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Re: Accountability
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:25:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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And since Iraq sill isn’t liberated--that is, since they cannot choose their
own destiny, that point is also null and void--Your president is lying to us
again. Lies, damn lies and moronic rhetoric. When are you going to call for
his resignation?
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Sorry, Kooties - you have a long wait ahead of you. The tail wags the dog thing
might even win him the next election (and thereby provide him his first
legitimate presidency).
Too fat (pass me the chips, eh?)...
Too comfy (watching the idiot box present me with pleasant images instead of
truth)...
Too rich (as an American I pretend I possess the wealth that would make the tax
cut matter to me, instead I will get my imaginary slice of the pie)...
Too stupid (what I didn’t learn in kindergarten I just don’t want to know)...
Seriously, talk politics with the average European and you will discover how
woefully, blissfully ignorant most Amerians are and wish to be. To the average
European many things are “of course” that are taken as revelations by the
average American. To make any headway with an American in a political discussion
is to first assume you are about to provide a major education in world history
and political theory.
The “educated” American is almost worse -- he thinks a cursory reading of Ayn
Rand makes him a John Galt, a member of the elite instead of a member of the
masses. Rand’s beautiful neo-classical imagery is okay for a fantasy, but where
the rubber hits the road the real engine of the world’s spinning is might makes
right and the law of the thief. Want proof? Bill Gates is one of the
wealthiest and most influential persons living -- and this because he was a
Creator or Plunderer? Thanks for the fairy tale lessons, Ayn! I mean, she
observes the correct phenomenon (emotionally Ayn makes the grade), but takes
away the wrong lessons because the real world is not a comic book and will not
have a comic book outcome -- and ‘twas ever thus. Repeat after me: I am not the
fountainhead of all wisdom, I’m just another little guy already beaten by the
system before I’ve even truly begun. I am a Creator not because it gives me
power, but because it is a function of who I am and I can as little control it
as I could my own beating heart. All hail the Plunderer -- the true source of
political power. Want power? Learn how to steal, not how to create.
YMMV.
-- Hop-Frog
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote: <snip> (...) What I still don't get is that even *if* they find WoMD, as some here are banking on just so they can say "I told you so...", it still in no way justifies this war. Find Anthrax and (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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