Hey Adam! You know Horowitz is a real piece- (of course I'm pointing out the obvious to you and your fellow group members)- I was watching an interview where he defended what Ann Coulter said about the Jersey Girls...he apparently didn't think they should question Bush either, that pretty much tells me what kind of person he is.
on other news, isn't it just great that the current possible nominee for Attorney General, Mukasey can't declare waterboarding illegal because he doesn't know if it's torture?!! I'm really fed up(this is an understatement), where are the people of integrity? These people are supposed to be protecting our rights?
I thought it would be fitting to share something I was reading, an excerpt from Huxley's Brave New World Revisited:
"At this point we find ourselves confronted by a disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge? Does a majority of the population think it worth while to take a good deal of trouble, in order to halt and, if possible, reverse the current drift toward totalitarian control of everything? In the United States-...recent public opinion polls have revealed that an actual majority of young people in their teens, the voters of tomorrow, have no faith in democratic institutions, see no objection to the censorship of unpopular ideas, do not believe that government of the people by the people is possible and would be perfectly content, if they can continue to live in the style to which the boom has accustomed them, to be ruled, from above, by an oligarchy of assorted experts. That so many of the well-fed young television-watchers...should be so completely indifferent to the idea of self-government,...uninterested in freedom of thought and the right to dissent, is distressing, but not too surprising. ....The young people who now think so poorly of democracy may grow up to become fighters for freedom. The cry of "Give me television and hamburgers, but don't bother me with the responsibilities of liberty," may give place, under altered circumstances, to the cry of "Give me liberty or give me death." If such a revolution takes place, it will be due in part to the operation of forces over which even the most powerful rulers have very little control, in part to the incompetence of those rulers, their inablilty to make effective use of the mind-manipulating instruments with which science and technology have supplied, and will go on supplying, the would-be tyrant."
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Hey Adam!
You know Horowitz is a real piece- (of course I'm pointing out the obvious to you and your fellow group members)- I was watching an interview where he defended what Ann Coulter said about the Jersey Girls...he apparently didn't think they should question Bush either, that pretty much tells me what kind of person he is.
on other news, isn't it just great that the current possible nominee for Attorney General, Mukasey can't declare waterboarding illegal because he doesn't know if it's torture?!! I'm really fed up(this is an understatement), where are the people of integrity? These people are supposed to be protecting our rights?
I thought it would be fitting to share something I was reading, an excerpt from Huxley's Brave New World Revisited:
"At this point we find ourselves confronted by a disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge? Does a majority of the population think it worth while to take a good deal of trouble, in order to halt and, if possible, reverse the current drift toward totalitarian control of everything? In the United States-...recent public opinion polls have revealed that an actual majority of young people in their teens, the voters of tomorrow, have no faith in democratic institutions, see no objection to the censorship of unpopular ideas, do not believe that government of the people by the people is possible and would be perfectly content, if they can continue to live in the style to which the boom has accustomed them, to be ruled, from above, by an oligarchy of assorted experts. That so many of the well-fed young television-watchers...should be so completely indifferent to the idea of self-government,...uninterested in freedom of thought and the right to dissent, is distressing, but not too surprising. ....The young people who now think so poorly of democracy may grow up to become fighters for freedom. The cry of "Give me television and hamburgers, but don't bother me with the responsibilities of liberty," may give place, under altered circumstances, to the cry of "Give me liberty or give me death." If such a revolution takes place, it will be due in part to the operation of forces over which even the most powerful rulers have very little control, in part to the incompetence of those rulers, their inablilty to make effective use of the mind-manipulating instruments with which science and technology have supplied, and will go on supplying, the would-be tyrant."
-Aldous Huxley 1958
...very relevant commentary
Susan
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