…Is that the elderly person will try to “force fit” every new experience or event… into a previously-decided matrix.
The mind becomes brittle, in a word. It cannot evaluate new experiences, without “forcing” them to conform to one’s prior biases.
So it is, from a few years ago now (in truth), with Hinderaker.
Overnight he wrote about a wholly-imagined grand Liberal / Democratic conspiracy… [wait for it!] that involves utility customers in Colorado who VOLUNTARILY gave the utility the right to remotely control the Nest, or other internet connected thermostat… in their homes.
They did so in return for a reduction on all their monthly bills, year ’round — agreeing to be hard limited in certain peak demand scenarios. Agreeing in writing. [Remember that bedrock notion of “freedom of contract“, John?!] We may quibble about whether the customers were wise in doing so. But it is sheer lunacy to paint this as a liberal “new world order” solely because most of Colorado’s population leans blue.
Yet that is the ever-present, and forlorn (now, until he departs this blue orb)… Hinderaker. Everything is out to get him; to steal off with his 1940s sensibilities on all matters civic.
Amazing — and sad. He once was a passable intellect.
No longer.
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