tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post8352697759421080231..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: "A Rose for Bobo" -- Part 2 of 4.driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-2660747699253116192013-10-15T09:16:45.230-05:002013-10-15T09:16:45.230-05:00Noticed on this re-reading:
You have destroyed al...Noticed on this re-reading:<br /><br /><i>You have destroyed all that which you have held to be evil and achieved all that which you have held to be good. Why then do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and image of your virtues. <br /><br />It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection.</i><br /><br />I think I started wanting to tell them that, in those words, around the same time. Clearly, there was something in the air, a kind of chain reaction to all the bullshit everywhere.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-10911839344796636792007-11-14T09:15:00.000-06:002007-11-14T09:15:00.000-06:00"Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be wi..."Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex. Have you ever gone a week without a rationalization?"<BR/><BR/>That quote from the Big Chill anticipated everything that was to follow.<BR/><BR/>Of course, conservatism's ability to (and need to) rationalize the untenable has outstripped Moore's Law to the point where being a Republican today requires liquid cooling of their over-clocked multi-core rationalization processors.<BR/><BR/>The challenge for us is merely this: to repudiate the conservative movement, reform the press, and give the Democratic Party a spine.<BR/><BR/>And let me pile on one more eulogy for Gilliard:<BR/><BR/>"He has gone where fierce indignation can lacerate his heart no more - depart wayfarer, and imitate if you are able one who to the utmost strenously championed liberty."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-91653758796709755322007-11-14T06:59:00.000-06:002007-11-14T06:59:00.000-06:00"Instead it is a rational-izing ideology: one that..."<I>Instead it is a rational-izing ideology: one that depends entirely on the moral and intellectual cowardice of men like David Brooks</I>"<BR/><BR/>Buh-Bingo! but don't underestimate the power of delusional rationalizing - even Heaven's Gate followers were willing to castrate themselves sans anesthesia to prove their faith, and I considered them a much more affable and optimisitc bunch than any modern conservo-bot collective. <BR/>eesh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-15125474648915889822007-11-13T22:56:00.000-06:002007-11-13T22:56:00.000-06:00"That it is the conglomerate of bigots, Dominionis..."That it is the conglomerate of bigots, Dominionists and 'Fuck everybody but me'-libertarians all pulling in harness towards the abyss that makes Bobo’s machine move."<BR/><BR/>Cha-Ching!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com