cyrnel

Damn centrists! (jk)

I sometimes fantasize that the most bent, critical, angry posts come from people grinning behind their keyboards, just toying with others. It's a nice fantasy, wherein everyone's happy and a few pranksters post wildly contrasting opinions and attitudes just to see what sticks. No harm done because the angry responses are just more toying. Then someone comes along and tells me Santa's dead. Fuck me.

I've always felt large flames were best countered with a vacuum. Swift, complete, perhaps accompanied by a "pardon our dust" notice. If it isn't up for discussion then discussions only prolong the agony.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195