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Yep, you got the joke.
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I choose to not listen to Rush!
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The oaks are disappointed in you.
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I just looked up the lyrics to that one, and I guess Iām more of a maple guy. Seriously, f*ck Rush.
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Limbaugh? Hell ya, dig him up and have a pissing party. Iāll take part! (Well, if Iāve had enough to drink.)
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At the time Neil Peart (lyricist) was a hard-core Ayn Randian libertarian. It shows in a lot of their music. Hell, 2112 is a tribute to her. He realized later his assholery and tried to make up for it, but yeah, there is a whole era where itās great music, but hard to enjoy when you grok the lyrics.
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To be fair to Peart, he apparently put the Ayn Rand worship behind him before too long,
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Him too. But also rich white rock stars trashing unions.
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Been chewing on the following for several weeks now. I am not on social media apart from this bbs, so if someoneās already said it, I will say here and now I came to this one on my own:
Given its current trajectory in the U.S. and the normalization of its opposite, the only justice we in the U.S. are likely to see in future is the kind depicted for us on The Screens (streaming, cable, television, movies, etc.).
Justice (as older folks understood that word) for anyone but the rich is simply going to be unavailable in real life. As we hunger for it more and more, we will cling to copaganda shows and crime shows the way some people re-watch The Waltons to remember back when times were simpler and justice could still be had by the common man.
As we continue to get force-fed a ānation of lawsā narrative on all platforms (including printed media), U.S.ians will continue to be told to believe that justice is still obtainable, is still possible, now and in the future. Thus the masses are trained, chained, and with any luck, immobilized.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.[10]
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As Iām boycotting Cokeā¦
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Profound, and profoundly sad. And ā hope this isnāt reductive, or missing the point ā I too think that nearly all corporate entertainment is deeply conservative.
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Well saidā¦ really.
I think this is also why democracy has failed in the US so abysmally.
These younger people I meet sometimes they donāt have a concept of a form of functional democracy either simply thinking, like western cowboy dramas, it was a pretty fairy tale or cynically believing it was always agitprop and either being ok with that orā¦ whatever else they feel and then nothing because frankly most people are just trying to live a normalish life.
People are siloād in ways that only the worst kinds of people seem to understand too. So the Techno-Goths sack Rome while people argue about what flavor of scapegoats to sacrifice to restore empire.
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Iāve been thinking about the DOE a lot lately, and the series of Republicans who advocated for it to be shut down, and then actually found out what it did (when, for example, they were put in charge of it, i.e. Rick Perry). Itās indicative of their whole knowledge of, and approach to, all of the federal government - they come in with assumptions about it (that itās bad and unnecessary), and wonāt let any sort of actual knowledge about how things work cloud that assumption. They donāt need to know what a department actually does to know it shouldnāt exist!
Which ironically is proof that these federal entities are working really well, because people only notice things when theyāre broken.
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You know I think maybe they (chauvinistic libertarians) find themselves in this position because so much of their foundational paradigm is incorrect they end up rejecting the concept of actual biologically and physically determined emergence in favor of artificially designed emergence to suit an ideological vision built around the concept of the self/ego as the super-man.
When confronted with the man behind the curtain they offer to build him a wall.
People end up in a mindset where they actually canāt believe that most of human civilization is kept running by interdependence and and trust earned through stability and diligence.
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Going with 3 as well.
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