Political movements cannot be built organically. Someone has to catch a wave and ride it. Astroturf will always be with us. The PTB will always be with us. The names may change, the causes may change, but the hierarchy is forever ingrained as "power corrupts." George knows this. He's a sociologist social theorist.
Bloggers bitching in anonymous impotence will always be with us, too, but the effect will likewise be the diffusion of any meaningful dissent into singular bytes of individual nothingness. Cacaphonous white noise is the same as nothing. Everything = nothing.
And no one has to pay anybody to render the whiteysphere irrelevant. It just is. By design. We are the ones paying the price, individually, to prop it up for cheap thrills and second rate infotainment value.
I disagree. None of it swears enough or uses the word "Nazi" enough for my tastes. However, be that as it may, just because it is written down somewhere and assuming we take this "nothing new under the sun" concept of yours seriously, education is mostly about repetition not being correct or pithy.
"Someone has to catch a wave and ride it."
The beach bum view of history? I think if the wave is there and the board is there then the surfer dude will necessarily appear and is therefore the slack variable of the equation.
Everything the average human being needs to understand his pitiable existence and rueful circumstance was learned by a few, penultimately, in the 19th century and subsequently made available to the masses of "educated" cannon fodder in the 20th century.
Marx. Freud. Nietszche. Einstein. Maybe there are a few more. Weber? Spengler?
These guyz definitely added something new under the sun, unfortunately this the use of this knowledge by it's recipients had nothing but negative practical impacts on the 20th Century, AKA "the decline of the west."
Knowledge is not only completely unenlightening in the hands of the unenlightened, it tends to be downright annihilation-causing in the hands of the evil surfer dudez who catch the wave of misinterpretation and malevolent intent AKA "human nature".
The whiteysphere is educational? Ha Ha. Thats a good juan.
As for the beach bum theory, yes here we are in perfect agreement. Someone will always necessarily appear to ride the wave.
And for the "wave" created by the whiteysphere, that surfer dude has already appeared, hung ten and locked into the [infoboob]tube.
Political movements cannot be built organically. Someone has to catch a wave and ride it. Astroturf will always be with us. The PTB will always be with us. The names may change, the causes may change, but the hierarchy is forever ingrained as "power corrupts." George knows this. He's a sociologist.
Bloggers bitching in anonymous impotence will always be with us, too, but the effect will likewise be the diffusion of any meaningful mass dissent into singular bytes of individual nothingness. Cacaphonous white noise is the same as nothing. Everything = nothing.
And no one has to pay anybody to render the whiteysphere irrelevant. It just is. By design. We are the ones paying the price, individually, to prop it up for cheap thrills and second rate infotainment value.
I disagree. None of it swears enough or uses the word "Nazi" enough for my tastes. However, be that as it may, just because it is written down somewhere and assuming we take this "nothing new under the sun" concept of yours seriously, education is mostly about repetition not being correct or pithy.
"Someone has to catch a wave and ride it."
The beach bum view of history? I think if the wave is there and the board is there then the surfer dude will necessarily appear and is therefore the slack variable of the equation.
--davidbyron
Everything the average human being needs to understand his pitiable existence and rueful circumstance was learned by a few, penultimately, in the 19th century and subsequently made available to the masses of "educated" cannon fodder in the 20th century.
Marx. Freud. Nietszche. Einstein. Maybe there are a few more. Weber? Spengler?
These guyz definitely added something new under the sun, unfortunately this the use of this knowledge by it's recipients had nothing but negative practical impacts on the 20th Century, AKA "the decline of the west."
Knowledge is not only completely unenlightening in the hands of the unenlightened, it tends to be downright annihilation-causing in the hands of the evil surfer dudez who catch the wave of misinterpretation and malevolent intent AKA "human nature".
The whiteysphere is educational? Ha Ha. Thats a good juan.
As for the beach bum theory, yes here we are in perfect agreement. Someone will always necessarily appear to ride the wave.
And for the "wave" created by the whiteysphere, that surfer dude has already appeared, hung ten and locked into the [infoboob]tube.
