When did involuntary exploitation and individual discrimination become fashionable?

When did people embrace and seek to normalize behaviors which constitute evolutionary dysfunction? That is behaviors which sabotage the viability of a society.

Our liberal fiscal policies are the least of our concerns.

You’re preaching to the choir about Communism on this blog. I really hope you’re visiting the folks at Democratic Underground or the Huffington Post — They’re the ones who NEED the information. SRSLY.

PS: I am currently reading Lasky’s “It Didn’t Start with Watergate,” and I twigged a moderate Republican friend of mine to the Venona files. She still tends to give the liberals the benefit of the doubt.

Neo, I’m glad you posted his speech. I listened to the whole thing, and was quite moved: I didn’t hear it live (and yes, I also remember Rosemary Woods!). I was in my Democrat, fingers-in-ears phase, or I would have heard and recognized the America my parents (Goldwater Republicans) taught me about as a child.

So last night was the first time I ever saw it. I pray that Romney, Ryan, and all patriotic Americans take up the challenge to make the case for the America Way again. That’s the thing Karl Rove & Co. never get: it’s not just about how you win elections, but WHY.

night, night

I harbor no doubts that Artfldgr is an actual person. I work with younger versions on a daily basis during the school year. IMO Artfldgr has 2 issues he needs to work hard to face and overcome. The first issue is a need to be acknowledged by all that he is brilliant and accomplished. Often in cases like this the more he feverishly attempts to convince the world, the less the world listens. They stop listening because he’s putting out too much info too fast. They stop listening because after awhile people grow tired of the some old lecture about his vast knowledge and the listeners utter lack of said knowledge. They stop listening because they do not believe there is a real, sensitive person behind all the words and exaltations. AND, he does not recognize the individuals he is addressing (lecturing) as individuals. They don’t know the minutiae of what he knows and therefore they are second rate minds.

I repeat, Artfldgr, one does not need to know the detailed biological process of decay to recognize when something in rotten through and through. A good sense of smell is adequate.

The other, and most important issue, is a lack of social skills. The things that fit the rest of us like a layer of skin are not yet a part of his camouflage skills. We take in a wide assortment of physical cues, words, inflections, prose style, etc. and form an understanding, imperfect but reliable, to navigate through society. Artfldgr lacks that important attribute. Thus he is stuck in a place where it is the world versus Artfldgr and at best he manages to live his daily life in a DMZ.

Artfldgr who have assimilated much knowledge. Turn your attention to how rational for the most part, intelligent for the most part people here are as they engage is social conversation. You don’t have to be sincere, you merely need to acquire the skills that make it appear you are sincere and respect others just as you want them to respect you. Its not a one way street or a dead end street. Its a freeway with multiple lanes moving in all directions. People can arrive at the same destination through multiple, sometimes convoluted paths. Respect that and you will find respect mirrored back.

We want you to be real but you had better get ready.

Could be. The amount of info Art generates is easily assembled by a team or an autistic “genius,” led astray by “voices.”

Sometimes distractions, that is to make the subject other than what the Author intends, are the whole point.

I’m not saying that’s what Art is, but I would like some obective proof. Let’s see some pictures and published studies and historical background and peer review.

We may be getting a smosh posh. The intrinsic value of Art’s comments, his very real convincing individual personality, and his general agreement with our thought processes, keep us from questioning his motive. Maybe his motive is mere distraction like in WWII where Eisenhower saved so many lives by “distracting” the enemy.

Art, provide some objective proof. We demand it.

I read Mein Kampf in high school and reread it within the last 20 years. I’ve read many books about history, particularly on Soviet, Cuban, and modern Chinese history. Yada, yada, yada.

Artfldgr is brilliant. No one here would deny that. His knowledge is encyclopedic. But I doubt anyone who regularly visits this blog needs detailed, continuous history lessons about the utter failures of the left side of the spectrum. We recognize the core issues.

Artfldgr, you need to work on your social skills in between devising counter sniper technology and all your endless list of the things you do that prove you are brilliant.

We here have our own funds of knowledge which are quite broad, whether they be financial, medical, biochemical, political, historical, or psychotherapeutic, and that they do not necessarily overlap with yours means little in a negative sense. The voices raised here are complementary, and from that we all get some wisdom and some strength, you hopefully included.

I never said, nor do I believe, that most people aren’t operating from a very small knowledge base, or even ignorance for quite a few. You keep describing me as much more naive than I am, and I don’t know what you’re basing that on.

I was speaking only of the regular commenters on this blog, and specifically about knowledge of Reagan (I think I’ve tried to point that out in 2 previous comments in this thread). I would say that many of them (not all, of course) also have more knowledge of the work of conservative writers in general, and probably of history, than the average person.

So you are describing me as having a point of view that I don’t have.

Also, by the way, I don’t think I “know” Romney. But I certainly have studied him, read a lot of articles about him, and read a fairly lengthy book about him, “The Real Romney.” I try to learn about things and people before I write about them, but of course there are only a few subjects I’d say I know about in depth (ballet and poetry are two). And even then, there are probably plenty of people who surpass me in their knowledge.

So I don’t relate to what you’re writing about me.