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The joke here is that progressive, cosmopolitan snobs demand sacrifice of the individual to the collective. We just need to make the "transition" from being individuals to being just a cog in the wheel of the collective good. In my question to Hugh Topian, I was playing along with the sarcasm of this high-minded, condescending liberal-ness which professes to tell us how to sacrifice ourselves at the alter of their choosing.
Your as-a-matter-of-fact answer makes it seem to me that you missed the joke. Did you? It doesn't seem like you, to miss something like that.
Ed
p.s. Conspiracy Thought For the Day:
I feel dumber. I can't put words together very well anymore, it seems. Does anyone else feel just about as dumb as rocks, lately??
Ted, you don't have to answer.
[bah-dump bummm]
No, seriously, I can't even criticize politicians anymore, because I keep screwing up their names. All I know is that one of the key guys is black and that there are a couple of loud-mouthed women who keep talking (but I can't seem to sort them out; it's like jumbled). Then the Rev'rend comes on here to tell me that I shouldn't be so quick to toss away my dignity with such moral glee (yeah, as if that would ever happen to me -- all puffed up with pride and whatnot!), and then I just read another post by an otherwise-literate RoR contributor who seemed to have made tons of grammar errors.
So, what is the conspiracy thought for the day, you may ask?
They say that the first thing that Hitler did in Germany is to dumb down the population. Orwell's 1984 accomplished that with Newspeak. Hitler supposedly pumped bucketloads of flourine into the drinking water. He said it was to prevent tooth decay -- or something like that. In 2009, there are most definitely other ways to make folks dumb and dumber. There might be some kind of electro-magnetic brain-zapper. They say that we all have to someone come and put these new "converter" boxes put into our homes for our TVs (or something like that).
Yeah! I mean, like I've never heard that one before! Gimme' a break, totalitarians. Puhleeeze!
All I'm saying is that I have this distinct memory that we elected some new guy as our president. And I recall that he was running game on most of us about his politics. He's one of those Utopian idealists who sees people as mere things to be controlled in his grand schemes.
My conspiracy thought for the day is that I'm dumber for a sinister reason (they locked on to my brain waves or what-have-you). Another possibility is that I haven't been getting much sleep lately. But that, in itself, could be being caused by satellite transmissions or other sinister, futuristic means of controlling the richest nation on this planet.
Another idea is that it's winter in Minnesota. It's actually a fact that it's winter in Minnesota. But what I mean to say is that I get insomniated (slap-happy) during the winter months. Well, I don't want to take up too much of your (the reader) time so, I'll guess this is going to have to be all that I will say about this (for now, anyway).
Just let me know if you think you're dumber, too. Oh wait ... if you've gotten too dumb already then ... then you might not even be aware of getting dumber! Oh crap, it's just like they say: conspiracy theories cannot be "proven" wrong.
:-)
Ed
(Edited by Ed Thompson on 2/05, 5:06pm)
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