[lit-ideas] Re: Hitler/Stalin - Stewart/Colbert Tag Team

  • From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:34:32 -0400

Mike: If anything ironic nihilism would favor anarchism, never the ruling elite.



Ironic nihilism favors passivity. The last time people weren't passive, we had the clean water act and a bundle of other populist legislation ... which took a whole bunch of lobbyist to undermine.


Mike: None of us believes what we believe through reasoned discourse, but only through what our parents taught us.

This List alone has helped me change my opinion on a range of issues. Guess that makes you a father figure or something...

In a world where "orphans" refers to text,
Bonzo

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