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In reply to the discussion: "In a private club 54 floors above the convention hall they monitored the party they infiltrated." [View all]DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)79. The whole world is one big conspiracy theory.
- And unfortunately, it's true.
K&R
A poll taken by the wallstreet journal and the ny times and the christian science monitor, together they showed that 75 percent of the public doesn't believe what they read in the newspapers anymore, the percentage who don't believe what they see on tv news is even higher, it's like 85 percent. We all know the bastards are lying to us and they get away with it because people are used to yes or no, every 4 years to give us the sense that democracy still exists they give us 2 goddamn motherfucking liars, I like shakespearian english, down to earth english that describes what I'm talking about. I don't like prissy little euphemisms, so they give us 2 goddamn motherfucking lying bastards sons of bitches and they say choose between them you are, you can have a choice, which lying bastard do you prefer to the other lying bastard?
Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses our reality-tunnels will become. Resistance to new information, however, has a strong neurological foundation in all animals, as indicated by studies of imprinting and conditioning. Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show a truly staggering ability to "ignore" certain kinds of information that which does not "fit" their imprinted/conditioned reality-tunnel. We generally call this "conservatism" or "stupidity", but it appears in all parts of the political spectrum, and in learned societies as well as in the Ku Klux Klan.
~Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology
Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses our reality-tunnels will become. Resistance to new information, however, has a strong neurological foundation in all animals, as indicated by studies of imprinting and conditioning. Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show a truly staggering ability to "ignore" certain kinds of information that which does not "fit" their imprinted/conditioned reality-tunnel. We generally call this "conservatism" or "stupidity", but it appears in all parts of the political spectrum, and in learned societies as well as in the Ku Klux Klan.
~Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology
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"In a private club 54 floors above the convention hall they monitored the party they infiltrated." [View all]
madfloridian
Nov 2014
OP
Progressive Democrats: It starts NOW. Raise the standards, demand change, reject the past.
NYC_SKP
Nov 2014
#2
They need repeating. Too many have me on ignore for me to get "dittos dittos"
madfloridian
Nov 2014
#5
Comparing me to Rush is way over the line, even if done in a cutesy manner.
madfloridian
Nov 2014
#19
Any editorials about the 15 million people newly in poverty under this administration?
jtuck004
Nov 2014
#43
and we are looking at more jobs going outside the US and the jobs here going to H-1b visaholders. nt
antigop
Nov 2014
#8
+1000. "third wayers have succeeded spectacularly" Multinationals are partying hard. nt
adirondacker
Nov 2014
#40
The DLC, Third Way, New Democrats, etc, are to the Democratic Party what Decaf is to Coffee
Tierra_y_Libertad
Nov 2014
#28
I found the post at Politico. Typical Will Marshall. I prefer the word liberal myself.
madfloridian
Nov 2014
#38
Lakoff had a lot of good stuff to say.. He was one of the victims of the Rahm type Democrats.
madfloridian
Nov 2014
#46
Yep .. we're screwed. Obama is going to go for Keystone, CCPI, More military escalation. On and on.
YOHABLO
Nov 2014
#35
Bipartisanship is just another code word for "we wanna slop up those lobbyist goodies, too." nt
valerief
Nov 2014
#37
Brings to mind what FDR said when asked if he would be a good President or a bad President:
santamargarita
Nov 2014
#44
I heard he was already working on the TPP. And ed reform is well on its way.
madfloridian
Nov 2014
#52
My my my...not a ONE of the DUers asking questions about the Third Way is in this thread
Rex
Nov 2014
#50
A blog by an IL educator is an example of disillusioned teachers not voting.
madfloridian
Nov 2014
#75
The influence on Clinton and the formation of the New Democrats Network (NDN)
madfloridian
Nov 2014
#76