Things Heard: e85v3
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at
9:53 am
- Contra syncretism.
- Just the sort of thing to implement during a major recession. Putting it succinctly as felony stupidity.
- What passes for argument from the left. Left leaning elitist propaganda here too.
- Pie … now!!!
- Of church and state in Morocco.
- A strange argument indeed, in which political fitness is measured by pork, which I would think is a bad thing, not a good one.
- Waste, done Democrat flavor.
- Just a few kids and not a lot of money can produce remarkable results.
- Yet another day, yet another boldfaced lie from the Administration.
- A genuine adult film.
- Future polymath projects.
- Watching the DOJ.
- Will there be any notice of this on the left?
- Missile defense, is this more of Obama’s foreign policy strategy of coddling your enemies and rejecting your friends?
- Taxonomy of NGO.
- Now, I thought in my essays that sometimes I connect disparate ideas … but Nazi movies and the thoughts of dead fish … that’s noetic movement indeed.
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Thanks for the link, but the map I posted does not “pass for argument on the left” or with me. It’s humor. Satire. That’s noticeably different than argument. Neither can substitute for the other. Both have their place.
Michael,
I know it was humor. It was also smug and elitist, which was my point.
How so? (ie, how is it smug or elitist?)
It strikes me as ironic and bitterly (sadly) humorous. I’m not sure where in the irony and humor there is smugness or elitism.
Dan,
Let me ask you this. Do you see this as map which strikes the partisan divide differently, i.e., that it reflects/represents one party’s population more than the other?
Look, I don’t know how many elections we’ve been through in which the Democrats have painted themselves as the “intelligent” party. The whole “gosh look how dumb they are over there theme is one that for better or worse I see coming from your party. I just see this is more of the same.
Huh. I didn’t see this as talking about one group being “dumb” and the other intelligent. I saw it as a commentary on jingoism and shallow notions of patriotism, about blind black/white thinking (“we’re right, they’re wrong.” “US – right or wrong…”) that sort of thing.
And I suppose I agree that with this sort of shallow thinking, there is a disturbing lack of curiosity which might lead one to think of Africa as the place where zoo animals come from and S. America as the place where coffee comes from (maybe?).
But I don’t see that as intellectual elitism. I see it as a critique on poor, shallow, un-curious thinking, not stupidity.
And I had never realized that the Dems had painted themselves as the intelligent party. Comes as news to me…
I DO think that the GOP has tended to paint itself not as the dumb party, but that they have celebrated a sort of shallow/narrow-thinking and, again, a lack of curiosity and as being rather opposed to science (as evidence, I would point to the hostility towards global climate change studies, towards scientific notions such as evolution, towards legitimate science-based concerns about the environment and energy policies). And shame on them for doing so.