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Chaingang -> RE: The Truth Hurts? (9/29/2006 8:34:33 AM)
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One reason to hash things out is that some days "class is in session." Sometimes you want to see if you can get some racist, xenophobe, right-wing moron to see daylight by trying to help him pull his head out of his ass. Others days, who gives a fuck?
Sometimes it's a nice conversation - you post, someone else posts, you post more, it's funny or absurd, more posting. Talk, talk, talk...
Other times one comes here to sharpen up for other more important tasks or simply to kill time in between other things.
I wish I could say that I was often educated or persuaded to another viewpoint by my intellectual rivals, but most often I learn the most from those having similar opinions to my own. Most people aren't that smart as compared to myself or a few others around here (I know that sounds conceited as hell, BTW), as a consequence others usually don't have that much they can teach me. The rest is philosophical extrapolation - another area in which I imagine I have few rivals. One takes what one knows and tries to apply it to a policy concept so that it advantages the most people. When people disagree with me it's not because I'm wrong, but because my opponents are short-sighted, wildly selfish, greedy assholes. That might be an overly broad generalization, but in the main it is true.
In real life, most people look to me to take a leadership position in relation to them. Fuck, I don't want to lead - but if the alternative is to let some idiot run the show then I will lead. Sometimes, I do the politically expedient thing and let the idiot run things for a while until they reveal themselves to be the idiot that they are - then I replace them and no one argues. As often as possible I try to treat people as equals, whether they want it that way or not.
Sometimes I get impatient.
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