Ideas worth examining: Theoretical and Actual Violence | Truth and Tolerance
Not everyone gets why I actually like D.P. Monahan despite our differing views, but this may help explain it:
“Rhetoric about the deep failings of America appeals to our Puritan appreciation for self-loathing while it lets us conveniently scapegoat our ideological enemies, and if you are a politician that is the important thing. Reducing actual crime rates with proactive policing (not to mention filling out the damn paperwork) well, that takes real work.”
Source: Theoretical and Actual Violence | Truth and Tolerance
My Mazamet 
Sir, I’m wondering if you might be interested in joining a little project I’m starting up. http://wp.me/p4V4lR-ML
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A meerkat with a plan! I like it. It’s the story of my life. What do I have to do?
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It’s basically a group of people from different backgrounds that respect the sanctity of life. The idea is to foster understanding, civil discussion, and proof that we as a species that we are greater than the sum of our parts. All I ask of those who join is to uphold these ideas, in whatever manner they see fit (be it silly, serious, witty or clever).
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I get it now. You like him because he can be wrong no matter what.
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LOL! No. For his devil’s advocacy. He’s excellent at breaking down status-quo arguments. Questioning.
Each alternate perspective (if honest) creates a better picture.
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I actually gave you the wrong link earlier http://wp.me/p4V4lR-MO
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Read it. Love the idea. But do I get to be King of the Meerkats in that scenario? I’m not settling for less than a Principality.
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I get a kick out of me too.
The self-loathing style of American rhetoric is of course dishonest: commentators say things like “We are a deeply racist country” but what they really mean is “You people (whom I’ve never really met) are a bunch of racists”.
They say that way of speaking started with the Kennedy assassination: “We (i.e. YOU) are a deeply flawed nation unworthy of such a President”. There was also a corresponding flight from reality, treating Kennedy as a martyr for civil rights when in reality he was shot by what we would now call a “self-radicalized homegrown terrorist” of the communist persuasion. They ignored the actual perpetrator of violence and instead focused on a vague theoretical violence.
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