A friend recently introduced me to this fella Stephen Colbert. (if you're not sure whats going on there, see this vid) which has kind of switched me back on to observing the whole liberal vs conservative war in america.
Then reading this article on Palin, i see things are really quite ridiculous. I quote: 'they believe [she] might still be able to rescue the nation from "Liberal intellectuals"'. That's right people, "Intellectual" is now a derogatory term. How desperate do you have to be to start using people's intelligence as some kind of insult? And if you believe intellectualism is some kind of crime, surely there's blasphemy in having rational opinions yourself?
But this is the point where the curious part of me says: 'wait, what if intellectualism IS bad? Perhaps there is some virtue in not solving every problem and some benefit to humanity to resist change? Perhaps allowing stability and the natural course of unchecked human behaviour to play out IS the ultimate solution? Maybe survival of the fittest is what we need, living in small, stable communities and all that?'
But then, i saw things, which reminded me of one vital issue: Humans are a social species, meaning if someone fucks up, they're usually fucking it up for someone else.. and if they're living in a conservative community, no ones going to let a lesson resulting in deaths of innocent people change anything. It is not 'survival of the fittest', it's 'complacency of the people who are ok with dumbasses who fuck it up for everyone else and won't to do anything about it.'
Allow me to demonstrate, with a documentary about trains. Warning: a few disturbing scenes, and it's rather long. I don't expect you to really watch it, but it's essentially this: Small town america cannot be trusted with trains, especially at level crossings in the middle of towns.
Level crossings in the middle of towns = really not so great. Some incidents are the victim's fault, but plenty others are out of their control. Solution? Build a bridge. Cheaper, subtler solution? Make barriers that cover BOTH sides of the road. Their response, as seen in part 2/5? We don't want to change the town.
About here, i realise this isn't about rationality, this isn't about survival of the fittest. This is about stopping those damn liberal intellectuals and their clever little solutions. Becuase if we start listening to the rational, intelligent voice on everything, sooner or later we'll have to start rationalising the consequences of everything we do, and then we might have to realise our moral obligation to the rest of the world because surprisingly everyone else's rights are actually equal to ours.. and you don't want that at all. Dang those intellectuals! what do THEY know about the world, huh!? They obviously all pray to satan before cooking up this rational problem-solving witchcraftery.
Then, as if reading my very thoughts, i see this comment:
Landaux (1 month ago)
Only the liberal activists put shows on like these that want to give trains a bad rep. They show no love for trains in their 'green' world.
On top of everything else, i'm instantly offended. Trains are awesome machines, they're 'greener' than cars, and theyre much safer than road travel, too. Also, like cars and planes and such, they were designed by intelligent, intellectual people. Absolutely nothing wrong with trains, i support them. It's just a few dumbshits in america won't use them properly, because they apparently have no intellectual capacity and they're damn proud of it.
So, hopefully you now see the fallacy of such silly, woolly headed thinking. Sometimes, i like to imagine the illuminati really is real, they do control the world, and they are simply molding the conservative right wing into this insane fundamentalist joke so as to completely strip them of any credibility and remove them from the way of human progress down the enlightened left path. But i sure do have some silly fantasies, and i'm probably just being all intellectual and rational which is like, totally way stupid.
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