Comments on: Of Lefties and Righties http://tannish.net/2005/09/18/of-lefties-and-righties/ Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These Sat, 19 May 2012 15:44:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Tannish http://tannish.net/2005/09/18/of-lefties-and-righties/#comment-101 Tannish Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:56:00 +0000 http://tannish.net/2005/09/18/of-lefties-and-righties/#comment-101 "Civilized discourse is not what they want..." Of course you're right; discourse is not what they want - all the more reason to force thim into it. With all due respect, Friend Penguin - and I *do* respect you, to continue to beat the monkey-men drum is to reduce yourself to "talking points" of your owm making. This is not discourse; this is - to use your terms - "hooting and hollering." As a wolf myself I understand the necessity of broadcasting how removed I am from *that* particular branch of the evolutionary tree, yet I urge you to try to do the near-impossible: force a wingnut to think through discussion and reason. Even blunt tools can be sharpened through repeated scraping against hardened objects. “Civilized discourse is not what they want…”

Of course you’re right; discourse is not what they want - all the more reason to force thim into it. With all due respect, Friend Penguin - and I *do* respect you, to continue to beat the monkey-men drum is to reduce yourself to “talking points” of your owm making. This is not discourse; this is - to use your terms - “hooting and hollering.”
As a wolf myself I understand the necessity of broadcasting how removed I am from *that* particular branch of the evolutionary tree, yet I urge you to try to do the near-impossible: force a wingnut to think through discussion and reason.
Even blunt tools can be sharpened through repeated scraping against hardened objects.

]]> By: BadTux http://tannish.net/2005/09/18/of-lefties-and-righties/#comment-100 BadTux Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:11:00 +0000 http://tannish.net/2005/09/18/of-lefties-and-righties/#comment-100 In reality, human characteristics such as logic, reason, hope, charity, caring are rather recently evolved, and sit uneasily atop the psyche of what was, until maybe 15,000 years ago, just a bunch of jumped-up monkeys with delusions of grandeur. All those old monkey instincts are still there -- the instinct to divide the world into "us" (our tribe of monkeys) and "them" (some other tribe of monkeys, which is to be hated and derided as a threat to our tribe's prosperity). The instinct to hoot and howl and throw feces at any monkey not a member of our tribe. The instinct to follow an alpha male everywhere, regardless of what he does. All those instincts are still there in the human animal, and the human animal still tends to devolve to those old instincts whenever placed in a position of fear. And fear is, of course, what the right wing hate machine is all about -- inducing fear in its victims, in order to devolve them back to their monkey instincts and away from that aweful "thought" and "peace" and "hope" stuff. Peace and prosperity are despised by the right wing hate mongers because they lead to people loving each other and living in peace and harmony. Thus they continually push fear, rage, hate, relish the thought of war, continually do their best to destroy prosperity for the majority because prosperity threatens the very core of their power, the ability to devolve millions of two-legged primates into monkeys willing to follow whatever alpha male the hate-mongers have proppped up today. Civilized discourse is not what they want. Hate, fear, and rage is what they want. For only by devolving human beings into monkeys can they retain power. - Badtux the Non-primate Penguin In reality, human characteristics such as logic, reason, hope, charity, caring are rather recently evolved, and sit uneasily atop the psyche of what was, until maybe 15,000 years ago, just a bunch of jumped-up monkeys with delusions of grandeur. All those old monkey instincts are still there — the instinct to divide the world into “us” (our tribe of monkeys) and “them” (some other tribe of monkeys, which is to be hated and derided as a threat to our tribe’s prosperity). The instinct to hoot and howl and throw feces at any monkey not a member of our tribe. The instinct to follow an alpha male everywhere, regardless of what he does. All those instincts are still there in the human animal, and the human animal still tends to devolve to those old instincts whenever placed in a position of fear.

And fear is, of course, what the right wing hate machine is all about — inducing fear in its victims, in order to devolve them back to their monkey instincts and away from that aweful “thought” and “peace” and “hope” stuff. Peace and prosperity are despised by the right wing hate mongers because they lead to people loving each other and living in peace and harmony. Thus they continually push fear, rage, hate, relish the thought of war, continually do their best to destroy prosperity for the majority because prosperity threatens the very core of their power, the ability to devolve millions of two-legged primates into monkeys willing to follow whatever alpha male the hate-mongers have proppped up today.

Civilized discourse is not what they want. Hate, fear, and rage is what they want. For only by devolving human beings into monkeys can they retain power.

- Badtux the Non-primate Penguin

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