculty members. There were a few students that echoed that idea however. I had a humorous event when I offered a class "Introduction to modern astronomy". There were over 300 requests when we expected maybe 30 for the class and we had to move it to a theater type classroom. Most of the students dropped the class they realized it was about astronomy rather than astrology. Oh well.

Did you encounter that with the students taking physics? What were the students trying to "negotiate"?

I know it's odd but there are people that think physical laws are dreamed up by a bunch of people and then enforced arbitrarily. I put them in the same class as Flat Earthers.

Acceptance of liberal dogma and diversity of sexual orientation, skin color, and ethnicity are ok while diversity of thought is forbidden. According to many of my students and some faculty members (non scientists) physical laws (such as gravity and conservation of momentum) are too restrictive and need to be adjusted to respond to societal norms. While this is absurd on its face it reflects the thinking in many of our universities today.

Thinking has no place in an institute of higher learning? Because critical thinking is critical of emoting as a source of knowledge and behavior? What kind of a school was that and what goes on in the physics department? Who was trying to negotiate the laws of physics, transforming them into what?

We live in a post rational world. When I retired from NASA I continued teaching; astronomy, physics, and computer programming. While I taught a couple of graduate level courses I also taught freshman physics. Each year the new students became increasingly difficult to accommodate as a growing number were functionally illiterate. What's more they could not accept the desirability of logical thinking. Feelings were more important than facts. Even the fundamental "laws" of physics were opinions and subject to negotiation. The final straw took place at the school library. I found a stack of books on critical thinking sitting in the trash awaiting their destiny with the book burners. I salvaged them and added them to my personal collection. I asked the librarian why these books were being thrown out. She said they were misogynistic, homophobic, and anti diversity and such writings had no place in an institute of higher learning. I confronted the board of regents at a faculty meeting and got much the same answer. It was clear that the real objective was to teach what to think as opposed to how to think. I concluded that there was no place for me in such an institution and the board agreed. We parted ways. The most insidious form of destruction of a civilization is decay from within. It can begin with the education system and from there it metastasizes to the news and education media and ultimately to the courts. We are witnessing the death throws of a republic and it is of little consolation that it lasted over one hundred yeas longer than the founders thought it would.

When it comes to the examples you cite, I cannot conceive of a rational person not being confused by those examples of utter irrationality. We seem to be reverting to the days of Gehgis Khan.

The worst problem created by critical thinking is that when a conclusion is reached then a decision must be made based on understanding of the nature of reality. Most often if good results are desired this automatically directs the individual to the fact that he must now act (work) to make it happen. Faced with that choice most people prefer to make life work by enforcing work onto others and pilfering from them. This requires either accepting the fact that the individual is either immoral (which they don't want to do) or that they re-evaluate their criteria or rework the argument until they can accept that A is not A but B and it is not their fault.

The problem with society today is that people no longer drink from the skulls of their enemies.

Your explanation reminds me of an example of socialism I heard 10 or 20 years ago: Lets say you are a school teacher, the first day of class you explain to them that like socialism, you are going to average out the grade each person gets on each test and that is the grade each person gets on the test. For each test you have 3 types of people; the ones that study their butts off, the ones that do just enough to get by, and last the people that could care less. The first test comes along and the average grade is a "C". The first type of people complain that they got 100% right but only got a "C". The second group says they got pretty much what they deserved. The last group says "This is great!!! I didn't even have to work for the "C"". Pretty soon everyone starts doing less and by the end of the semester they are all failing.

Best example of socialism because even the third group can understand it even though they will do nothing to correct it...

We are headed down the rabbit hole, and both Dems and Republican establishment are leading the way. I became worried years ago when Kissinger said if they could control oil, food and banks, they could accomplish one world governent in two years. Did not happen, so then turned to brainwashing in the public schools and setting race against race.With Hillary and Obama having years to push the Alinsky model, they are making the society over into a Marxist/communist society by playing on the stupidity of society. We are headed for a dumbed down, one-world, land of sheeple, with the elite few running the show. Why, because people have allowed themselves to be stupid and uninformed, while inferiors like Obama scheme with Soros and his money, to destroy our society.

I don't know if they are "leftists" so much as unwitting anarchists. Of course, collapsing society first then rebuilding in a totalitarian (socialist based) model may be the long term plan -- or the natural and logical consequences.

where is society headed, straight into the toilet. CYA

Animals don’t reason and produce anything. Humans can think and reason IF they want to- separating themselves from lower animals and allowing them to change their environment to rnhance their lives. If one chooses not to think and reason, the only option is to simply take what is out there that is created by otgerd

Exactly ! The quickest and easiest way to test for this parasitical tendency is to find out if they voted for Hillary in 2016. If yes, they are to be avoided and considered sn enemy

Based on my experience, it is the parasite that is attracted to socialism. One of my neighbors made the remark recently, regarding an increased tax "Well, the State really needs that money." I had no rebuttal -- essentially, I don't speak that language, and I was a bit taken aback at the brazenness of the statement. But what she was really saying is this:
1. My State teacher's pension needs that money.
2. My husband's Social Security Disability needs that money.
3. My deadbeat kid on Obamacare "free health care" needs that money.
When you find someone that is attracted to socialism, know that you are looking at a parasite that is profiting from it -- the taking of property from one class of citizens and giving it to others... and they are on the receiving end of the transaction. It is open parasitism; endorsed with the general approval of their own conscience.

Yes. Thanks. There is no society. More with animals. Numbers of things various people get can get from animals.Their news can be on National Geographic.