State of Affairs
October 09, 2004
My mom just asked about Hijacking Catastrophe: (OKN)
(CJ: do you have any info/opinion on this film? Also have you seen the big double page ad from George Soros that is in today's newspapers?) (OKO)
I've heard of it, I think it went through Bloomington while I was still there. It's more of the "if you're already convinced, this will just confirm and if you aren't already convinced this will just make you think it is a bunch of lies" kind of stuff. I'm sick of it. I just started watching a rerun of tonight's debate and before they even started talking I got disgusted with the smarminess of it all and got behind the tv with my computer and headphones so I could neither see nor hear. (OKP)
I've not seen the George Soros thing. What's happening with that? (OKQ)
Clearly I need to be reminded that people can change (quickly) through delivery of information from the outside. I'm not convinced they can. Predisposition, osmosis and diffusion make things go. Thus things like structured argumentation and the like are just facades masking a different process. (OKR)
But happy news, in celebration of entering a new bracket in the life-insurance actuarial tables, I'm taking a spaceship to Mars tomorrow to stay in a dumpster. I'm told I should pack light as leaving things in the dumpster may get them carried off by homeless (Martians? Rovers? Lost Kim Stanley Robinson characters?). I'll take a camera and rain coat. I hear Mars is nice but a bit damp this time of year. (OKS)
Comments
I'm in the same boat. I turned on the debate and had to turn it to something else after about two minutes. I couldn't stand to hear either of them. (OKV)
But I wonder where I fall into this...I think it's all a bunch of lies. Even the true stuff. It's all lies propagated by the man to steal Doc Surly's Love Juice(tm). (OKW)
I'm in the same boat. I turned on the debate and had to turn it to something else after about two minutes. I couldn't stand to hear either of them. (OKX)
But I wonder where I fall into this...I think it's all a bunch of lies. Even the true stuff. It's all lies propagated by the man to steal Doc Surly's Love Juice(tm). (OKY)
I'm in the same boat. I turned on the debate and had to turn it to something else after about two minutes. I couldn't stand to hear either of them. (OKZ)
But I wonder where I fall into this...I think it's all a bunch of lies. Even the true stuff. It's all lies propagated by the man to steal Doc Surly's Love Juice(tm). (OL0)
My apologies for the multiple comments. The server reported a posting error, so I resubmitted. I guess it really didn't have that much of an error. (OL1)