McCain: Barack Obama wants to spread the wealth around!
[Crowd boos.]
Some say McCain should have been using this line from the beginning, that it would have helped his position. I have no doubt that it would have. Do you see a problem with this? I do.
What, exactly, is wrong with spreading the wealth around? This is music to my ears and to the ears of anyone who has half a brain. To me, McCain is helping Obama’s position. If I were in great need, I would really appreciate a little bit of someone else’s wealth. And if I have more than I need, I’m willing to give up some of it for someone else’s need. How sick is it (rather, it is a symptom of the sickness of our mindset) to disparage someone who wants to take what someone has no need of and give it to someone who needs it?
But nobody in charge sees it that way. If they do, they must keep it well hidden. Where have all the socialists gone?
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
quote and thought
This should have been posted here to begin with.
With telegraphy and photography leading the way, a new definition of information came into being. Here was information that rejected the necessity of interconnectedness, proceeded without context, argued for instancy against historical continuity, and offered fascination in place of complexity and coherence.
…
Like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, we are awash in information. And all the sorcerer has left us is a broom. Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems. To say it still another way: The milieu in which Technopoly flourishes is one in which the tie between information and human purpose has been severed, i.e., information appears indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, in enormous volume and at high speeds, and disconnected from theory, meaning, or purpose.
All of this has called into being a new world. …It is a world in which the idea of human progress, as Bacon expressed it, has been replaced by the idea of technological progress. The aim is not to reduce ignorance, superstition, and suffering but to accommodate ourselves to the requirements of new technologies.
-From Technopoly by Neil Postman
On another subject, football has taken the place of other social gatherings. For what other reasons did or do people gather in large groups? Church, concerts, festivals, holidays, grand speeches; although church is the only one that should take place on a weekly basis. Maybe. It bothers me that all this hoopla over a bloody and warlike sport has gradually supplanted other, more peaceful, interaction-, morality- and growth-oriented gatherings. You don’t gain anything by watching football, and you feel a sense of brotherhood, I guess, with some people who are also just cheering for a football team. What is the purpose? Just a thought.
With telegraphy and photography leading the way, a new definition of information came into being. Here was information that rejected the necessity of interconnectedness, proceeded without context, argued for instancy against historical continuity, and offered fascination in place of complexity and coherence.
…
Like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, we are awash in information. And all the sorcerer has left us is a broom. Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems. To say it still another way: The milieu in which Technopoly flourishes is one in which the tie between information and human purpose has been severed, i.e., information appears indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, in enormous volume and at high speeds, and disconnected from theory, meaning, or purpose.
All of this has called into being a new world. …It is a world in which the idea of human progress, as Bacon expressed it, has been replaced by the idea of technological progress. The aim is not to reduce ignorance, superstition, and suffering but to accommodate ourselves to the requirements of new technologies.
-From Technopoly by Neil Postman
On another subject, football has taken the place of other social gatherings. For what other reasons did or do people gather in large groups? Church, concerts, festivals, holidays, grand speeches; although church is the only one that should take place on a weekly basis. Maybe. It bothers me that all this hoopla over a bloody and warlike sport has gradually supplanted other, more peaceful, interaction-, morality- and growth-oriented gatherings. You don’t gain anything by watching football, and you feel a sense of brotherhood, I guess, with some people who are also just cheering for a football team. What is the purpose? Just a thought.
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