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Western media is, by definition (media being a plural) multiple and diverse. Talk radio may want everyone to think in exactly the same way, but that would be more to your liking than, say, NPR, I'm guessing. And Fox News and some other cable TV stations are anti-Liberal to extremes. Even Newspapers are hardly all liberal in outlook, and carry a range of opinions on their editorial pages. If you haven't noticed, maybe you should get out more. The liberal media keep encouraging people to think more for themselves. Hardly compatible with communism in the sense in which you use it.
posted by
mousehop
on November 3, 2008 at 4:33 PM
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Re: Mordent
I guess I'm a mean guy.
posted by
mordent
on November 1, 2008 at 11:07 AM
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Yes it fails in action but the Western media keeps trying to sell it as a concept and it does rule many a mind and social discussion.
I like diversity but I want my division as well. If that makes me an elitist, biggoted such and such that's fine with me.
posted by
mordent
on November 1, 2008 at 11:07 AM
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Aristocracy
Wait a minute. You mean there is a difference between people in rich neighborhoods and people in poor neighborhoods? What happened to "cultural communism"? Wouldn't that have as its primary goal the elimination of such differences? Once again, cultural communism fails as a concept. Diversity rules.
posted by
mousehop
on November 1, 2008 at 9:04 AM
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Mordent
I really dont know what to say to this post.... ..
~Peace, OTA
posted by
Blue_feathers
on October 31, 2008 at 12:15 PM
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work smart an save enough, you will be fine
posted by
Star5_
on October 30, 2008 at 7:14 PM
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Re: Re: Re: Aristocracy
Nope no chance of having blinders on. Way too observant for that. Here's a thought.
Go spend the day in rich neighborhood and then go spend the day in a poor neighborhood.
I travel constantly and extensively while most sit in their offices. Who do you thinks most qualified?
I'm a writer/actor whose inherent job is to observe people. While most sit there and read their cultural commie newspaper or listen to their garbage music and are trained constantly to not judge others and to love everybody blindly I'm always doing my detective work.
WHo do you thinks more qualified?
posted by
mordent
on October 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM
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My purpose is putting views forth. After that I don't care.
Generally what I say about the rich and poor is true.
Blacks are not all criminals but they do lead the way according to statistics.
How do you suppose I came to my conclusions if I don't watch and listen to people? Didn't you read my descriptions of slobs and the fit? That's what I do when I'm home or traveling.
Yeah anybody can fall on hard times but it is those that are most intelligent that will be more motivated and create and exploit opportunities.
As for relationships it is money that often has to do with them ending. I guarantee relationships where there's financial difficulty are overwith sooner.
Of course the rich divorce but generally in those affluent neighborhoods the family unit is more intact.
posted by
mordent
on October 30, 2008 at 10:00 AM
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Re: Re: Aristocracy
The basic nature of the human world hasn't changed much since Aristotle's time. Or was it Plato that lamented the ignorance and arrogance of the rising generation (including Aristotle)? 'Cultural communism' seems like a rhetorical flourish, and reminds me of George I (current president's father), with his Thousand Points of Light and other flourishes; catchy, impressive, and devoid of significance on closer view. Modern culture is remarkably diverse. I suspect you extrapolate from your own experience to the world at large. Maybe you're the one with blinders on.
posted by
mousehop
on October 30, 2008 at 8:16 AM
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I concur, success breeds success! Nice composition! sam
posted by
sam444
on October 29, 2008 at 5:17 PM
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"You should read some of my other posts as they would probably really make you angry."
I have read some of them. And why would you say that? Is that your purpose here? To try to make people angry?
What makes me angry is when people like yourself try to imply that they know everything about everyone.... like all the rich are intelligent health freaks, and all the poor are stupid jobless junk food eating slobs.
It's as bad as saying all blacks are thieves.... it just isn't true. And if you were as wordly and educated as you imply you are, you would know that.
Traveling isn't how you learn about people... watching and listening to people is how you learn about them.
So many people go from rich to poor, from poor to rich, and some of them go back and forth several times due to circumstances. It has nothing to do with one's intelligence...it has to do with motivation, opportunity, and other life circumstances.
I would NEVER chose someone based on how much money they have or don't have...no matter how much of it I have. If that is how superior "rich people" genes work...no wonder they can never maintain a consistent relationship. That to me is not intelligence at work...it's greed.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 29, 2008 at 4:49 PM
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Re: And by the way....
Traveling is how you learn about people. And yes I have seen the same patterns world-wide.
It's not quite so cut and dry as the last few lines in my post noted, but yes the patterns tend to be the same.
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mordent
on October 29, 2008 at 4:21 PM
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Re: No hon...you weren't talking about "just one woman"...
Yes you were right I did say those women were all the same. Because I knew a few of them and this woman also told me their stories. Some of them work but don't hold a job for too long and the dysfunction is obvious.
And yes the men who were hanging around that place were in fact free-loading off of them and their welfare check.
Many of those women in affluent neighborhoods are also professional people and not necessarily free-loading but there is no way in hell these women are marrying someone who isn't rich. They got the goods and they know it. As do the men who seek them out.
There is nothing sexist about the truth. All those politically correct terms...sexist, racist, homophobe etc.etc. are often used to evade truth.
If the men you know free-load than the chicks are dumb that allow it. And it sounds like you know a lot of these kinds of people. I hope you're not in one of those homes.
So I thought Cleveland but Pensylvania ain't far off. Got to give me credit.
You should read some of my other posts as they would probably really make you angry.
posted by
mordent
on October 29, 2008 at 4:19 PM
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And by the way....
I'm not on a sunny beach, and never claimed to be...big assumption on your part. And Cleveland isn't in PA!
And I don't see where traveling has anything to do with the issue? You imply that it's cut and dry, rich people are winners and poor people are dumb ass losers... In one town, every town and world wide.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 29, 2008 at 4:01 PM
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No hon...you weren't talking about "just one woman"...
You were talking about all of them. What a stud you must be to know all of those women so personally, in that situation.
"I once had a woman friend who was in a home for battered women.
These women were all the same."
Maybe you're the reason they are there?
"Smart guy goes for hot chick. Hot chick goes for smart guy."
"In looking around affluence I can see women approaching fifty and older who still look good and who're jogging or walking. This is to maintain health and make sure hubby with the fat wallet doesn't start wandering into younger fields."
Oh no...my mistake...you're not sexist at all. You're only implying that women need a man and that everything they do is for his money because they can't do for themselves.
There may be some women who freeload, but it's been my personal experience that men freeload as well.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 29, 2008 at 3:55 PM
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Or have the means to outsmart the poor with their business tactics**** W/TLC, BCA **** Bill*s Wave:: Blog on
posted by
BC-A
on October 29, 2008 at 2:07 PM
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Re: I have concluded that...
Brilliant. That should be a post of yours.
posted by
mordent
on October 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM
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Re: Aristocracy
I'm honestly not coming from a snob perspective but more of an observer of the human animal. Perhaps cold and harsh but that's me.
If people want to help other people that is their choice and I hope it accomplishes something for their sake. Or at least their conscience.
However in my observations it's usually like dumping water into a bucket with no bottom.
I think the world used to be a more honest, realistic place but cultural communisims got everyone believing fantasy.
posted by
mordent
on October 29, 2008 at 11:53 AM
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Re: Wow... your ignorance here shows that you must be really piss poor ?
What sunny beach are you on I wonder? The one in your mind obviously. And where have you traveled? Have you ever left Cleveland? The experience I had with the women is first-hand experience so there is no way you can call it sexist when it's absolute and total truth.
There are expensive healthy foods but you can make healthy food with very inexpensive ingredients. it wouldn 't matter as those slobs will keep going to McDonalds because they like poison anyway.
By the way I buy my own food daily.
Ignorant, sexist, all of those are hollow words that show no intellect.
Dump your politically correct rule book and start looking at reality.
posted by
mordent
on October 29, 2008 at 11:49 AM
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Aristocracy
Your observations and arguments mirror what the aristocracy has always said. And it may be based in truth. But in the modern world, much of the upper class has abandoned the concept of 'noblesse oblige', that those of the superior (in your world, rich) class have a responsibility to be model citizens and help the lower classes. What's our view on that?
posted by
mousehop
on October 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM
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Wow... your ignorance here shows that you must be really piss poor ?
Not only is everything you've said entirely untrue...but it's also very sexist.
And healthy food is cheap? I wonder...when is the last time you've bought your own food?
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on October 29, 2008 at 11:08 AM
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I have concluded that...
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that Obama is not an illusion.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on October 29, 2008 at 11:06 AM
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