Rush Limbaugh interview, isn't he creepy?

[urbanfarmer]

I was exposed to Rush Limbaugh's website once. I was at the home of some christian friends and they wanted me to see something "funny". Then they brought up his site and started showing me some animations. At some point my female friend looked at my face and saw the tears. She told the guys to find something else to do.

I cried! I had no idea there was so much hatred there. I had always admired these folks, but when I saw them laughing, it was just one more disappointment in humanity.

[Hope@ZeroKelvin]

You mean the relationship between Bureaucracy + Gov + Interest groups?  I read about that in my college days, seems to have been a "fixture" of how things get done since I was a wee lass.  Had to look it up again in Wiki.

Never really questioned it, seemed like some immutable force, like gravity.  Probably just the way "they" want it, eh??

[mtlouie]

The thing is, the passage of time makes us forget.  Or not even know.  What happened in 1780?  or 1840?  Or 1910?  The same thing that is happening today.  We just don't remember.  And we don't study history.  We can't.  That is reserved for people who have the time.  What we do is soak up what is given us.  Then we regurgitate it.

[Hope@ZeroKelvin]

The thing is, the passage of time makes us forget.  Or not even know.  What happened in 1780?  or 1840?  Or 1910?  The same thing that is happening today.  We just don't remember.  And we don't study history.  We can't.  That is reserved for people who have the time.  What we do is soak up what is given us.  Then we regurgitate it.

It does seem to be a bit of an osmotic process, a la Ishmael.  I like the "regurgitate" metaphor - it implies that the knowledge isn't even "digested" in any way, just goes in then right back out.

Have you ever thought that humanity's inability to really remember and take to heart the lessons of history is some kind of evolutionary dead end that will help spell the end of us?  And perhaps it is the Great Revealing that will enhance or retrieve some racial memory so that as we look back we will then be able to move forward?

Anyhoo, enough philosophy, and on your birthday! 



 

[urbanfarmer]

Hmmm. So is there are those that soak up, then regurtitate, then perhaps there are those who soak up, then shit. Puke isn't good for anything and just gets all over your shoes. Shit however makes great fertilizer in which new ideas will grow. 

[mtlouie]

The thing is, the passage of time makes us forget.  Or not even know.  What happened in 1780?  or 1840?  Or 1910?  The same thing that is happening today.  We just don't remember.  And we don't study history.  We can't.  That is reserved for people who have the time.  What we do is soak up what is given us.  Then we regurgitate it.

It does seem to be a bit of an osmotic process, a la Ishmael.  I like the "regurgitate" metaphor - it implies that the knowledge isn't even "digested" in any way, just goes in then right back out.

Have you ever thought that humanity's inability to really remember and take to heart the lessons of history is some kind of evolutionary dead end that will help spell the end of us?  And perhaps it is the Great Revealing that will enhance or retrieve some racial memory so that as we look back we will then be able to move forward?

Anyhoo, enough philosophy, and on your birthday! 



 

Nice one, Hopie!!