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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (16528)	3/6/2003 1:57:03 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 25898

zonder is a liar, nothing can be believed or trusted from her posts... Gee, you appropriate the truth on your behalf so easily. Judge, jury and moron in your own mind. Rarely does one find someone whose profundity is only in his vacuity. Evidently, everything valuable was destroyed at Ground Zero. Thank you for truth in advertising. Perhaps, Mind Zero would be even better. Read why so-called conservatives support the "war": TV versus Web. I've yet to meet a warmonger who isn't addicted to television watching, nor a peace person who is. Peace people tend to be better educated, avid readers of history (actual books!), and attached to alternative news sources. When a Bush administration official makes a claim about the perfidy of Iraq and the threat it presents to Americans, peace people Google it in order to verify it, and by doing so discover all the lies and distortions. In contrast, TV people are manipulated by the incessant hype of television: "Showdown with Saddam!!!" Talk Radio:Insofar as conservatives listen to this stuff as a source of information, they have also become anti-intellectual, unreflective, arrogant, prideful, loudmouthy, and generally stupid. Perhaps instead of embodying a new mode of popular education that can save the country, talk radio has merely dumbed down conservatism and turned it into a megaphone for fascist ideology. Intrinsic corruption. Under this view, American conservatism is inherently and hopelessly bankrupt because of its lack of intellectual rigor and rejection of systematic thinking. It holds too many contradictory ideas (emphasis on law and order plus liberty; free trade plus mercantilism; pro-American plus anti-empire; pro-freedom plus anti-personal liberty). There are no principles to which it is unyieldingly attached. It is therefore easily manipulated by the state and its interests Recognize yourself, MindZero? Moreover these motives for conservatism had been proposed years ago: "All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) U.S. writer, poet, philosopher "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservative." - John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) British philosopher lewrockwell.com