Good news Republicans: you don’t have to like Al Gore to accept
the reality of climate change.
I think it's time we accept the
fact the media has a profound mental illness and stop trying to react to the
narrative it spins.
You’re a cry baby when you protest
statues that glorify those who oppressed your ancestors, but you’re a patriot
if you cry about those statues being taken down.
Once we realize that communication
is not combat but the sharing of opinions and perceptions, we will all be
happier and together make a better future. Your opinion, everyone’s opinion,
matters. You don’t have to dominate, just speak your mind respectfully and listen openly.
I would go so far as to say capitalism is a religion, but I’m
afraid capitalists would latch onto the idea and demand tax exemption.
Let me explain it to you in a way you might understand: I consider
Muslims my neighbors and friends, but I do not wish to live under Sharia law.
Similarly, I consider most capitalists I know to be good people, and yet I do
not want my entire society to function according to the laws they dictate.
There are some who claim that Donald Trump has killed truth, but
the fact is its lifeless body was already cold by the time he arrived on the
scene. It had been beaten senseless by claims of Weapons of Mass Destruction,
had countless stab wounds by phrases such as No Fly Zone, collateral damage,
and preventive war. Media consolidation and the repeal of the fairness doctrine dug the hole for its burial and for-profit media filled in the grave.
No, what Donald Trump has done to make many so angry is not kill
the truth, but burst the fragile bubble of illusion we were in that permitted
us to go about our business and avoid confronting the lies we were being told.
If you have heard a political idea mentioned so many times you
accept it as inarguable fact and yet cannot say who formulated the idea, it is
likely the product of some propaganda machine.
I have worked in an office and I have worked in a union factory,
and I have noticed in a union shop I never felt compelled to laugh at a joke my
boss made if it wasn’t funny.
Dictatorial nations censor the press, capitalist nations bog it
down with so many commercials and fluff that you’ll never even notice when the
actual important information is slipped by you. And censoring, they do that
too.
A problem with the consumer society we are living in is that it
gives people what they want, not what they need. The very glut of available
wants to be satisfied distracts us from our needs. It gives us sugar water
instead of water. It gives us “grandma’s recipe” cookies instead of grandma’s
cookies, which grandma works overtime to pay for but does not have time to bake.
A question for proponents of small government: if a child grows up
thinking society doesn’t care about him, what makes you think he will care
about society?
Telling people not to go to non-mainstream media sources is the
same as telling them not to eat at non-chain restaurants or buy food from local farmers.
We are no longer a nation capable of waging wars for victory but
only for profit. Victory is unacceptable because that would mean an end to the gravy train. We no longer have any desire to rehabilitate criminals because they
would leave the prison industrial complex that is a money-making machine. We no
longer seek to cure the sick but rather introduce new patients into the system by inventing new illnesses and producing new drugs to help manage them.
The Democratic Party is like an aged whore who thinks she needs nothing more
than a little makeup to get voters to pledge their faithfulness, but it is
merely a delusion brought on by the advanced symptoms of venereal disease.
If a person does not quote often from the sources that inspired
deep thought within him, then there are no deep thoughts to be found within
such a person.
A nation not open to debate is a doomed nation.
Is it going too far to suggest that those who own our nation’s
debt should not also own the lawmakers who are responsible for that debt?
A nation that uses violence to suppress the rights of people in
other nations will inevitably do the same within its own borders.
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