Reply #5: It's hard to reason with communists [View All]

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They have religion. I try to explain to them most of what happens is based on our genes, and we're wired in a certain way, with certain behaviors, which up until now have implied survival, reproductive advantage, and so on. They have a very touchy feely way of looking at homo sapiens, and the universe at large. I've advised graduate students who understood the simple principles involved, but if they had a chavista professor as their academic advisor, then we had grating sounds. I've even had students present very high quality theses who had trouble getting them accepted, or were denied for publishing, because even the independent universities are starting to fear the communists, so they'd rather not push the envelope. This reminds me of Spain under the Catholic Church's Inquisition, god save you if you were a jew. And today, as Venezuela evolves, those of us who are more rational and pragmatic, we're the jews. Eventually, we'll have to leave, or we'll be burned alive.