Posted on 07/27/2004 9:48:38 PM PDT by L,TOWM
OK FRiends, I confess my confusion. For the last two nights I have watched the Rat Ritual on CSPAN. In between alternately catnapping and throwing stuff at my TV, I keep hearing the rodents squeaking out the phrase "speaking truth to power".
Is this a code phrase? What does it mean? When have any of these people spoke "truth" in any context? How much more power does a Billionaire Senator need before some one gets to speak "truth" to him? Or is this just another example of lib gibberish (forgive the redundancy) like "The politics of meaning" or "That depends on what the definition of is, is." ?
I need help. And if I watch anymore of this Bandini Factory that the Fleet Center has been turned into, the help I require just might be the professional type.
So it is their version of "Is it time yet?"
Speaking truth to power? It's all about the politics of meaning. Can't you see?
It means bend over and grab your ankles.
Just a new phrasing of an old notion.
Being willing to tell the emperor that he's wearing no clothes.
Ever been in a group where someone will throw out a totally meaningless phrase and most of the others will nod or get the deer-in-the-headlights look?
Well, there is usually one person in the group who will say "Huh? that makes no sense!" or" "I don't understand that."
Most normal people are so afraid to appear ignorant that they play into the demagogues hands. But to rely on this technique is the surest sign of intellectual bankrupcy.
"Speaking truth to power" is what you SAY, when you have to LIE to the people who, if you fool them, can put you back in power.
Stuned your beeber.
It means, "We'll determine for you what the truth is after we're back in power."
It's just one of those feel good, meaningless, catch phrases the left is so enamoured of, the kind that roll off the tongue like water after they've taken a half dozen bong hits and listened to Rage Against the Machine for a couple of hours in a Berkeley dorm...
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Re: Environmentalism is not Anti-Individualism ... o= In the case of Greenpeace, one of the guiding principles of the organizations is the Quaker imperative of "speaking truth to power." The "speaker" is ... alt.individualism - Oct 6, 1992 by Allen Smith - View Thread (47 articles) |
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