Another Nail
Why you should be optimistic
I recall about 10 years ago, just as the general public was catching onto the world wide web (I was on when it was still possible to view every website that existed), that there was a lot of hand wringing over porn, of course, but also over cultish propaganda, such as Neo-Nazism.
I recall remarking at the time that it’s the best sort of thing that can happen. The way to render things like Neo-Nazism and other stupidities obsolete and irrelevant is to shine a light on them. In the moist darkness of cloistered "authority," they can grow like mold and attract all sorts of idiot followers. Illuminate them, and they become clearly ridiculous to everyone that matters. They’re no longer interesting to the curious clueless, because they’re no longer mysterious.
John Sabotta posts a great example of this phenomena.
I will just humbly suggest to those with a pessimistic outlook, that perhaps the pessimism is brought on, in part, by all the idiocy we now have easy access to that we never had before, and that the real reason for optimism is that ultimately, Bullshit cannot stand.
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Couldn't agree with your comments more. Nothing kills a dangerous idea faster than the cold light of day. I try and administer the coupe de grace with a bit of humour. Thanks for provoking thought. Best regards.
Social security has been standing in ""the cold light of day" for more than twice the life-span that I have left, gentlemen.
…and a host of other evil absurdities, Billy. I'm not going to deny it. You're right, 100%, about the moral injustice of all of it. I have a gerneal reason to be optimistic, which is that via the internet, more and more people have the opportunity to see things in the cold light of day than ever before (a recent phenomena). I also have a specific one: even though the whole "reform" debate is going to be one hellish nightmare, perhaps even eclipsing the recent "Cannibal-Pot Hysteria" of the recent election, it just may take us one _small_ step in the right direction.
"Social security has been standing in 'the cold light of day' for more than twice the life-span that I have left, gentlemen."
Naw, for the vast majority of people it has been standing in exactly the light that the mainstream media engineered. Today, the MSM is cracking up before our eyes. Each minute the scales fall for another person.