Monday, May 4, 2009
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I enforce the requirements for logical, rational,and critical thinking and out those who violate them and those who simply display downright stupidity. I also publish instances of good science and rational thinking by providing news reports with commentary, brief essays by me on timely topics, and comments on other things that generally piss me off.
Okay, maybe George Carlin was not a real philsopher, but he probably counts as much as Jesus, although I don't think George ever turned water into wine (or was it wine into water?), although he did his share of wine drinking, but that's another story.
Anyway, I thought I'd reprint an excerpt from the preface of his book, Brain Droppings, because it pretty much speaks for me too. So, here it is.
Anyway, I thought I'd reprint an excerpt from the preface of his book, Brain Droppings, because it pretty much speaks for me too. So, here it is.
I frankly don't give a fuck how it all turns out in this country -- or anywhere else, for that matter. I think the human game was up a long time ago (when the high priests and traders took over), and now we're just playing out the string. And that is, of course, precisely what I find so amusing: the slow circling of the drain by a once promising species, and the sappy, ever-more-desperate belief in this country that there is actually some sort of "American Dream," which has merely been misplaced.
The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it. I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don't belong; it doesn't include me, and it never has. No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.