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How can something called “the basics” be so difficult? You have learned a skill which the rest of us need to develop, but it will take a lot of time and effort for us to be hit with this way of thinking until we get it. Most of us have been conditioned by television and the media to absorb information uncritically.
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To a great extent, your last sentence answers the question posed in the first one.
Absorbing opinions uncritically has been what all of mankind before the white race normally did. That is an easy pattern to impose and a hard one to break.
We broke the pattern and went for the simple answers, but there is nothing EASY about that.
Simple is not easy.
It is not difficult to say that “Walter Cronkite said so and so” or “The Great God Kufu speaking through the High Priest” said so and so. It is EASY to try to find the final truth in quotes from the Old Testament.
When Newton noticed that things fall, he deduced a whole theory of the universe from that. The concept is simple, but when you go into it, your whole blackboard fills up with calculus equations. That is NOT easy.
Once you have decided not to compromise with reality, the world becomes very difficult to deal with. You can no longer say, “Well, Father X or Reverend Y or Justice Z must be compared with the words of ….” You don’t even have to wake up to talk that crap.
But reality is a tough customer. You can’t quit with a quote from Father Ignatius. You can’t rest until you get the ANSWER. The one that WORKS. The one that couldn’t care less whether it sounds good or not.
Simple becomes very, very hard. If you realize its importance AND you have a conscience and empathy, it becomes downright cruel.
But the only alternative is to be a herd beast.
#1 by Alan B. on 10/04/2006 - 2:06 pm
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It is sad that most people never question what they are being fed. Someone made a comment on the idiot box that social welfare proposals use to be sold to the american people over a period of time. Now they just go on camera and say we are going to propose this program, minus any debate, its gotten to easy. I know many people who do not have the foggiest idea what goes on in politics and the special interest that drives this, they are not dumb, hell most of these people can rattle off useless sports stats all day. PC or PRETTY WEIRD is a paper house ready to fall, if we can get a good breeze going it will blow away like dust.
#2 by Dave on 10/04/2006 - 4:27 pm
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When I was kid, I thought that every grownup was an absolute nitwit.
Nothing in my adult life has changed my view.
For example, I remember telling my friend, Duane:
“Duane, you are the ugliest kid I ever saw. I can’t believe anybody could be born with a chin so weak, a nose so big, with such a tendency to slobber.”
Duane relied: “The way I see it, if you are born ugly, you’re going to be ugly the rest of your life, so you might as well get used to it”.
I liked and respected Duane the way I would never like or respect an adult.
I hardly have ever known an adult in my life with the capacity for Duane’s realistic self-assessment.
Mommy Professor was mightily disappointed in Duane.
He was terrible material for Mommy Professor.
#3 by Shari on 10/04/2006 - 8:52 pm
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You know, it occurres to me that you mix everything together. You say, it’s not a contradition, it’s a pattern, which applies to damned politics. Then you talk about FatherX and Reverevd Y ect. I have a problem with what they say,these days, too. But, they don’t really have influence. It’s that pattern that does.
#4 by Alan B. on 10/05/2006 - 1:19 am
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True Bob and Al, I always new that things were really weird, I couldnot bring myself to believe this sharade was intentional. I guess you can call me a nerd but I became interested in politics before my 18th birthday. I Believed I was part of something important that would lead to change and restore America, I voted for Reagan in 1980 and I felt like a god. here I am 44 and almost totally demoralized, a victim of all this R vs D business, nothing really changed and the nuts were always running the show, it was a huge sham. I guess my 20 years of wishfull thinking is nothing when compared to Bobs 50 years of knowing how the game was played and working to get the people to see it for what it really is. This had to be tought to deal with, establishments can be a hard nut to crack, its that tough shell that gets in the way, the media, pr hacks and the congress, nobody believed the inside was just a rotten empty void. I will say this people are waking up slowly. For example, the minute men brought attention to our southern border, the internet spread the word this forced a crack in that nut and its growng, I am really beginning to get excited again.
#5 by Shari on 10/05/2006 - 1:16 pm
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It looks as if the establishment is cracking itself up, whether people are noticing or not. There will soon be many very surprised people, who will need to be told something true for a change.
#6 by Al Parker on 10/05/2006 - 1:52 pm
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Another observation about conservatives:
It seems to be Most of the people who call themselves conservatives today will attack you more loudly and savagely than liberals. They want a squeaky clean image for conservatism because, as you said, the Republicans are looking for that big Hispanic vote.
#7 by Alan B. on 10/05/2006 - 2:35 pm
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When you have some fre time go for a walk and look around. If you look hard enough you can see the conformaty that is taking root. Play grounds with out swing sets, teeter totters etc., todays play grounds are bland they lack the things that were risky or challenging of daring. They lack immagination, they are orderly and friendly they are nicy nice. Todays subdivions can tell a story, large homes cramed together like sardeens, three styles at most, just alternated in a thought out pattern. Gone is immagination, creativity. Here we see conformaty and the collective, hell anyone of the idiots who bought one of these dumps could have purchased a few arces in the country and built a home of their choosing. See what happnes when people are used to having things just handed to them.
#8 by Alan B. on 10/06/2006 - 1:17 am
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Americans are begining smell a rat, that big centralized corrupt rat that lives in Washington. Sometimes the rat will do our job for us and I have a couple of examples. The amen cornor finally recieved the reality check it deserved when dunder head GW picked Harriet “WHO” Myers for the supreme court. This level of stupidy is wonderful, what a phony sell out, hell his party controls both houses and only a few had the balls to hammer the dimwit on it, so buyer be ware, you get what you vote for. Goverment is in the business for goverment, they don’t care about you. My co-worker said he plans to vote in the next election, I asked him why,his answer, maybe things will change. The definition of insanity “is” making the same mistake over and over, expecting a different result each time, this is reality. I wrote down Bobs website and a few other news outlets for him to check out, here you wont find talking hairdo’s reading a script, news actors playing PC, whos job it is to sell hemmoroid ointment and maylox.