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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (17201)5/23/2005 8:12:17 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20773
 
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (17201)5/23/2005 10:42:14 PM
From: BlackDog777  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20773
 
I'm convinced that plenty more Americans would care about how they are governed if they weren't treated like mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed BS) and told by authority figures that their only role in life is to consume.

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be. --Herbert Marcuse



To: Raymond Duray who wrote (17201)5/24/2005 10:08:20 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20773
 
I'm convinced that plenty more Americans would care about how they are governed if they weren't treated like mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed BS) and told by authority figures that their only role in life is to consume.

They prefer to be treated as mushrooms, unless it's about sex.

jttmab

P.S. I have been accused of being cynical on numerous occasions over decades. It's open to debate on whether it's cynicism or realism.


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