After months of EVERYTHING IS RACIST and WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE I’ve been enjoying a news boycott.
Our media in this country sucks ass.
After months of EVERYTHING IS RACIST and WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE I’ve been enjoying a news boycott.
Our media in this country sucks ass.
Don’t blame me. I didn’t vote for that dumb bastard.
The letter makes me sad because journalism is important and while I recognize a leftward bent at the Times I often felt they were careful to do the journalism part “right”.
I forgot how awesome the Silence U documentary series is. For your viewing pleasure:
"You can never have too many knives." --Joe Ambercrombie
Shabbat shalom, motherf***ers! --Mordechai Jefferson Carver
Catch22. Their very affliction makes them unwilling to see.
“I have the cure for deafness. All one needs do is listen to this set of instructional tapes. “
Or, the actual thing many people found when buying a new VCR... an included vhs tape that contained all of the instructions for setting up your new vcr.
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Well, I'm a huge fan of Catch-22 and Joseph Heller, but I don't buy it. Things happen in people's lives that give them new perspective. It can be from personal experience, or it can be learned via observation...viewing, reading, hearing etc.
Granted, nothing can turn a pie in the sky idealist into a much more keen sighted realist than some firsthand observation and experience...but it's simply not the case that people don't evolve from one point of view to another during their lifetimes. I know because I personally have experienced it myself.
How quickly it is accomplished, if it is accomplished, is a different matter.
It is up to us to help others with their metamorphosis...when opportunity allows.
I think we may have had this discussion/debate here in the past.
so far in my 45 years, I haven't seen but maybe a handful of people actually, fundamentally, truly change their belief system very dramatically. and even then it's generally tied to recovering from an addiction (with the all-too-often back-slide to accompany it). I've seen a lot of people claim to change, or seem to change, or pretend to change, but precious few actually changed as evidenced by the collapse of their new belief system when tested.
IMO asking some uber-liberal, who believes that they have a special gift of insight on the world that justifies their belief system over and above the little people, to realize the error of their ways and change their viewpoint just isn't going to happen.
and it's damn sure not going to happen because some silly twit (who we happen to agree with today) rage-quit her job on the internet after her coworkers were allegedly mean to her.
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