John Stossel – Politically Incorrect Guide To Politics
click below for the rest Zeitgeist: Addendum and The Venus Project hoax
View the Zeitgeist film at the bottom of this post. The Venus Project assumes there can be an abundance of everything. That is simply not true. Technology can make many things abundant and the film discusses energy in great detail, but that is hardly everything. Human demand is limitless, it’s simply not possible for 6 billion people to each live in a 5000 square foot mansion with attached private beach on the Florida coast. We live in a finite world and I am simply not convinced that even the base assumption proselytized by this film is realistic. In fact, it appears to be terribly flawed and reminiscent of discredited communist rhetoric. What is the meaning of cool?
Last week I learned from another person that a friend of mine wants to buy a motorcycle. Silly practical me, I asked if it was because he wanted to save on fuel costs… which resulted in some laughter. No, he just wants to be cool. What does “cool” mean, anyway, and why do people want to be it so badly? I am naturally repelled by “cool” things. I liked SUV’s until they became cool. I liked Apple computer until they became cool. When I was 4 or 5 years old I used to tell people my favorite color was yellow… I actually hated yellow, but I chose it because everybody else hated it too. What does that say about me? Big Business or Big Government?
I read an article the other day, don’t remember where, that claimed conservatives are more susceptible to being startled and more fearful people in general, while liberals are more relaxed and easy-going. Supposedly, this explains the reason Republicans tend to take threats and terrorism more seriously — ignoring the obvious fact that many (if not most) wars are started by Democrats. It doesn’t make sense for many reasons, most obviously because liberals have a hundred other threats at the top of their agenda: environmental damage, rogue private enterprise, erosion of civil liberties, etc. The suburban upper-middle class delusion syndrome
I find it quite ironic and somewhat amusing — the first word that comes to mind when I recall conversations with socialists (by any other name) is “ego”… followed closely by “ignorance”. The irony of course is that their entire platform is based on denying themselves what they deserve in order to help others, but there is a certain element of smug self-satisfaction that comes along with believing you are sacrificing something for the greater good. In most cases it doesn’t even seem to matter whether the policies make sense, just slap a catchy slogan and a sympathy-inducing picture and you’re good to go. You can see it on their faces, “I just have more compassion.” Conformity breeds stupidity
There is a difference between conforming your behavior and conforming your mind. It’s perfectly reasonable to respect murder prohibitions, but it’s not reasonable to accept conventional thinking without challenge. That doesn’t mean you should disagree with every idea or conviction held by another, but it does mean you shouldn’t include deference or majority opinion as an important factor in determining your conclusions — assuming you are knowledgeable and intelligent enough to understand the subject matter. Who cares what other people think, prove your case. I just coined a new word: hedgy [plural: hedgies]
hedgy       /hej-ee/ John F. Kennedy and the speech that got him killed
“Man will be what he was born to be, free and independent”. In just a little over 5 minutes, JFK tells the world of a vaste conspiracy to infiltrate and abuse government powers for the personal profit of individuals and/or corporations. Ask yourself why you’ve never heard this before, then you will believe him. The Super Class
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