Billectric
by shamatha
Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2004-03-17 12:08:00
Parent message is 621802
damn you and your nuanced point of view.
Have you not learned how things operate around here:
a) Choose a position.
b) Allow for no other points of view but your own.
c) Ignore what dissenting voices say, and keep repeating the same theme over and over again.
d. Resort to ad hominem attacks. A useful one is to compare your opponent to Hitler.
e) Opponent is a key word; this is all about winning and losing, imposing your will on other people. There is no room for compromise. Whoever said that moderation was the best course was a lily-livered moron. And probably a Nazi. Or communist. Maybe a facist. That or a Democrat. Possibly Republican.
Seriously, I don’t mean this in any kind of condescending way, but you have a way of stating thing in an ordinary, open-minded, man-on-the-street kind of way that makes complete sense.
I think you could take a little from column A and a little from column B and come up with an satisfactory answer.
I started to write a big response here, but then I stopped, because I just don’t have it in me today.
I just want to say I’m glad there are reasonable people out there like you to bring the people like me who sometimes fly a bit off the handle back to earth.