Posted on 01/21/2007 12:17:53 AM PST by neverdem
The Dims suffer from death camp envy.
A liberal I know wanted (!) Iran to have nukes simply because that would prevent Bush from invading them.
I had to think of all the stupidity, hatred and ill-reasoning that was necessary to come up with a stupid opinion such as that.
By the way. forty is something I'll never forget....because it cost me a grade point in an accounting exam in college. But, think of wind/wind, live/live and all those other crazy words whose pronounciation is variable, despite the same spelling!
The author lost much of his credibility with this opening stateement. From my persective, liberalism is getting stronger not weaker. If you doubt it, just look no futher than the election results from last Nov. Or the fact that 5 years after 9/11, a significant percentage of Americans think we are the greatest threat to world peace. And if you think this is bad, just wait till Bush grants amnesty to those 20M illegal immigrants and their families.
As for the Internet, it gives us the illusion that we can change things just by blogging from our homes. In truth, politicians only really react to changes at the voting booths or trouble in the streets.
..... so what.
Before I had chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
Is it "creepy" because liberals go against their own best interests in the long run or because they loathe themselves?
I can't tell.
Yes, but what makes you think blogging cannot bring about a change in viewpoints, leading to a change in the voting booth?
The author might try to directly question liberals about their dearest assumptions.
I think the author is doing the "move along nothing to see here" effort with the internet.
Don't get your news from the internet, watch the MSM, you only need newspapers...
read my articles!!!!!
Yes, but what makes you think blogging cannot bring about a change in viewpoints, leading to a change in the voting booth?
Perhaps, but so far its mostly been to the Left's favor.
And why not? That would only be yet another manifestation of the deification of youth and the weird desire on the part of so many in popular culture never to leave their late adolescence, when romance trumps responsibility and passion makes up for ignorance. There's absolutely nothing new there.
It may be that a fear of mortality creeps into the determinedly secular and that may explain the desperate desire to cling to youth. But there is also an element of stupidity in the assumption that one may only transcend one's own culture in the despising of it. Between those two factors the achievements of the past and the standards of the present get mighty short shrift. But that is what is rewarded. Unfortunately it is much easier in this day of sensation to be thought an intellectual than actually to be one.
Of all institutions the most powerful in this respect is the mass media, on account of its insidious ability to drip-drip its influence on every aspect of the way you perceive the world beyond your own direct experience. Everything you know - or think you know - about, Iraq or ‘global warming' or ‘the latest social research' on this or that subject, you probably got via the media. The great media conjuring trick is the illusion that it is merely a transparent window whereas in reality it is a window, richly decorated with mythologyThe consequences of this confused and self-indulgent philosophy are full of paradox.
First: when do you ever hear any credit given to the wicked American enterprise culture for the microchip, the personal computer, the Internet, Google, and all the rest of the apparatus that every lefty-liberal anti-globalisation warrior or anti-Western terrorist now blithely uses in pursuit of her agenda? In a staggering act of biting the hand that feeds, the liberal intelligentsia sneers at the kind of souls without whom there would have been no Western civilisation in the first place. Meanwhile South East Asia is turning out science graduates in the millions.
Second: the spread of attention-seeking, wilful victimhood in our culture - the whingeing, blaming and litigating -has tragically been assisted by the very scruples of self reliant, non-drama-queen type people preferring to just keep their own counsel and say nothing.
It is also necessary to challenge the century long myth that a left-wing type of ‘social conscience' is good-hearted even if it is naïve. This is one huge fallacy. The truth is that it is more usually self-centred, self-deceiving and ultimately self-serving.
Great article. This isn't new to me since my knowledge of Liberals came via my parents, and everything in this article proves they were right.
They are a strange, self loathing bunch, full of contradictions and hangups.
Plutocrats of the People - Why are America's superrich suddenly fretting about income inequality? not that long
Lefty Retailer Insults Troops quite short & boycott justified
Introduction: utopia vs. nationhood not that long
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Thanks for the ping!
"Of all institutions the most powerful in this respect is the mass media, on account of its insidious ability to drip-drip its influence on every aspect of the way you perceive the world beyond your own direct experience. Everything you know - or think you know - about, Iraq or ‘global warming' or ‘the latest social research' on this or that subject, you probably got via the media. The great media conjuring trick is the illusion that it is merely a transparent window whereas in reality it is a window, richly decorated with mythology."
Maybe this is why the true newshounds among us choose overseas news sources to find out what is happening in the world, and in the U.S.
And a wide variety, to cancel out bias...and when it comes to science, stuff a bit more in depth than the AP reports.
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