Mark is spot on. There are certainly many among that 51% who possess "a certain modesty concerning their intellects and a certain prudence regarding their actions:" attitudes recently claimed as the essence of conservatism by Philip Gold, but in actuality defining at least a penumbra of the reality-based community, whether conservative or liberal or whatever. I know some of them.
Those people can be reached, but you can't start by invalidating their most deeply-held beliefs. A good starting point is today's Gospel reading (All Saint's Sunday): the Beatitudes.
So Chthulhu takes his seat in the Lincoln Memorial, and we all get to be part of a political experiment to prove the truth of Lord Acton's axiom.
Mencken said it well:
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
Bend over, America.
Charles Johnson comes across as a cowardly gasbag on my planet Earth. Diana Moon of Letter from Gotham doesn't post hateful comments but insightful questions, and gets deleted, sometimes without even an acknowledgement of the deletion, while someone else calls her a c*nt and gets deleted only after frequent requests.
CJ will receive the cut direct, should I ever be so unfortunate as to meet him in person.
It just proves that the Bushistas and neocons, despite their warlike rhetoric, are nothing more than stinking cowards, afraid to face the judgement of the American people. But judgement is coming.
That cartoon is brilliant!
Avram wrote:
"I don't know anybody who actually does nothing but play Playstation, or read one set of books, or watch one TV show over and over, but I know quite a few people who might look like they're doing that, to people for whom those activities are sufficiently strange that they don't notice what else the kids are doing."
That incomprehension is familiar to every writer confronted by someone (sometimes, unfortunately, a significant other) who does not understand or want to believe that just sitting and staring at the computer monitor (or blank piece of paper, cuneiform tablet, whatever) is part (sometime a significant part) of writing.
As far as well-rounded goes, I've noticed a progression of attitude at some places where I've worked, from being called "Mr. Trivia" to being the person people come to for answers on (to them) obscure topics. Sometimes not, too, but I don't care. I've finally decided it's fun living in this particular brain/lumber-room/attic/antique store, and to hell with what anyone else thinks.
Geek pride, anyone?
That was pretty painless: I've added a feed via Blogmatrix. Thanks for the heads up.
Hope to see you there!
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