Which is one of the reasons why Obama has 70% approval rating across the board...and the koolaid drinkers are all wetting themselves over...well...whatever it is their currently b*tching about. My thoughts are that if we go with the premise the Limbaugh is the chief lemming, that after awhile, he'll go Moses and take his flock over the cliff with him. Hmm...you know, I hate it when I'm ambiguous like that...I think I need to qualify that more...so...
By Moses, I mean Jim Jones, and by take I mean convince through the usual method of just opening his mouth and saying "go!"; and by cliff I mean to some hellish promiseland in the middle of a miserable jungle in the middle of Central America. Umm, yep...that should clarify what I was trying to say.
one of the things that drove my essentially conservative nature from the halls of the right was their inclusion of "aggressively ignorant" folks. just like you have to expend energy to deny proven science like evolution (insisting on calling something obviously true a "theory" and claiming that substituting your superstitious drivel constitutes a "controversy" takes a conscious expenditure of energy to stay ignorant). to stay their course and spout their talking points in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary requires them to studiously avoid recognising many facts.
they are not only ignorant, they work at remaining that way.
both on the battlefield and the poker table these types are easy to overcome. you show them something familiar, then once they settle into their groove change the game.
i think that the technique was best explained by my akido sensei, mark takahashi (great grandson of one of the developers of the discipline), when he summarized the essence of akido.
become a part of the attack against you. then, become the part of the attack that goes catastrophically wrong.
sensei takahashi was a magnificent warrior in the truest sense of the word. in the code of bushido, all warriors must also be poets and philosophers. to help me cope with my ptsd, he set me to composing haiku.
he was one of the most dangerous men i've ever known, also, one of the kindest. we met in a dojo in san diego. i was working out with my sword. he invited me to charge, and threw me by using the blade of the sword to put me off balance. once i had recovered my breath i bowed deep and said "thank you for the lesson. i would like you to teach me more."
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Which is one of the reasons why Obama has 70% approval rating across the board...and the koolaid drinkers are all wetting themselves over...well...whatever it is their currently b*tching about.
My thoughts are that if we go with the premise the Limbaugh is the chief lemming, that after awhile, he'll go Moses and take his flock over the cliff with him.
Hmm...you know, I hate it when I'm ambiguous like that...I think I need to qualify that more...so...
By Moses, I mean Jim Jones, and by take I mean convince through the usual method of just opening his mouth and saying "go!"; and by cliff I mean to some hellish promiseland in the middle of a miserable jungle in the middle of Central America.
Umm, yep...that should clarify what I was trying to say.
ugh, that was me...signatures, never work as intended.
they remind me of the iconic brando character in "the wild angels."
when johnny was asked what he was rebelling against, brando furrowed his brow and said "whaddya got?"
one of the things that drove my essentially conservative nature from the halls of the right was their inclusion of "aggressively ignorant" folks. just like you have to expend energy to deny proven science like evolution (insisting on calling something obviously true a "theory" and claiming that substituting your superstitious drivel constitutes a "controversy" takes a conscious expenditure of energy to stay ignorant). to stay their course and spout their talking points in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary requires them to studiously avoid recognising many facts.
they are not only ignorant, they work at remaining that way.
both on the battlefield and the poker table these types are easy to overcome. you show them something familiar, then once they settle into their groove change the game.
i think that the technique was best explained by my akido sensei, mark takahashi (great grandson of one of the developers of the discipline), when he summarized the essence of akido.
become a part of the attack against you. then, become the part of the attack that goes catastrophically wrong.
sensei takahashi was a magnificent warrior in the truest sense of the word. in the code of bushido, all warriors must also be poets and philosophers. to help me cope with my ptsd, he set me to composing haiku.
he was one of the most dangerous men i've ever known, also, one of the kindest. we met in a dojo in san diego. i was working out with my sword. he invited me to charge, and threw me by using the blade of the sword to put me off balance. once i had recovered my breath i bowed deep and said "thank you for the lesson. i would like you to teach me more."
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