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Not in the soft sciences, no. Bioinformatics for a while, and now computer science/computational linguistics. My advisor and most of the faculty in the toxicology and comp sci groups were libertarian or conservative, though because they have to hide their political affiliation you have to get close to know that.
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I am using the same methodology as the OP.
That's certainly not a scientific methodology
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In reality, liberals "feel" more, and conservatives prefer to use logic and reasoning and in more cases prefer Darwinism in society.
The irony of saying something is true basically because you believe it is and then saying that "liberals feel more" is just something. Truth is not fact, and humans regardless of vocation are much more complex than just liberal or conservative. I would hope that people with advanced educations would have more nuanced outlooks.
The irony of saying something is true basically because you believe it is and then saying that "liberals feel more" is just something. Truth is not fact, and humans regardless of vocation are much more complex than just liberal or conservative. I would hope that people with advanced educations would have more nuanced outlooks.
Why aren't there many politically conservative artists, even less so, neoconservative artists? (That includes musicians, fiction movie makers, poets, video game designers, etc.)
We tend to have practical jobs. By our nature, most conservatives would consider "the arts" to be a hobby and not a profession.
We tend to have practical jobs. By our nature, most conservatives would consider "the arts" to be a hobby and not a profession.
Yes because everyone should chase after money and only care about being rich their whole lives. How fun and fullfilling! I noticed that many of my fellow creatives have bigger hearts and aren't as materialistic as conservatives. We don't need 5 quads, 3 cars, a boat and a gigantic house to be happy and if any of us do make a lot of money off it we have no problem helping the poor and those with less.
Artists tend to see what is, not what the Konservatives would like them to believe.
Au contraire, artsies dream abiut how they would run things; the workings of the marketplace limit them to what the people who still have money to spend think they're worth. Hence, the (pseudo-) Liberal desire for power ro force their view on the rest of us (by the same people who whine loud-and-long about censorship, BTW.
(When you arrive at a contradiction, examine your premisies, because at least one of them is wrong -- Ayn Rand)
They play dress up for a living. They entertain and play make believe. This is not the crowd you'd expect to find logic or wisdom from. The wealthy ones try to avoid paying taxes often.
Someone like Michael Moore loves to use people, not pay their wages or offer them health insurance when he advocates all of that. Lots of hypocrites in that group.
That is not a bitter statement. It is a logical one.
Are you thinking of "artists" as only actors and movie people? What about painters, musicians, photographers, etc? I'm not even sure that actors consider themselves "artists."
Maybe the loving America gene is related to the artistic gene
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