"i'm going to run to canada if bush is elected! boo hoo!"
look you spineless assholes: if your society is going south, stay there and fight for it. fleeing means that you don't hold much stock in the strength of your own convictions, and instead parasitically depend on someone else to fight for your convictions
all of your freedoms you hold dear must constantly be protected and fought for. what, you think you fight for something once and it stays that way forever? no, every day is a fight against constant assaults against your freedoms, and this is the way it is, FOREVER, IN EVERY SOCIETY. this is the reality you live in, so grow a fucking backbone, stand your fucking ground, and fight the fucking assholes who infect your society
to anyone who threatens to flee the usa because of changes in society they don't like: you're a loser, you're a freeloader, and you ARE PART OF THE FUCKING PROBLEM
we need fighters who will fight for their home, not freeloading whiners
it seems that even with all your paid for government whores, you can't legislate against technological progress
maybe you should consider your only option: death. fucking parasites
creators: you have a choice too. you can sign a ridiculous stifling agreement with some lawyer assholes where they get the lions share of your creative effort, or you can self-distribute
the downside is it's totally free, the upside is it's totally free. this is not communist thinking, this is in fact a solid capitalist model: think of your digitized creative output as advertising, the same solid capitalist business model as good old FM radio or broadcast television... give it away for free, reap the side benefits. you get fabulous exposure, free advertising, and permanent presence and community building with fans. then you can tour, or show only in movie houses, or a number of other ancillary revenue streams available to you, capitalizing on your exposure
you are your own entrepreneur, with your own creative output. no more is your fate decided by some asshole in a suit in an office: you rise and fall on the sheer affinity of fans to your output. this is, in fact, capitalism at its finest. for those who say the internet is destroying the capitalism as represented by traditional media corporations: no, that's an oligopoly. monopolies and oligopolies, in fact, are a greater threat to healthy capitalism than communist thinking. free over the internet is capitalism at its finest, not communism
creators: make money the honest way, rather than making a deal with the devil that the internet has pretty much destroyed now as a viable avenue for you. help us destroy the financial parasites on our culture, who are attempting to warp our freedoms to grandfather their unnecessary existence into our societies
die bertelsmann, die time warner, just fucking die, die, die you useless rotten pile of lawyers and suits. WE DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE. DIE
i am a human being. i need only that premise to make my argument. you meanwhile, are buried in small ugly pointless tribal vendettas. you think you make your point by playing against american or russian identity, as if i am going to somehow attack or defend one or the other. as if i need either identity to make my point, as if i care about russia or the usa. fuck the usa, fuck russia. who cares about mindless nationalist nitwits? the coming age is pandemocracy. simply study the trendlines of history friend
resistance is futile. who am i? a westerner? an american? no, i am a human being, i am shed of such barbaric identities. your grandchildren will live in my world, and know the fruits of my ideology. i am not an imperialist, i am here to dissolve all empires. i am the ideology whose enemy is mindless indefensible nationalism: as silly as any religion. that you cross arbitrary pointless invisible lines and POOF human nature is suppose to be altered somehow? really? you believe that? you cross the urals, you cross the rio grande, you cross the bosporus, you cross the caucasus, and POOF fundamental human nature is radically altered? does gravity work differently too? please. a human being is a human being is a human being. the template of culture is but a frivolous fluid thing that changes only inconsequential tribal ephemera. go anywhere, and you find the same mix of the sad, the angry, the organized, the psychotic, the hopeful, the hopeless, the self-defeating, the industrious, etc. human nature is a constant across time and space
in the future, no one will call themselves russian, or american, or german, or canadian. there will be no identity save human. it is the trendline of history. study your history: in any expanse of current day empire: russia, china, arabia, usa, etc., in the distant past there used to exist thousands of identities and languages. go over one valley and it would be a completely different nation. but those old imperial centers dissolved, incorporated, and assimilated. so now where were thousands of identities, now there is only russian. where before there were thousands of identities, there is only han, etc
now extrapolate into the future. currently, we have old imperial centers: moscow, beijing, washington dc, london, tokyo, consuming and obliterating historical identities in their sphere of influence. this will only continue, unabated, unstoppable, in an era of jet air travel and the internet, all identities assimilating, converging, merging, until there is only one: human
so i'm sorry, sad little cynical misanthrope. you are in the dustbin of history. soon, thoughts like yours will only exist in a bit of dust in some empty old skulls. so what does it feel like to watch history pass you by?
i've enjoyed talking to you, antediluvian. its instructive and alternatingly comical and frightening, to be a tourist amongst the barbaric cruel ethnocentric thoughts of dead eras. now die, dinosaur
media corporations and their paid-for government whores are attempting to backdoor their oligopolistic unneeded parasitical existence into the internet age
but the people have spoken: we like our freedoms very much, and it is clear the internet has meant that your continued existence means compromising our freedoms in ways we don't like. so i guess you'll just have to die then, unnecessary media corporations
artists, writers, directors: you don't need old school distributors. there's a better, free, distributor: the internet. sure, you won't get pennies everytime someone sings your song in the shower (while some lawyer asshole gets the lion share of pennies) but you'll get fabulous exposure and advertising and presence. then you can tour, and make money the honest way
and in the reality of other nations, freedoms and liberties have been, and still are, horribly defiled...and this has exactly fucking what to do with a national id card?!
there are countries in western europe that have greater protections for certain freedoms and liberties than in the united states. AND THEY HAVE A NATIONAL ID CARD
BECAUSE ITS FUCKING EASIER AND CHEAPER AND MORE CONVENIENT
where exactly does this fucking paranoid schizophrenic fantasy of national id card=gestapo raping your rights come from?
"Without the right papers I will be denied the ability to seek work in a country founded on the very principles of liberty and freedom without government involvement."
why does the existence of the right papers before your ability to apply for work in any way nullifies any of the principles of liberty and freedom we both hold dear?
explain to me in rational terms (not paranoid hysterical hollywood terms) exactly how your liberty or freedoms have been abrogated by the existence of the need to prove who you are in any way whatsoever. i don't want fantasy sequences of imaginary gestapo tracking your every move. i want concrete real world effect on a genuine liberty. do you wish to have the freedom to pretend to be someone other than yourself? this is a constitutional protection!? maybe its to avoid paying taxes? you SHOULD pay taxes, to support the very country that values the liberty and freedom you hold so dear
what the HELL is wrong with you spastic hysterical paranoid nutjobs?
then a national id simply makes that easier faster and cheaper
as for the police, the police are here to protect you from criminals. that you view them as some fascist force hellbent on hurting you and taking away your freedoms speaks volumes about your mental imbalances, not a valid commentary on reality
1. the feds use your drivers license to the same effect they would use a national id. there's no difference. seriously. to believe there is is to be a spastic hysterical idiot
2. a drivers license, or a national id, are simply a necessary component of living in ANY society. it doesn't represent a threat to my freedom or privacy whatsoever. threats to my freedom or privacy come from laws concerning THE USE OF the id. in addition, WITHOUT a driver's license/ id, there is no way for you to access government services without filling out forms every time. it simply convenience and time and cost saving, and less bureaucracy at a national level than 50 different stupid repetitive systems
why do they talk about fascism, "papers please" and destruction of privacy and freedom?
it's just a damn national id card. do you drive? do you have a driver's license? same fucking thing. is the existence of your driver's license some sort of matrix-like conspiracy to utterly destro your individuality? no? then calm the fuck down
it's just a bizarre sort of rigid fear of the unknown, when if you have an actual functioning brain, there's no threat this card poses to anyone, anyhow
its simply consulting the will of the people. what's western about that? furthermore, what culture exists where people prefer to be slaves and never be consulted about what they want from their government?
the idea that cultural differences leads to democracy not working in a particular society is extremely insulting to whatever culture you claim to speak for. you are basically saying the people in that society prefer to be slaves
being able to vote only to one bad candidate is not significantly better than being able to choose between 2 bad candidates (and the same corporations writting the laws behind both of them), and the media is too controlled to have in the big numbers anything related with free will in the population
yes, because in democracies, the media is strictly controlled, while in nondemocracies, it is completely free. furthermore, all candidates in democracies are chosen by the secret conspiracy of corporations and media execs. if you believe either of those these things, and that ONE candidate and COMPLETE CONTROL of the media (in nondemocracies) is therefore superior, or even remotely equivalent to democratic expression, you're a moron: you've replaced your intelligence with the most braindead and patently false form of cynicism. you even admit to it, you say "one bad candidate is not significantly better than being able to choose between 2 bad candidates". yeah, there's plenty wrong with corporate influence and media herd behavior in democracies. but as YOU say, it is still BETTER. "not significantly". LOL
so you'll choose the government where some asshole doesn't care what the hell you think to rule over you... because that's your culture. you're so full of shit
"contrary to what US propaganda tells you, those governments rule at consent and with support of those people"
well, i'm going to tell someone that you prefer mexican food over chinese food. if you protest, i'll say it is my culture not to consult you when i represent your interests, and its only western propaganda that you think that you should be consulted before something is done in your name without your consultation
pfffffffft
what a load of horsecrap
you either consult the people, or you don't. if you don't, you don't represent the will of the people. its pretty simple logic. i would like you to tell me the magical method in which a government can act in the name of the people... and never actually consult their will. meanwhile, to hide behind the veil of "culture" as the reason this is acceptable is completely lame and completely disrespectful of the people whose culture you are so denigrating, by portraying their culture as something in which they are happy to be slaves
a democracy's government constantly consults the will of the people, and so it is constantly realigned with the people's will. this is possible in any human culture that exists, ever has existed, or ever will. it is completely compatible with simple human nature, regardless of any cultural differences. so you can criticize democracy all you want, but this simple truth about democracy makes it better than all other governments because it makes democracy much more stable than other government types. its legitimacy is constantly being refreshed
meanwhile, in nondemocracies, the will of the people drifts apart from the will of the ruling class, whether monarch or totalitarian or oligarchy or theocracy or whatever. it may happen slowly, it may happen fast, it may happen in fits and starts, but nondemocracies experience an unstoppable increase in illegitimacy in the eyes of their people. there is no reconciliation between the people and the government built into the structure of the government, so no reconciliation happens. its a drifting apart
therefore, all nondemocracies are doomed the day they are born. it is only a matter of time before the agenda of the people and the agenda of the ruling class becomes horribly distant, and society disrupts
so the future of the world is pandemocracy. its simply a matter of time, no effort needed... its the only fix we know of to a simple, organic problem that no society can escape in any other way except adherence to democracy: legitimacy. people living in nondemocracies may have no experience or knowledge of democracy. if so, they are doomed to cycling between periods of revolution and tension: build up, release, build up, release, until such time they understand and finally adapt democracy. when they do that, they've just installed a pressure release valve in their society, and so there is no need for revolution anymore. it is perhaps distant for some countries, but if that society is composed of human beings, democracy is inevitable. its the lowest point in the gravity well: all other government types are not stable. so societies may bounce around types, but eventually, they reach the most stable state: democracy, the only government in which legitimacy is refreshed
tell me of another way to unify the will of the government and the will of the people than democracy (which is simply directly consulting their will, can't get simpler than that) and democracy will become a secondary governmental choice. until such time, democracy is the only valid, legitimate, and ideal form of government possible, over any population of human beings, because of its ability to manufacture legitimacy. this observation trumps all other features of other governments: your government doesn't matter if it is seen as illegitimate and social strife rises and rises until...
if that were true, you would spend your time attempting to reason with chimpanzees (take a look at the chompers in that mouth) to keep them from eating meat. additionally, you would hold chimpanzees to the same moral failure for eating the meat they frequently hunt with cruelty, even when other food options are around
but you don't
why? well gee, there must be something special about this human-human interaction going on, i have no idea what it is
"Get off your fucking high horse you anti social misfit. If I want to be pedantic I'm going to be pedantic and whiny little bitches like you sure aren't going to stop me."
in your comment, complete with the comment by tufte about menard's graph verbatim
the old joke about no one on slashdot following the link is not some sort of technical specification that must be understood and adhered to, its a mea culpa that slashdot readers, like you, suck
but, gee, thanks for reducing the comment thread to an inept braindead echo chamber
anyone who spends a lot of time around children is a pedophile, like kindergarten teachers or nannies
unless you can point to a situation in which SEXUAL interest is suggested, to suggest he is a pedophile is completely spurious
for example, his pictures: is there anything even remotely erotic about them? innocence is another thing adults are fascinated about children, and "innocence" does not directly connote sexual innocence. being genuinely unaware of and unspoilt by adult concerns: economic innocence, social convention innocence, racist and ethnocentric innocence, knowledge of mortality innocence, moral innocence, etc
and for dedicating a book to a child: in what way is that indication of sexuality? people can be captivated by other people, including children, for all sorts of reasons. maybe this alice was just hilariously precocious and a wise ass and sort of a savant of the absurdist commentary. i've met kids who not only say the most hilariously captivating and incongruent things, but they do so in a way no adult mind could construct, and they do it consistently. for a man of dodgson's interests, such plasticity of childlike mind probably was completely enthralling and absorbing, and for completely nonsexual reasons, yet very magnetic reasons. so maybe he dedicated "alice" to her because it fit her personality, or perhaps she actually is a coauthor, if not overtly, but in subtle ways like planting the seeds in dodgson's minds of the various situations in the story
believe it or not, there are genuinely nonsexual reasons that some adults spend a lot of time around children and become captivated by them. and its normal, and its way more common: its the majority of life experience. ask any parent who befriends his own child, or any older relative, or caretaker. or even scattered situational settings, say a boarder who winds up being stuck at home with a child of another boarder or house's owner over an extended period of time: a completely innocent and normal friendship can develop, without any sexual overtones
of course, pedophiles do exist, and they are the scum of the earth. they deserve severe punishment, because of the threat they represent to children's well-begin. but exactly because of that, you need to be extremely careful with the charge of "pedophile!", it is not a charge to level lightly
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the usual saboteurs from the future, trying to preserving their pathetic little doomed timeline
"i'm going to run to canada if bush is elected! boo hoo!"
look you spineless assholes: if your society is going south, stay there and fight for it. fleeing means that you don't hold much stock in the strength of your own convictions, and instead parasitically depend on someone else to fight for your convictions
all of your freedoms you hold dear must constantly be protected and fought for. what, you think you fight for something once and it stays that way forever? no, every day is a fight against constant assaults against your freedoms, and this is the way it is, FOREVER, IN EVERY SOCIETY. this is the reality you live in, so grow a fucking backbone, stand your fucking ground, and fight the fucking assholes who infect your society
to anyone who threatens to flee the usa because of changes in society they don't like: you're a loser, you're a freeloader, and you ARE PART OF THE FUCKING PROBLEM
we need fighters who will fight for their home, not freeloading whiners
it seems that even with all your paid for government whores, you can't legislate against technological progress
maybe you should consider your only option: death. fucking parasites
creators: you have a choice too. you can sign a ridiculous stifling agreement with some lawyer assholes where they get the lions share of your creative effort, or you can self-distribute
the downside is it's totally free, the upside is it's totally free. this is not communist thinking, this is in fact a solid capitalist model: think of your digitized creative output as advertising, the same solid capitalist business model as good old FM radio or broadcast television... give it away for free, reap the side benefits. you get fabulous exposure, free advertising, and permanent presence and community building with fans. then you can tour, or show only in movie houses, or a number of other ancillary revenue streams available to you, capitalizing on your exposure
you are your own entrepreneur, with your own creative output. no more is your fate decided by some asshole in a suit in an office: you rise and fall on the sheer affinity of fans to your output. this is, in fact, capitalism at its finest. for those who say the internet is destroying the capitalism as represented by traditional media corporations: no, that's an oligopoly. monopolies and oligopolies, in fact, are a greater threat to healthy capitalism than communist thinking. free over the internet is capitalism at its finest, not communism
creators: make money the honest way, rather than making a deal with the devil that the internet has pretty much destroyed now as a viable avenue for you. help us destroy the financial parasites on our culture, who are attempting to warp our freedoms to grandfather their unnecessary existence into our societies
die bertelsmann, die time warner, just fucking die, die, die you useless rotten pile of lawyers and suits. WE DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE. DIE
i am a human being. i need only that premise to make my argument. you meanwhile, are buried in small ugly pointless tribal vendettas. you think you make your point by playing against american or russian identity, as if i am going to somehow attack or defend one or the other. as if i need either identity to make my point, as if i care about russia or the usa. fuck the usa, fuck russia. who cares about mindless nationalist nitwits? the coming age is pandemocracy. simply study the trendlines of history friend
resistance is futile. who am i? a westerner? an american? no, i am a human being, i am shed of such barbaric identities. your grandchildren will live in my world, and know the fruits of my ideology. i am not an imperialist, i am here to dissolve all empires. i am the ideology whose enemy is mindless indefensible nationalism: as silly as any religion. that you cross arbitrary pointless invisible lines and POOF human nature is suppose to be altered somehow? really? you believe that? you cross the urals, you cross the rio grande, you cross the bosporus, you cross the caucasus, and POOF fundamental human nature is radically altered? does gravity work differently too? please. a human being is a human being is a human being. the template of culture is but a frivolous fluid thing that changes only inconsequential tribal ephemera. go anywhere, and you find the same mix of the sad, the angry, the organized, the psychotic, the hopeful, the hopeless, the self-defeating, the industrious, etc. human nature is a constant across time and space
in the future, no one will call themselves russian, or american, or german, or canadian. there will be no identity save human. it is the trendline of history. study your history: in any expanse of current day empire: russia, china, arabia, usa, etc., in the distant past there used to exist thousands of identities and languages. go over one valley and it would be a completely different nation. but those old imperial centers dissolved, incorporated, and assimilated. so now where were thousands of identities, now there is only russian. where before there were thousands of identities, there is only han, etc
now extrapolate into the future. currently, we have old imperial centers: moscow, beijing, washington dc, london, tokyo, consuming and obliterating historical identities in their sphere of influence. this will only continue, unabated, unstoppable, in an era of jet air travel and the internet, all identities assimilating, converging, merging, until there is only one: human
so i'm sorry, sad little cynical misanthrope. you are in the dustbin of history. soon, thoughts like yours will only exist in a bit of dust in some empty old skulls. so what does it feel like to watch history pass you by?
i've enjoyed talking to you, antediluvian. its instructive and alternatingly comical and frightening, to be a tourist amongst the barbaric cruel ethnocentric thoughts of dead eras. now die, dinosaur
chimpanzee behavior?
does hyena behavior bother you?
if so, why?
if not, why?
you have a conceit: humans should not eat meat. it is a conceit full of holes. the question is: why can't you see those holes?
media corporations and their paid-for government whores are attempting to backdoor their oligopolistic unneeded parasitical existence into the internet age
but the people have spoken: we like our freedoms very much, and it is clear the internet has meant that your continued existence means compromising our freedoms in ways we don't like. so i guess you'll just have to die then, unnecessary media corporations
artists, writers, directors: you don't need old school distributors. there's a better, free, distributor: the internet. sure, you won't get pennies everytime someone sings your song in the shower (while some lawyer asshole gets the lion share of pennies) but you'll get fabulous exposure and advertising and presence. then you can tour, and make money the honest way
and in the reality of other nations, freedoms and liberties have been, and still are, horribly defiled ...and this has exactly fucking what to do with a national id card?!
there are countries in western europe that have greater protections for certain freedoms and liberties than in the united states. AND THEY HAVE A NATIONAL ID CARD
BECAUSE ITS FUCKING EASIER AND CHEAPER AND MORE CONVENIENT
where exactly does this fucking paranoid schizophrenic fantasy of national id card=gestapo raping your rights come from?
what the HELL is wrong with you paranoid retards?
"Without the right papers I will be denied the ability to seek work in a country founded on the very principles of liberty and freedom without government involvement."
why does the existence of the right papers before your ability to apply for work in any way nullifies any of the principles of liberty and freedom we both hold dear?
explain to me in rational terms (not paranoid hysterical hollywood terms) exactly how your liberty or freedoms have been abrogated by the existence of the need to prove who you are in any way whatsoever. i don't want fantasy sequences of imaginary gestapo tracking your every move. i want concrete real world effect on a genuine liberty. do you wish to have the freedom to pretend to be someone other than yourself? this is a constitutional protection!? maybe its to avoid paying taxes? you SHOULD pay taxes, to support the very country that values the liberty and freedom you hold so dear
what the HELL is wrong with you spastic hysterical paranoid nutjobs?
of government services?
(answer: of course you fucking do, everyone does)
then a national id simply makes that easier faster and cheaper
as for the police, the police are here to protect you from criminals. that you view them as some fascist force hellbent on hurting you and taking away your freedoms speaks volumes about your mental imbalances, not a valid commentary on reality
fucking spastic paranoid nutbags
in a rational logical way
not a hysterical fear addled paranoid schizophrenic fanboy way
explain to me exactly how a national id is the unstoppable slippery slope to slavery and fascism
jesus christ you fucking nutbags
additionally, i recognize:
1. the feds use your drivers license to the same effect they would use a national id. there's no difference. seriously. to believe there is is to be a spastic hysterical idiot
2. a drivers license, or a national id, are simply a necessary component of living in ANY society. it doesn't represent a threat to my freedom or privacy whatsoever. threats to my freedom or privacy come from laws concerning THE USE OF the id. in addition, WITHOUT a driver's license/ id, there is no way for you to access government services without filling out forms every time. it simply convenience and time and cost saving, and less bureaucracy at a national level than 50 different stupid repetitive systems
what is the fucking big deal?!
why do they talk about fascism, "papers please" and destruction of privacy and freedom?
it's just a damn national id card. do you drive? do you have a driver's license? same fucking thing. is the existence of your driver's license some sort of matrix-like conspiracy to utterly destro your individuality? no? then calm the fuck down
it's just a bizarre sort of rigid fear of the unknown, when if you have an actual functioning brain, there's no threat this card poses to anyone, anyhow
what a bunch of spastic hysterical idiots
its simply consulting the will of the people. what's western about that? furthermore, what culture exists where people prefer to be slaves and never be consulted about what they want from their government?
the idea that cultural differences leads to democracy not working in a particular society is extremely insulting to whatever culture you claim to speak for. you are basically saying the people in that society prefer to be slaves
being able to vote only to one bad candidate is not significantly better than being able to choose between 2 bad candidates (and the same corporations writting the laws behind both of them), and the media is too controlled to have in the big numbers anything related with free will in the population
yes, because in democracies, the media is strictly controlled, while in nondemocracies, it is completely free. furthermore, all candidates in democracies are chosen by the secret conspiracy of corporations and media execs. if you believe either of those these things, and that ONE candidate and COMPLETE CONTROL of the media (in nondemocracies) is therefore superior, or even remotely equivalent to democratic expression, you're a moron: you've replaced your intelligence with the most braindead and patently false form of cynicism. you even admit to it, you say "one bad candidate is not significantly better than being able to choose between 2 bad candidates". yeah, there's plenty wrong with corporate influence and media herd behavior in democracies. but as YOU say, it is still BETTER. "not significantly". LOL
so you'll choose the government where some asshole doesn't care what the hell you think to rule over you... because that's your culture. you're so full of shit
"contrary to what US propaganda tells you, those governments rule at consent and with support of those people"
well, i'm going to tell someone that you prefer mexican food over chinese food. if you protest, i'll say it is my culture not to consult you when i represent your interests, and its only western propaganda that you think that you should be consulted before something is done in your name without your consultation
pfffffffft
what a load of horsecrap
you either consult the people, or you don't. if you don't, you don't represent the will of the people. its pretty simple logic. i would like you to tell me the magical method in which a government can act in the name of the people... and never actually consult their will. meanwhile, to hide behind the veil of "culture" as the reason this is acceptable is completely lame and completely disrespectful of the people whose culture you are so denigrating, by portraying their culture as something in which they are happy to be slaves
a democracy's government constantly consults the will of the people, and so it is constantly realigned with the people's will. this is possible in any human culture that exists, ever has existed, or ever will. it is completely compatible with simple human nature, regardless of any cultural differences. so you can criticize democracy all you want, but this simple truth about democracy makes it better than all other governments because it makes democracy much more stable than other government types. its legitimacy is constantly being refreshed
meanwhile, in nondemocracies, the will of the people drifts apart from the will of the ruling class, whether monarch or totalitarian or oligarchy or theocracy or whatever. it may happen slowly, it may happen fast, it may happen in fits and starts, but nondemocracies experience an unstoppable increase in illegitimacy in the eyes of their people. there is no reconciliation between the people and the government built into the structure of the government, so no reconciliation happens. its a drifting apart
therefore, all nondemocracies are doomed the day they are born. it is only a matter of time before the agenda of the people and the agenda of the ruling class becomes horribly distant, and society disrupts
so the future of the world is pandemocracy. its simply a matter of time, no effort needed... its the only fix we know of to a simple, organic problem that no society can escape in any other way except adherence to democracy: legitimacy. people living in nondemocracies may have no experience or knowledge of democracy. if so, they are doomed to cycling between periods of revolution and tension: build up, release, build up, release, until such time they understand and finally adapt democracy. when they do that, they've just installed a pressure release valve in their society, and so there is no need for revolution anymore. it is perhaps distant for some countries, but if that society is composed of human beings, democracy is inevitable. its the lowest point in the gravity well: all other government types are not stable. so societies may bounce around types, but eventually, they reach the most stable state: democracy, the only government in which legitimacy is refreshed
tell me of another way to unify the will of the government and the will of the people than democracy (which is simply directly consulting their will, can't get simpler than that) and democracy will become a secondary governmental choice. until such time, democracy is the only valid, legitimate, and ideal form of government possible, over any population of human beings, because of its ability to manufacture legitimacy. this observation trumps all other features of other governments: your government doesn't matter if it is seen as illegitimate and social strife rises and rises until...
if that were true, you would spend your time attempting to reason with chimpanzees (take a look at the chompers in that mouth) to keep them from eating meat. additionally, you would hold chimpanzees to the same moral failure for eating the meat they frequently hunt with cruelty, even when other food options are around
but you don't
why? well gee, there must be something special about this human-human interaction going on, i have no idea what it is
pffffffffft
for the sake of the younger folk who think they are immortal
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"Get off your fucking high horse you anti social misfit. If I want to be pedantic I'm going to be pedantic and whiny little bitches like you sure aren't going to stop me."
LOL
currently you have me listed as a friend
could you update that and remove that status?
thanks
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in your comment, complete with the comment by tufte about menard's graph verbatim
the old joke about no one on slashdot following the link is not some sort of technical specification that must be understood and adhered to, its a mea culpa that slashdot readers, like you, suck
but, gee, thanks for reducing the comment thread to an inept braindead echo chamber
jackass
just take one of the most famous graphs from his book, and reproduce it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Napoleon's_Invasion_of_Russia
relabel the advancing french soldiers "good intentions for accountable government"
relabel the retreating french soldiers "obfuscation by entrenched special interests"
job done
anyone who spends a lot of time around children is a pedophile, like kindergarten teachers or nannies
unless you can point to a situation in which SEXUAL interest is suggested, to suggest he is a pedophile is completely spurious
for example, his pictures: is there anything even remotely erotic about them? innocence is another thing adults are fascinated about children, and "innocence" does not directly connote sexual innocence. being genuinely unaware of and unspoilt by adult concerns: economic innocence, social convention innocence, racist and ethnocentric innocence, knowledge of mortality innocence, moral innocence, etc
and for dedicating a book to a child: in what way is that indication of sexuality? people can be captivated by other people, including children, for all sorts of reasons. maybe this alice was just hilariously precocious and a wise ass and sort of a savant of the absurdist commentary. i've met kids who not only say the most hilariously captivating and incongruent things, but they do so in a way no adult mind could construct, and they do it consistently. for a man of dodgson's interests, such plasticity of childlike mind probably was completely enthralling and absorbing, and for completely nonsexual reasons, yet very magnetic reasons. so maybe he dedicated "alice" to her because it fit her personality, or perhaps she actually is a coauthor, if not overtly, but in subtle ways like planting the seeds in dodgson's minds of the various situations in the story
believe it or not, there are genuinely nonsexual reasons that some adults spend a lot of time around children and become captivated by them. and its normal, and its way more common: its the majority of life experience. ask any parent who befriends his own child, or any older relative, or caretaker. or even scattered situational settings, say a boarder who winds up being stuck at home with a child of another boarder or house's owner over an extended period of time: a completely innocent and normal friendship can develop, without any sexual overtones
of course, pedophiles do exist, and they are the scum of the earth. they deserve severe punishment, because of the threat they represent to children's well-begin. but exactly because of that, you need to be extremely careful with the charge of "pedophile!", it is not a charge to level lightly