"We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics minds his own business. We say he has no business here at all." -Pericles
For those who don't know, Pericles was an Athenian statesman, more responsible for the acceptance of democracy than anyone else in antiquity. Though Athens was a direct democracy comprising some 300,000 members of the ecclesia (sovereign political body comprising all eligible male citizens), you still have a fundamental civic responsibility to be educated in political affairs, to analyze issues and make a decision based on reasoned observation, but why bother?
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." -Also Pericles
From watching Ken Miller's recent lecture at Case Western University (whole 2hour talk can be seen here), one point really stands out for me, that for 'Intelligent Design' a supposedly non-religious packaging of creationism to be accepted, it must go through a simple process that evolution also went through;
If Intelligent Design supporters are so confident in their research and findings which supposedly vindicate the literal truth of the Bible, why do they skip the most important process in getting their theory accepted?
As much as I'd want to see Bush impeached, overhaul the legislative and executive branch to increase transparency and accountability, introduce a sensible drug policy of legalization and regulation, reverse the unprecedented growth of surveillance and 'counter-terrorism' measures and reduce the insane spending on military research, I've come to the conclusion that people are inherently -though many not practically- afraid of change.
In fact conservatives have made a political dynasty out of this very principal, when Bush's approval rating shot to eighty-something percent following 9/11, people wanted their world to stay the same and any new legislation -no matter the ramifications- which kept people safe to heat microwave dinners and ride the subway like they did last week was accepted. Of course ostensibly life remains the same, it's just the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are swept into the dustbin of Room 101, so that in the future, when your children are delayed at their municipal checkpoint, the slow erosion of freedoms so subtle, they wonder; "was it always this bad?"
I don't care if you're a liberal or a conservative, the adimistration in the white house is not conservative, they add this paradoxical prefix 'neo', new-conservative, it's a contradiction in terms, and you shouldn't be accepting of what is probably the most radical administration in our lifetimes, simply because they simultaneously support 'traditional values). Historical Repetition; Augustus essentially subverted the power of the Roman Senate over decades by slow consolidation of senate-approved honors and titles untill he effectively established an inheritable autocracy (to appease this disparity of conservatism, he made divorces harder to percure and disallowed foreigners to marry citizens).
My condemnation would be the same if this were a democratic administration in place of a republican one and partisanship should be irrelevant given the train of userpations of basic ethics, international laws and human rights. Though returning to my original point, if suddenly we were forced to see the logical conclusions of what this... oh really? 1984 you say... erm, well. As long as that's far of in the distance, and well... we're all safe and secure and the same as we'd always been on the surface... why change horses in mid-stream? When does the stream end? Uh... when the War on Terror ends of course.
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Why are there telescopes like Frank in this world?
Oh, my first appeal to moderators, I only wish that this person had not posted anonymously, your comment is one of the best I have seen in a while.
Clearly this is just the beginning of work whose logical conclusion is Bill Gates merging with the Helios core.
Two words, Miles Davis.
"We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics minds his own business. We say he has no business here at all." -Pericles
For those who don't know, Pericles was an Athenian statesman, more responsible for the acceptance of democracy than anyone else in antiquity. Though Athens was a direct democracy comprising some 300,000 members of the ecclesia (sovereign political body comprising all eligible male citizens), you still have a fundamental civic responsibility to be educated in political affairs, to analyze issues and make a decision based on reasoned observation, but why bother?
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." -Also Pericles
Coward is your second name.
Their own subjective standards, which I assume include but are most certainly limited to;
1. Does it 'compete' with Firefox by incorporating its tabbed browsing?
2. Will it be out at a point between the present and the calculable future?
Are you telling me that politicians are now staging things like this? I mean what next? The impromptu photo-op?
From watching Ken Miller's recent lecture at Case Western University (whole 2hour talk can be seen here), one point really stands out for me, that for 'Intelligent Design' a supposedly non-religious packaging of creationism to be accepted, it must go through a simple process that evolution also went through;
Novel Scientific Claim > Research > Peer Review > Scientific Concensus > Classroom & Textbook
Intelligent Design proponents are doing the follow;
Intelligent Design "Theory" > Classroom & Textbook
If Intelligent Design supporters are so confident in their research and findings which supposedly vindicate the literal truth of the Bible, why do they skip the most important process in getting their theory accepted?
Meanwhile we have Ken Ham already building a 25 million dollar creation science museum.
As much as I'd want to see Bush impeached, overhaul the legislative and executive branch to increase transparency and accountability, introduce a sensible drug policy of legalization and regulation, reverse the unprecedented growth of surveillance and 'counter-terrorism' measures and reduce the insane spending on military research, I've come to the conclusion that people are inherently -though many not practically- afraid of change.
In fact conservatives have made a political dynasty out of this very principal, when Bush's approval rating shot to eighty-something percent following 9/11, people wanted their world to stay the same and any new legislation -no matter the ramifications- which kept people safe to heat microwave dinners and ride the subway like they did last week was accepted. Of course ostensibly life remains the same, it's just the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are swept into the dustbin of Room 101, so that in the future, when your children are delayed at their municipal checkpoint, the slow erosion of freedoms so subtle, they wonder; "was it always this bad?"
I don't care if you're a liberal or a conservative, the adimistration in the white house is not conservative, they add this paradoxical prefix 'neo', new-conservative, it's a contradiction in terms, and you shouldn't be accepting of what is probably the most radical administration in our lifetimes, simply because they simultaneously support 'traditional values). Historical Repetition; Augustus essentially subverted the power of the Roman Senate over decades by slow consolidation of senate-approved honors and titles untill he effectively established an inheritable autocracy (to appease this disparity of conservatism, he made divorces harder to percure and disallowed foreigners to marry citizens).
My condemnation would be the same if this were a democratic administration in place of a republican one and partisanship should be irrelevant given the train of userpations of basic ethics, international laws and human rights. Though returning to my original point, if suddenly we were forced to see the logical conclusions of what this... oh really? 1984 you say... erm, well. As long as that's far of in the distance, and well... we're all safe and secure and the same as we'd always been on the surface... why change horses in mid-stream? When does the stream end? Uh... when the War on Terror ends of course.