tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post6391401407710542633..comments2024-03-28T09:38:52.661-04:00Comments on thwap's schoolyard: I'm Glad I Didn't Waste My Time ...thwaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-92131595988359956712008-11-18T15:47:00.000-05:002008-11-18T15:47:00.000-05:00Truth be told, I didn't read that government websi...Truth be told, I didn't read that government website. I skimmed the title and some headlines and figured this the perfect example of the tripe I'm saying I haven't been reading.<BR/><BR/>I'm delighted that it was as useless as I assumed it was.<BR/><BR/>You've provided a far more eloquent description of the dumbing-down of our society than I was able to do.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-45779120671102797712008-11-18T13:55:00.000-05:002008-11-18T13:55:00.000-05:00Love that government website. It is Canada's "Enga...Love that government website. <BR/>It is Canada's "Engagement" in Afghanistan. <BR/>I thought it was a "mission"! Well as long as it's anything but a war or occupation.<BR/> <BR/>First it was about "retribution", then about "tackling" terror (The noun war), and finally it settled at some kind of benevolent "mission" for gunpoint "democracy" and the rights of Muslim women.<BR/><BR/>The last rationale was the weirdest because if you ask any conservative about Muslims you get the whole "Islamofascists" are coming to kill you for your "freedoms" rant. <BR/>But we sure do care about what their women can wear and do....<BR/> <BR/>The ever changing rationales for the war should be a clue, even for the least discerning among us, that the promoters of this long standing occupation are chock full of shit. <BR/><BR/>When Steve declares that Canada has become more conservative he is correct.<BR/>Canada has become a dumbed-down nation of "me-first" meatheads.<BR/>Nice, ignorant, cliché riddled "Tim Horton's folks".<BR/><BR/>The result of this intellectual degradation is a downgrade from tolerant citizens to conservative consumers. <BR/>Ignorant fear of a concocted bogeymen + unabashed materialist greed = more conservative.<BR/><BR/>The dead eyed psychopathic "intelligentsia" of the conservative movement can sell anything to these Canadian pie-holes as a moral duty or a sanctified effort for the amorphous concept of "freedom".<BR/><BR/>The intellectual black hole of religion and the hypnotic myopia of ultra nationalism provide endless fuel for the fire that is burning off the last vestiges of a progressive Canada. <BR/><BR/>" The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." <BR/>John Kenneth Galbraith<BR/><BR/>amenYoungfoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12304744490866872679noreply@blogger.com