Comments on: By his/her works shall you know him/her

By: Mikki

Mikki — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:32:10 +0000

Actually I too think we’re headed for the demise of our culture. I keep a mental catalogue of all the little signs of the end of various civilizations and we’re positively bursting at the seams with them. Really, we couldn’t have expected to stay on the top for too long, history shows quite clearly that no society really lasts. I will confess it’s all happening way quicker than I thought, though. But hey, if you’re Hindu it’s all up from here. I, for one, hold with Hesiod.

By: h_m

h_m — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:34:40 +0000

We will all be blown up by a giant insect space ship hijacked by a gay, jealous, homicidal robot head.

For the record, I am not gay.

By: J Crowley

J Crowley — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:48:22 +0000

Joe: What’s amusing, though, about conservatives trying to preserve a particular culture is that their ideal is oftentimes just a fantasy. I’m pretty sure people never actually behaved the way they want us all to behave, and though the 1950s — the decade many of them seem to look to as a bastion of their values — was rather socially terrible in many of the ways that get them hot and bothered, it wasn’t as thoroughly oppressive as the nightmare they’d have us live given the power to do so. Conservatives and liberals are all trying to change and shape the country into something different than what it currently is — it’s just that liberals seem to have a greater respect for individual freedom in mind.

By: J Crowley

J Crowley — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:39:52 +0000

K: We will all be blown up by a giant insect space ship hijacked by a gay, jealous, homicidal robot head.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:03:08 +0000

Yeah, if you can’t admit that you’re confused, intimidated and terrified, then make yourself a veneer of cynicism to try to keep some clutch on the myth that you’re clever. Well played.

By: K

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:20:33 +0000

I fear neither the Hadron Collider nor black hole theory. And it won’t stop per se in November — our society is already in the process of completely ending. How will it go down? I am not sure. I’m standing by and watching like the rest of you.

In summary: Don’t put any stock into what these overpriced meat puppets are spewing out of their cakeholes. Focus on the fact that you’re being lied to everyday and go from there.

By: Gawain

Gawain — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:54:00 +0000

^— Me

Dammit, I was logged in and everything!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:52:43 +0000

You mean in November, or are you still holding out for the Large Hadron Collider / black hole theory?

By: K

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:04:36 +0000

Fuck ‘em all. It’s all gonna end soon anyway.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:18:59 +0000

Frankly, as soon as it became a name-calling game, the discussion was over. Actually liberalism is very little of what mikeg claimed, as far as a standard political term. Traditionally, in a delicious twist, the Republicans were the liberals of the country, with Lincoln as the standard carrier. The poli-sci definition of liberalism actually promotes free-market systems, with regulation and protections in place to prevent the fuckstupid things that are happening today on Wall Street. Liberalism promotes less government interference in citizens’ lives, holding the concepts of freedom of speech/religion/thought sacrosanct. Rule of law is the ultimate political power, and fair interpretation of those laws for each and every citizen.

Conservatives, on the other hand, are rooted in tradition and status quo. Preserving a culture or perceived ideologies are paramount to a conservative thinker, and politically speaking this translates to a depowered central government, with states being the arbiters of their own fates. Ironically, many of the economic and political “values” espoused by modern US conservatives were originally very liberal policies. The problem is that nowadays, there are many cultural and religious conservatives that have an undue amount of influence over the Republican party, and have corrupted conservatism to being a repressive, anti-counter-thought philosophy.

You seem like an intelligent guy, mikey, it makes me sad to see someone so devoid of critical thought parroting ad hominem attacks and partisan pablum like you do. Oh, and by the way, there is very little evidence that the majority of Americans are conservative. There is very strong evidence, however, that the majority of the voters in America are either conservative (unlikely) or too apathetic/lazy/busy to actually critically inform themselves abotu the candidates, and instead vote based on personality, hearsay, or with their metaphorical dick. “He’s the kind of guy I’d have a beer with” is not a good basis for voting for a leader.