1. Those who don't experience a lower level of humanity and are content with it. They also have more trouble in the areas of thinking, problem-solving, being useful, and containing enough interest to spend any time on.
That said, this is mainly about politics, which is only a thin and ugly-tasting slice of the pie.
It was said recently that the reason we seem to have larger and larger numbers of independent voters is because people are slowly starting to wake up. They realize they can have gay marriage and a secular life and the occasional abortion and not have to turn every establishment over to the current government's whims. And they also realize that we should be able to stop the government from stealing money in the form of tax dollars (to fund unbelievably asinine efforts) without having to become religious morons and cling to ancient values that have no basis in reason today.
Whatever forces decided that party lines should be drawn where they are must be the degenerate bastard sons of natural selection.
The good news is that with more independents, candidates will start fighting for the votes of more and more individuals, rather than sweet-talking the leaders of large groups of people that can't think for themselves.
This in turn will start to make every vote carry a little more weight, and people will become more involved in the process. This is only natural. If you're one of those people who says "My vote doesn't count," or "All politicians lie and/or are evil (and/or are all the same)," then I don't want you deciding who my leader will be either.
As long as we're on the subject, anyone who deals in absolutes, or generalities (see the irony?) should be immediately disgraced and violently ejected from discussion.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
The #1 Reason You Should Strive For Self-Reliance
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I am afraid, young sir, that I take issue with your Aristotelian (that is to say, teleological) appraisal of our species. You presume that essence precedes existence, that there exists some externally defined mode of life (in your case, intellectual, independent and pragmatic) that is the most correct.
As an Existentialist Epicurean, I posit that there is indeed no purpose for man, noting that what I have discovered--that pleasure is the ultimate good--is applicable only to me. Self-reliance, in this case, does me little good. As a cog in the vast pharmaceutical network of the Pacific Northwest, I am served extraordinarily well. I caution your universalism.
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