A small meditation on the Anglosphere
Are Lefties more mentally ill? They claim to be…
Post below excerpted from Dr. Joy Bliss. See the original for links
What are we to make of this report from Gallup?
Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans report having excellent mental health, compared to 43% of independents and 38% of Democrats. This relationship between party identification and reports of excellent mental health persists even within categories of income, age, gender, church attendance, and education.
Although I have no idea about whether a self-report of “mental health” has any validity at all, I would speculate that Republicans, statistically, with the Conservative and Libertarian flavorings of many Republicans, may tend to be more optimistic, hopeful, self-reliant, and to feel less needy and to feel less deprived. In other words, happier and probably better-adjusted people. That is pure speculation, but it matches my personal experience that Lefies tend to be more bitter and dissatisfied – also with no relationship to income, education, church-going or age.
Also, as I have mentioned in the past, I see a difference in the “transference” towards government between Conservatives and others. I think that those who are more prone to unconscious parental transferences are more likely to turn to, rely upon, and to trust or hope to trust, the State. Am eagerness for childlike transferences in adulthood is not a predictor of emotional well-being.
Conservative-Libertarian types like me, I think, tend to view the people involved in politics and the State as being at least if not more venal, self-serving, corrupt, egotistical, foolish and ineffective as other areas of human endeavor like business, academia, non-profits, etc. I like to think that this view has been arrived at through a lifetime of experience, a lifetime’s interest in history and public affairs, and repeated (very educational) disappointments and disillusionments during my foolishly naive, idealistic, Liberal youth. Experience and psychoanalytic training powerfully introduced me to the dark side of human nature – against my will.
No commentsMath Is Hard
Despite a growing gender gap on Canadian campuses, universities are balking at a fledgling movement in the United States to make special efforts to attract more men, such as adopting affirmative action initiatives that favour male applicants over female ones.Campus recruiters and admissions managers from Memorial University of Newfoundland to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver say they are taking no extra steps to target male students.
Nor do they consider it a problem—at least not yet—that female university students outnumber men by about 60-40 on average nationwide.
If the situation were reversed—men had a 20% numerical advantage in seats, you’d better believe it would be a “problem.” The feministas would be howling from the rooftops that this constituted “systemic” discrimination.
It doesn’t at all surprise me that institutions that display an almost pathological hostility (for examples too numerous to go into here, check out Christina Hoff Summers’ The War Against Boys) towards boys and young men would wind up with such screwed-up demographics.
Since the only numbers that these bean-counters seem to understand are simple percentages and government dollars, the solution is evident: Until the universities can show good-faith efforts to recruit males until they achieve a more equitable balance, funding should be chopped to reflect the disparity. If they really need the money, I’m sure they can find it by shutting down some of the innumerable basket-weaving courses that infest critical faculties like Women’s Studies.
Barbie was right: Math is hard! But arithmetic is easy.
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