If she thinks independent thinking is difficult in Europe she ought to
try actually _living_ in the U. S.
It's routinely villified here.
Bret Cahill
By "independent thinking," she probably does not mean
"delusional thinking," which will get you laughed at anywhere,
even on Usenet.
> It's routinely villified here.
Don't go getting paranoid, now.
Fortunately, American Pharmacorpwhore Inc. has developed
completely new generations of neuroleptics, with less severe
side effects than those of the ancien regime, to deal with your
problems. At Walmacht, we're making these available at the
price of 4 bux a bottle. Call us crazy, sure... like a desert fox.
re: unorthodox thinking
It's inherently not beluved
As Thomas Kuhn points out about normative science, and so
I'll hereaby project Kuhn's paradigms processes to all kinds of issues
The oddball, egghead, pencil neck geek, pswaydo-intellectual, weirdo,
crazy, tennis shoe wearer, and blah bleh
is indeed rhetorically at the mercy of the asses (masses) and glib
bastardes aka media mongers
When I ran for the Geogia legislature thrice, I put my ego on the
line, and thus vulnerable to
bbs and pellets if not bombs
Kooky Cohen was dinner table comment substance: I semi-baited to get
publicity
Moral: screw em if they don't accept ideas that an ad agency or p.r.
smoothy hadn't conjured up, the dumb shites
Reality in the real world is frequently if not exclusively about horse-
apples seling to the bull-shooters & versa-vice
I think that is valid enough, since Kuhn is essentially
projecting general social tendencies onto the process
of science.
> The oddball, egghead, pencil neck geek, pswaydo-intellectual, weirdo,
> crazy, tennis shoe wearer, and blah bleh
> is indeed rhetorically at the mercy of the asses (masses) and glib
> bastardes aka media mongers
> When I ran for the Geogia legislature thrice, I put my ego on the
> line, and thus vulnerable to
> bbs and pellets if not bombs
Just recently, a study about the personality of leaders
was all over the press. It was found that not only do
narcissists self-select to leadership roles, but people
also have a tendency to follow narcissists. That
shouldn't be a big surprise, but indicates that maybe
your problem was a lack of sufficient narcissism to
overrun your hecklers with your dominance.
> Kooky Cohen was dinner table comment substance: I semi-baited to get
> publicity
>
> Moral: screw em if they don't accept ideas that an ad agency or p.r.
> smoothy hadn't conjured up, the dumb shites
Elections are about personalities, not ideas, generally
speaking. Hell, if Socrates had been a little more sweet,
I'm sure they would have let him off.
> Reality in the real world is frequently if not exclusively about horse-
> apples seling to the bull-shooters & versa-vice-
Yes, of course.
Two wrongs don't make a right but there's no rational basis to focus
on Israel more than Darfur.
In fact there's something wrong with any American who focuses on
foreign policy more than domestic policy.
Bret Cahill
> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1030117.html
"About 500 million Spanish speakers are exposed almost daily to biased
and one-sided reports about the Israeli- Palestinian conflict,"
Just imagine that!
Populism is the only way to go but that doesn't change the fact that
the majority are often or usually wrong.
Bret Cahill
"The majority are always wrong."
-- Nietzsche
A gutsy secular European whom morally defends Israel is unfortunately
remarkable