Letters to the Editor

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Our country is barely smarter than a fifth grader -- no wonder it's drowning in religious fundamentalism and political ideologues on both sides, argues Susan Jacoby.
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  • This article is pissing about nothing.

    All I see is Jacoby plying her own fetishes and complaining that not everybody else agrees with them.

    For half the time I agree with her, the other half I totally disagree.

    Topics:

    Growing influence of religion in civic life: So what? Powerless people will resort to anything to help them along. Tell me what the left is doing to the right to make them feels so helpless, then you have youyr answer.

    ...laziness, reckless emotion and prejudice: 'Laziness' as in not wanting to engage a Borg like left that agrees it will impose itself on others without question? Why would anyone bother? 'Prejudice' has been razzed for nothing, it is a good and powerful tool. The left is very good at being prejudiced too, it just chooses to ignore its own prejudices.

    ...successful campaign by right-wing ideologues to smear liberals as snooty "elites: I got news for you, dingbat, nobody had to convince anybody. You people ARE arrogant fucks who think you know everything.

    ...anti-vaccination movement: Yes, government is all good, and knows everything. Until it is discovered that pumping people full of mercury is poisonous. And noooo, there is no agenda inside government to control people through the compounds and chemicals being put into food, water, and drugs. Except that new evidence is emerging from Europe about the mind control properties of fouoride. It is all about the left covering up for the corporate fascists is all-- hope you own your crimes.

    ...his unsupported conclusion that such disparities if they exist, are more important than the very different cultural messages girls and boys receive about whether they can expect to succeed in science: Remember Summers got shut down for uttering an opinion. Why does Jacoby allow herself to arrogate that her opinion is superior to his opinion? It smacks of more lefty arrogance. And you want to be taken seriously? All Summers wanted was to spur a dialog. They got rid of him and now impose on us all the supposed 'right' answer. fuck you. PC mind control of the worst kind. Then you wonder why the rest of the country laughs at the left?

    ...sees no reason why they can't be expanded to include great works by people (women and racial minorities) previously excluded from the canon: Name ONE great movie directed by a woman. You can stuff 27 Dresses into the film history canon just to satisfy your fetish for equal treatment, but it would be a joke.

    ...religious assaults on the theory of evolution: Need I remind everyone, respect others' FAITH based mindsets and also, I, NOR YOU were around 1 million or 1 billion years ago. NONE of us know for certain that there never was an Evil Demon setting up the world to look as if it had a certain past natural history. Granted, the evidence is pretty convincing from a worm's eye view, but it is not a God's eye view, only a limited answer handed to us, by nature, by circumstance, by a god/gods maybe? Nobody knows. I see both sides, evolution and creationism, as right AND as wrong.

    For all the talk about wanting open dialog between groups of thinkers, you can see everyday on Broadsheet how I am harangued for having a different viewpoint and all but shut out for expressing it to others. Such FAIRNESS. Such OPEN DIALOG we have here. I do not think more than a small fracton of women on there even bother trying to see things from my point of view in the first place.

  • Asinistra

    Milton couldn't carry Dylan's jock strap.

    Of course not. Milton was long dead by then.

  • To clarify

    I do not consider the left or right to be much different from each other, both are flavors of big government corporate fascism.

    "You can keep your left, you can keep your liberal. If the price of trusting the left is to be poisoned, spyed on, told what to do by government, then you can severely fuck off."

    Have you NOT been paying attention? What part of:

    A) Poisoned - The current administration's EPA not enforcing air quality levels, EPA also undercutting restrictions on mercury content in our waterways, and the administration cutting the budget of product inspectors of goods received from overseas,

    One hand (left) and the other (right) are BOTH evil in their unique ways. The right allows mor poisons into the environment, the LEFT all but FORCES more poisons, in the form of nasty [irresponsible all-but-placebo yet harmful in their own mind control way] drugs like Ritalin and Prozac into our bodies.

    Both sides are demons trying to poison the system, be it nature, or us.

    B) Spied On - Do I even have to list the FISA violations undertaken by our government, the databases that the Dept. of Homeland Security is creating, the silent warrant to look at people's library usage, the proposal for giving utility meter readers the responsibility to look into people's homes for any signs of unlawful activity?

    Clinton era violations were rampant but kept underground. Both left and right look forward to the new world order brought about by endless snooping on Americans. Democrat? Republican? It is about two mafia families vying for control of the domain. I do not see much changing if the Dums come back into the White House, as has been amply proven by the do-nothing, know-nothing leftists who came back into power in 06. I do see more big government, more oversight and control of everyone, more forced drug taking by those who protest or by the weak and the innocent.

    C) Told What to Do - Do you mean things like No-fly lists, a national ID card, getting finger-printed if you want to be a real-estate agent?

    The LEFT is quite proud of what is happening in this country now, with all the new control mechanisms being implemented. You cannot pretend otherwise.

    the left never touted itself as the LESS GOVERNMENT group.

  • Gods

    brightstar65 wrote:

    Granted, the evidence is pretty convincing from a worm's eye view, but it is not a God's eye view, only a limited answer handed to us, by nature, by circumstance, by a god/gods maybe?

    There are NO gods, or "God" - never was, never will be. We are orphans in a purposeless cosmos and there are no cosmic sugar daddies or "Santas" to hold your hand. As researcher Michael Persinger has shown, all of these arrive via micro-seizures in the temporal lobes of brains. Hence, people like you mistake brain aberrations for revealing reality.

    Evolution, meanwhile is a FACT - and we fully have the evidence in toto for macro-evolution. If you are able to understand it, you would do yourself a favor by consulting:

    http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section4.html

    In the meantime, I heartily prescribe a course of electro-convulsive therapy for you. It would help to re-order your obviously deformed neurons, and make you better able to participate as a grown adult (as opposed to a backward, whiny child) in online debates, discussions.

    Your regressive, knuckle-dragging modus operandi gets tiresome after the 50th time. Do yourself a favor and get that ECT. I'd say three months of it, three times a day ought to fix that brain of yours. Or what you call a "brain".