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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
How about instead of interpreting their words, we just...I dunno...read the things? Take them at their words instead of trying to interpret all sorts of convenient, allegedly hidden meanings into them?
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Reading is interpreting. You can't read something with committing an act of interpretation.
Even if their writings were pure mathematics, with only one possible interpretation, that wouldn't necessarily make them relevant.
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And BTW, ivory-tower prats and overweight bubbas both come in both left- and right-wing flavours. Only one of these two types, however, gets to influence public policy; the other is simply influenced -by- it.
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I'm pretty sure that the tea party disagrees with your notions of bubba-disenfranchisement. What the recent elections and resulting policy actions have shown is that the bubbas are just as bad, if not worse, than the ivory-tower folk at policy.