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Re: Warming up to Obama
« on: August 09, 2009, 08:06:25 pm »
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"Unfortunately pseudo is a word that can be attached to most political movements... the truth is a lot of people join these things because its the popular thing to do, or because someone told them to do it. In either case they don't know why they do and say the things they do, they just follow others. I have to say, I have even less respect for people like that, than the millions of people who ignore politics entirely and don't even vote, at least those people aren't doing damage."

You have a point there. Plato certainly was spot-on in saying that there are three wrungs in the brain (autonomic/automatic nerve system- emotional emigdala- philosophical prefrontal cortex), and that most people have a tendency of acting withe first as hedonistic drones.

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Lets just say, I wouldn't support any policy that didn't take a self imposed apocalypse seriously. You'd think most people would agree with that...

"Now o'er half the world, nature is dead/ And wicked dreams abuse/ The curtain'd sleep," for a reason. Homo sapiens never build a safe-proof to protect against instinctual greed and sloviness, do they?

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That's why it needs to be funded.

Well, scientists have made presentations to public officials, so simply continuing that simply won't do any good.... what we need is to shut the mouths of the oil giants and Pat Roberts of this world and prove just how sickly they're being. Granted, if done to simply attack them, that is argumente ad hominem, but a logical argument isn't always the only means to solving a sticky issue....
"Young heads are giddy, and young hearts are warm/ And make mistakes for manhood to reform," (Poe).