Then how do we answer why you do? Bexcause you are a prejudiced and partisan nutcase!!
(and as to your stupid follow-up accusing her of no tresponding...well (chuckle) people can folow the posting history (chuckle twice! You are so careless!!)
OK. Listen Nebhob: you pressed me relentlessly awhile back, to explicate for you the reason(s) why I considered you to be a phoney. Now, I am reluctant to criticize unless I believe that something valuable and good may result from it. However, having said that--what follows is simply an opinion. Whether or not you use it as feedback which can be useful to you--well,that is entirely up to you.
You are known by the company you keep. You are known by who and what you repudiate, and by who and what you do not. So what does your posting history tell us?
Firstly, you have an extremely affected style; you project an image of "politeness" :-), but you also pretend to an intellectual superiority. Seldom do you miss an opportunity to make either claim. Nor do you miss an opportunity to pretend to a high minded impartiality.
But are you "polite"? Are you impartial? Are you truly "intelligent". In my opinion your claims to being representative of such qualities are suspect. Thus do I call you a phoney.
Further, you choose your words with what can only be described as a malicious intent to foil truth and to obscure reason. I believe it was E who made this point in a different context, and in her own words. But I think she was experiencing the same sense of disingenuousness from you as (I dare say) everyone here feels...even your "friends". The fact that your "accord" is generally with people like the "name caller", exposes the shallowness of your dignity and the irrelevance of your claim to moral concerns.
How often have I seen you express your anger through milking the fangs of others? When ugly little name callers are polluting the air with the stench of their own vomit and bile--who steps in to soothe, assure, encourage, and stroke them? YES! YOU DO!! So long as they are on the "right" side of your religious and political prejudices, you glad-hand them, fawn over them, and kisskiss them. It is because of your extreme partiality, while pretending a high-minded and intellectually neutral impartiality, that I call you a phoney. It is because of the anger, scorn, and contempt which you express through others--rather than face to face--that I call you "phoney".
You never miss the chance to explain how "polite" you are. Yet you never overlook an opportunity to cheer on those who satisfy your desire for expressing the viciousness and ugliness that you profess and pretend to be above. That is why I consider you a phoney.
The distasteful intermingling of the pretentious and the shallow: what is this if it is not PHONEY?
You might be interested to know that, at some level, the pathetic name callers have as much scorn for you as you secretly hold for them. Your mutual admiration society is a treacherous nest of slithering vipers. When I walk amongst them I wear heel guards. You obviously require no such protection from your own kind; but do not be deceived that you are not known and judged by the company you keep.
Do you know how much respect you would gain if you would express your hatred and prejudice directly, instead of through the puppetry of mental midgets whom you secretly scorn?
Being a decent human being is about more than merely being "smart". It is surely more than about being "cute". And yes...it is about more than becoming hidebound and anal as regards a particular religious, political, or cultural bias. It is also about more, Neocon, than buying "friends" by being an insincere jerk.
In this SI village of toadyism, I thought you might appreciate some direct honesty. This is how I experience you, Neocon. I am not giving you my opinion to debate it with you. I have more productive things to do. I just wanted you to know why I considered you a phoney. You pressed me for the answer several times; and after careful consideration I have decided that an honest disclosure to you could be useful and beneficial. Of course, you might simply dismiss my feedback out of hand. Some people are, after all, incapable of accepting honest criticism. That, however, would be your own choice to make. I can only share with you how I experience you. I like you well enough to give you the truth...and to offer it to you as a sharing rather than as a put-down.
I feel your anger when you are milking the fangs of misanthropic vipers. I feel your scorn for them as you "politely" leave to run an errand. You profess a redoubtable morality--even a nobility. But your behaviour belies your cultivated pretences of cordiality, impartiality, and moral largesse. It is this huge schism between the pretend man and the actual man which causes me to experience you as a phoney. And it is my sympathy for you which moves me to give you honest feedback, and to simply leave it in your hands.
Yes, Neocon. We are known by the company we keep. I mistrust a man who walks amongst vipers--particularly when he walks in bare feet. Kisskiss.
BTW, I am about to sit down to a rather modest repast of poached salmon. I will try to steer a considerate course between an overzealous submission to an unjustified craving--and (of course) an overt capitulation to an overly refined consideration for the poor and the afflicted (without, in any case, neglecting the opportunity which they afford for the exercise of moral pity). At the same time, however, one must ensure that a proper and appropriate consideration and confidence is reposed in the recommendations expressed in our daily food allowance tables. To be obliging in this regard would seem a minimal concession to the legitimate assumption of moral superiority which human progress has condescended to attach itself to while it attempts to avoid repudiation of the generally recognized dominance of the Western moral tradition ...
It is a prophylactic necessity to implement certain precautions--especially with seafood...
I'm out to run an errand, but if anyone wishes to discuss this with me during the next 3 minutes and 46 seconds, I will make myself available for a response...
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If you are considering going out it may be worth contemplating what advantage might perhaps be gained by instead choosing a quiet evening at home with your loved ones. I will be singing a few carols with my wife as we try to shape and mould the moral qualities which are quiescent and so malleable in the young. Drive safely all... |
