Well, today is a different kind age than the middle ages.
There are too many people with too many vested interests and too many people who want a bit of a brighter future than the Kansas-style theocratic education system that some of the reddest states want.
As pessimistic as I can be about where the country is headed, I know there is a plataeu where the vast majority of the people will say "we've had enough of this shit" and take action.
The Occupy movement is a good sign that i might be right, although I doubt that the occupy movement is the fullest expression of what's actually possible if they're pushed hard enough.
It's little things like that that have made me a little more optimistic than I probably should be.
Still, as much as I like to protest on these forums about the evils of America, I'm still going about my business and my menial job and I'm not fighting for any of the things I believe in. I think that's a good sign that many people might still be in these 'reserves' given the popularity of the occupy movement.
These radical people are not in the majority, but they are the most vocal. I certainly hope that New Hampshire doesn't listen to those fuckwits, but it is a blue state and even red-state judges and school officials tend to vote more sensibly than we give them credit for. It's just the most retarded of people that tend to make the news for the stupid shit they believe.
There are too many people with too many vested interests and too many people who want a bit of a brighter future than the Kansas-style theocratic education system that some of the reddest states want.
As pessimistic as I can be about where the country is headed, I know there is a plataeu where the vast majority of the people will say "we've had enough of this shit" and take action.
The Occupy movement is a good sign that i might be right, although I doubt that the occupy movement is the fullest expression of what's actually possible if they're pushed hard enough.
It's little things like that that have made me a little more optimistic than I probably should be.
Still, as much as I like to protest on these forums about the evils of America, I'm still going about my business and my menial job and I'm not fighting for any of the things I believe in. I think that's a good sign that many people might still be in these 'reserves' given the popularity of the occupy movement.
These radical people are not in the majority, but they are the most vocal. I certainly hope that New Hampshire doesn't listen to those fuckwits, but it is a blue state and even red-state judges and school officials tend to vote more sensibly than we give them credit for. It's just the most retarded of people that tend to make the news for the stupid shit they believe.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
