Parity. Fairness. Xenophobia. Heartfelt compassion. Good people all with thin skins. The world is not an easy place. The whining of poor babies echoes loudly from here to the Martian sunrise. The stiff cries of hold my hand are deafening…..and often time a counter weight.
Too much the demeaning, the demonizing. Too much the self righteousness, the closed mindedness, the self importance. Too much the liberalizing efforts of the universal comforters. The store gets given away to those who work it not.
The fierce battles rage on. The rights of the group and the membership therein. Membership is a thing open to passions and reasons and fears and such. The melting pot of old does not always melt. It does not always blend. It is at mercy to the ingredients in the stew and the stew often has uncooperative parts, the main ingredients rancid, the diced additives being not of a combining kind.
Staunch defenders of the faith are oftentimes intolerant. The non narrow us is the over ripe other.
Battlegrounds. Power is often to save face and place, often a trip for the hard relentless. The power is not me…diffuse it, challenge it, break it. the enemy.
Cohesion not when there are prizes to be won, sacred cows to be hidden, ridden, enemies to love to hate. Thugs can marshal the forces of the club…bring harm and grief… trump peace and joy and love and understanding. For a good peace the thugs have to be noble thugs. A good peace … not often.
By Matthew Gray, Foreign Affairs CNN World
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/09/the-osama-bin-laden-conspiracy-theories/?hpt=Sbin
http://www.economist.com/node/18651184?story_id=18651184
Elizabeth Arrot Voice of America
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The dumb …… the honored creed. The rancid bastards …… the true…..the thrill..
Dominance Games: Thought in the marketplace of ideas
Posted in Commentary, current events, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags Commentary, current events, Democracy, God, Government, Lies damned lies and statistics, Marketplace of ideas, opinion, Philosophy, political commentary, political education, political fiction, politics, power, Righteousness, social criticism, Social Media, Social Sciences, writing on May 23, 2011 by B SchiffAlways the marketplace of ideas. Always the good, the vile, the trenchant. The ugly, the dividable, the constant. The ill formed, the dense. Always the right to think …uncooked, overcooked, burnt out. Undeveloped, lacking in substance, fact or logical base. Slick, hateful. mundane. Self assured, self righteous. Grounded in the name of God and the angels.
Grand traditions of thought … right; the instigation of prickly combat, the plays for hypothesis,synthesis, thesis. Ideas flourish and blooms a thousand roses and food to feed millions. Knowledge: study, combat, brass knuckles, rolling in dirt. Good thought triumphs over bad, matched in the cauldron of public discourse. This is so.
The battle of the network thoughts can be a supreme battle…. a ratings winner… the best damned scripted reality show on all media all the time, on all social media all the time, on all thug actions all the time. Dream the dream. Open the floor to pure imagination, examination. Winners win. Losers lose. The vanquished get clobbered and virtue accedes as always to put up winners. Grand spectacle here. Grand spectacle there. Grand spectacle everywhere.
Allow for the wins of the neanderthal chest thumpers. Access to implementation of words and deeds is proof of God’s favor… the win closes off discussion…eliminates virtue in the demeaned rancid other…closes off rematch or challenge. The game is of but power and self protection. The game is not of the ideas of soft hearted dupes. Staunch honorable true believers think good thoughts, demand proper interpretations of all others. Never give a sucker an even break. Never give a challenger a voice. …. Democracy is not for the weak. Only for those who can game it…Here there and everywhere. Spring, summer or fall.
Behind the sacred god of gods, the freedom to be a rotten bastard can achieve many seedy ends. Dregs of losers get kicked around in the streets. The exchange of thought in the marketplace of ideas gives virtue to those who wish to shut down the marketplace.
David Crary msnbc.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43120673
Politico
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0511/Gingrich_says_he_and_Ryan_are_on_the_same_side.html
Asra Q Nomani The Daily Beast.com
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-14/osama-bin-ladens-porn-and-muslim-hypocrisy-on-sex/2/
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