tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post2079163871199033965..comments2023-05-22T10:42:54.046-04:00Comments on 6th or 7th: I'll say this for the internetEthanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498712279382078624noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-31559987008606800442010-12-18T09:57:52.544-05:002010-12-18T09:57:52.544-05:00Wait. Humans are people? Since when?
The rub come...Wait. Humans are people? Since when?<br /><br />The rub comes in, as you guys have pointed out, the small small small percentage that actually take the time to process things beyond a soundbite, a 60-second video or a third & subsequent paragraph, to perhaps put a 'simple' face on the grainy footage or childish scribbling that's always pointed out, with vehemence, to be too 'complex' for the rubes.<br /><br />Something's always better than nothing, just like the Wikileaks gig. Is the power bus going to stop rolling? Fuck no, but it isn't a bad thing to shoot a tire out so it has to stop and put on the spare.Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-29688389707578087882010-12-17T17:12:35.692-05:002010-12-17T17:12:35.692-05:00The world and its power arrangements are complex, ...The world and its power arrangements are complex, as are the preferences we form in response. We can't negotiate them with simple slogans alone. <br /><br />We have to be able to evaluate the things we like and don't like on their own terms and decide whether they are incompatible with what we want to achieve, or a potential component of it; and we have to make these choices both as individuals and as communities.<br /><br />I think you illustrate this really well.JRBhttp://ladypoverty.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com