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[ebonlock]

Mikey wins comment of the year and it's only the middle of January:

*Sigh*

I dunno. Is it just me? I’m tired. Tired of going over the same ground, again and again. Tired of mindless syncophantic creatures slinging the same crap over the same transom day in and day out. Maybe they’ve outlasted me. There’s just no way to make them live in reality, respond to real events and require real knowledge.

How long are we going to have to keep responding to the same mindless drivel? At what point will we no longer have to respond seriously to the same idiocy we were subjected to almost four years ago? Why is it that political blogs, an exciting and democratizing advance in public discoourse, have turned into some kind of low IQ Groundhog Day?

I’m tired of it. The facts are in. I no longer want to banter with cretins and mongoloids over the criminality, cruelty and blatent illegality of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo. A long time ago I learned the futility of getting up every morning and grinding my face against the same brick wall. And while we piss on each other, arguing about how many WMDs can dance on the head of a pin, people are dying, real people, not Aces and Drudges and O’Reillys and mikeys.

Honestly. Please. Is there a way to move this discussion forward? Must it remain stuck in 2003? Can we stipulate to something, ignore a few idiots, try to get most of the people, for a few precious minutes, talking about something important? I’m old, tired, sick, and working on drunk. But I’m just not sure what all this leads to, y’know? Talk about fiddling while Rome burns, Mister Nero. It’s like we’re complicit in a way. By engaging in nonsense rhetoric while they end civilization on our watch, we seem to be letting the Rodeo Clowns of the Apocalypse get everybody’s attention on the shiny pony of 2003. And no, I have no idea what to do about it. But I’m ready to desert, or surrender, or something equally humilliating, because I just don’t seem to be making a contribution here…

mikey

Comments

[chrisber.livejournal.com]

This is pretty much the way the evolution vs. creationism argument has always gone, isn't it? Going over the same ground, again, and again, and again.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

It does seem rather similar to and as productive as having an argument with a five year old as well, yeah. Of course given that the hardcore Bush supporters remaining (i.e. those who would back him if he decided that the Pacific Ocean should be drained) probably are overwhelmingly in the creationist camp, this isn't too surprising.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

The people who believe all the crap they've been sold by the Bush Administration and their mouthpieces will never admit they are wrong. The scales will never fall from their eyes.

The only thing that can be done is to get as many like-minded people together as possible and stand together as a group, work together to bring more people into the fold until we have enough bodies for things like public demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns.

This back-and-forth rhetoric is nothing more than verbal masturbation, only without the orgasm at the end.