Wow!
That certainly was a long read - about 20 single-spaced pages in an OpenOffice document - but well worth it. It should be required reading in high school civics classes - do they even still have those? - or whatever classes high schools have that purport to explain the theory and workings of government.
It explained a lot of relatively recent history, but I personally think the biggest lesson in it was "stick to your guns, be your own person, and never, EVER, let anyone external to yourself manufacture YOUR thoughts in THEIR own heads. Be Stubborn. Be Contrary. Be Free."
That goes for both folks on the "Left" AND folks on the "Right", as well as those in the center. It's NEVER a good idea to let other folks do your thinking for you, something I have often said here and elsewhere. If you don't know enough about a given subject to form YOUR OWN opinion in the matter, then you don't know enough about it to even HAVE an opinion in the matter - and certainly not an opinion that was issued to you from On High. If your opinions have to come from elsewhere, from someone else, then they are not really your opinions at all, Left OR Right, are they?
Either get busy educating yourself on the matter, or else be man enough to admit that you really just don't fuckin' care about the subject at all. A false opinion from an external source is worse than none at all.
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That certainly was a long read - about 20 single-spaced pages in an OpenOffice document - but well worth it. It should be required reading in high school civics classes - do they even still have those? - or whatever classes high schools have that purport to explain the theory and workings of government.
It explained a lot of relatively recent history, but I personally think the biggest lesson in it was "stick to your guns, be your own person, and never, EVER, let anyone external to yourself manufacture YOUR thoughts in THEIR own heads. Be Stubborn. Be Contrary. Be Free."
That goes for both folks on the "Left" AND folks on the "Right", as well as those in the center. It's NEVER a good idea to let other folks do your thinking for you, something I have often said here and elsewhere. If you don't know enough about a given subject to form YOUR OWN opinion in the matter, then you don't know enough about it to even HAVE an opinion in the matter - and certainly not an opinion that was issued to you from On High. If your opinions have to come from elsewhere, from someone else, then they are not really your opinions at all, Left OR Right, are they?
Either get busy educating yourself on the matter, or else be man enough to admit that you really just don't fuckin' care about the subject at all. A false opinion from an external source is worse than none at all.
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