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Originally Posted by roachboy
mm: i think i reacted to what i saw as a kind of defaulting into the middle in the previous post of yours.
thinking of the same thing now, i would probably opt for a more cheery approach to the same basic point: this can be a space to try out arguments, to take chances with them, see if they work, see why they dont, if they dont.
that is why the repetition in roachboy's posts bugs me--and why repetition in the context, in the posts that are available to bounce off of, bothers me: they give plant food to the boredom weed--which grows at a healthy rate without it.
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I was almost certain that this was your perception which is why I wanted to counter it.
It certainly is not my aim to proffer my views as static, unchangable precepts written in stone. I'm always open to the opportunity to have my ideas picked apart, adapted to acquired knowledge and put back together again. I do this all the time with myself 'cause it's not always easy to find someone to play with, lol. At the forum I spent two years at getting to the place I am now if you didn't have a definite left or right point of departure for your views, then you weren't as liable to engage people in dialogue because the point was not to discuss. It was an excercise in mental masturbation, to put it quite crassly, yet succinctly.
Personally, I would like nothing better than to transcend the limiting parameters of left and right ideology altogether and discuss things on a more practical, common sense level. Ideology is not conducive to rational thought. Eventually, even the most intelligent and worldly of minds will be warped by it. This is another fact that history has taught us.
But don't mind me, half the time when I am talking this way, even I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. It just tastes like something interesting way back there....sometimes I think I'm onto something.