Nothing but Paspalum Fasciculatum here
So, if I answered 4,5, and 6, what should I label myself? Inquring minds want to know!
By the way, George Orwell made a great observation about political language in his essay, Politics and the English Language:
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find -- this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify -- that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
Mmmm...
Rational thinking, somewhat naive (the key is in the has to be in option 5), lazy dude I guess. But then, since these are your labels, you can get to adjust their meaning as you please....
Thanks for the quote.
Edgar, most people operate out of a context of deep indoctrination--otherwise they would not support the political/economic structures that are ruining our planet.
I suggest that you expand your own mind a bit--read a little about how politics/propaganda in the real world really works.
You are merely dabbling on the surface. Your 'rationality' is part of the disease.
As is typical, you swallow the accepted truths given by the dominant powers in your culture.
Most people are fanatics of one sort or the other--they mistake their biases for unmitigated truth.
How are you different.
Reading your comments on Devil's Excrement, i think you have much work to do with respect to escaping your own delusions of 'truth'.
As is typical, you swallow the accepted truths given by the dominant powers in your culture.
A scientific truth is that that can only be supported by facts. And I fail to see how this relates to what I wrote.
And by what you write I can tell you:
I suggest that you expand your own mind a bit--read a little about how politics/propaganda in the real world really works.
Because I do.
great Blog Edgar!!!!
Thanks Calypso.
Still concentrating on the 'well placed link' idea but, given that I draw on the PSFs for inspiration on that, I seem to be running out of ideas fast ;^)...
I am trying to figure out how to make it less venting and news and more action.
Hi
Somehow I landed on your blog today.
It is a very interesting blog. As a socialist I am very happy to meet someone who actually has the smarts to defend his antichavista arguments with facts.
The rest of your blog is really interesting. I just come back from venezuela and I could see the growing discontent around the revolution, very different from 2004. The chavista movement grows its own cancer. However, I still think the majority of the venezuelan working class remains behing chavez.
I saw things in venezuela that I am very enthusiastic about, and that your blog consciously omits to talk about. As a french socialist I remain extremely hopeful the revolution in venezuela will find a successful way out of its slump.
Venezuela is not a dictatorship, and I will even say that I thought the freedom of expression for both sides was as big if not bigger than in my country of france.
Maybe you should meet other people than antichavistas.
Oh, and, don't think of yourself as too smart, I suggest you be more humble.
DTN
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