Do not gloat about these dickheads being wrong, learn from them.
These guys are very effective teachers about what is wrong with our culture. In the same way that a vaccine gives your body a little taste of the virus so that it learns how to eventually kick it's ass. Take what you learn from these guys to become a real fighter in the real world.
This, my dear friends, is a sandboxa little forum that doesnt mean shit. This is the first place I ever participated in a thread and it is great in that you develop pseudo relationships with the major players---but again, you really should be reading lots of other stuff to learn your chops for when it counts. Here, the SG threads are home to Special Olympians of opinion. Just look at the archetypes we are given here:
Stockulamy personal favorite and the most clear and completely inadvertant example of coyote logic that I think I know. Hes absolutely full of shit, usually childish, and always monumentally frustrating if you let him get to you. Work a couple factory jobs and you will meet you fair share of these types (though he is actually some sort of Stock broker when hes employed)and there is no escaping the fact that you have got to learn how to deal with this type of asshole. Coyote is in some Native American mythos known to be the trickster, the spirit the teaches you something you need to learn. This lesson is seldom pleasant and the Coyote doesnt really care if you actually learn anythingbut pay attention to this dickhead. You will learn a valuable lesson about what goes wrong with people, and what to do about them. Learn how to deal with him without getting his stank on you, and dont take him seriouslyhe sure as shit doesnt take you seriously.
PatrickPatrick is a nice guy. Hes got an old dog, loves his wife, likes to Put on the Brit and read comic books. He has served this country for many years in the armed service, and is about to again. For that I respect him. He is also trying his hand at writing in this little microcosm of SG, and I expect that he does so with what he assumes is the same meticulous attention to detail that he probably thinks he does most things. Hes a stickler for spelling and grammar that guy! If you are wondering why the fuck is this dude on SG, it is because he was asked to provide conservative viewpoints. Unfortunately for our reading pleasure, Patrick seldom provides anything of substance. My armchair diagnosis is that he is suffering from a very acute case of Cognitive Dissonance. Colors that fall outside of his limited palette do not appear within his spectrum--he just doesnt, and will not, see how horrific the results of his limited worldview (magnified to 51% of our country) have made the world for the rest of us. Ever read Of Mice and Men? Well you probably should. Be nice to Patrick, but keep showing him where hes wrong. Also watch out, because he might be right once in a while (and he uses cool and manly phrases)
TottenPure slime My grandmother liked to use a phrase Never trust a salesman who tells you hes honest Enter Michael J Totten who thinks boots taste like black licorice and would step over his own grandmother for the next chance to feed his goateed ego at the trough of third string hack-dom. Michael used to be a Liberal but now hes an Independent who takes every opportunity to prove it by endlessly parroting White House talking points on the Middle East, kind of like an idiot version of Juan Cole--but more like a marginally smarter version of Jeff Guckert(presumably without the butt-sex, since hes legit now). Michael respects guys like Jonah Goldberg and Christopher Hitchinsin WWII there were lots of guys like these guys. I believe that they were called collaborators but you just as well call them De-facto Murderers. Ever read Mother Night by Vonnegut? Well, you should (read all his shit)Mother Night has this great line where he says "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." (that doesn't have much to do with Totten, but it is a great line--especially for coporate dickheads like me. The book overall does have a lot to say about him) Someday, we can only hope, America will scrape shit like Totten off of our collective shoe and get the carpets cleaned. For now, I humbly suggest that you take the--I dont know, 10 minutes of--time that it takes to see through his shit and call him on it. Assume that he is a bottom feeder and you are half way there.
Stay strong brothers and sister--someday you could be as cool as this guy
Yep, got one more month on my membershipZot at will.
These guys are very effective teachers about what is wrong with our culture. In the same way that a vaccine gives your body a little taste of the virus so that it learns how to eventually kick it's ass. Take what you learn from these guys to become a real fighter in the real world.
This, my dear friends, is a sandboxa little forum that doesnt mean shit. This is the first place I ever participated in a thread and it is great in that you develop pseudo relationships with the major players---but again, you really should be reading lots of other stuff to learn your chops for when it counts. Here, the SG threads are home to Special Olympians of opinion. Just look at the archetypes we are given here:
Stockulamy personal favorite and the most clear and completely inadvertant example of coyote logic that I think I know. Hes absolutely full of shit, usually childish, and always monumentally frustrating if you let him get to you. Work a couple factory jobs and you will meet you fair share of these types (though he is actually some sort of Stock broker when hes employed)and there is no escaping the fact that you have got to learn how to deal with this type of asshole. Coyote is in some Native American mythos known to be the trickster, the spirit the teaches you something you need to learn. This lesson is seldom pleasant and the Coyote doesnt really care if you actually learn anythingbut pay attention to this dickhead. You will learn a valuable lesson about what goes wrong with people, and what to do about them. Learn how to deal with him without getting his stank on you, and dont take him seriouslyhe sure as shit doesnt take you seriously.
PatrickPatrick is a nice guy. Hes got an old dog, loves his wife, likes to Put on the Brit and read comic books. He has served this country for many years in the armed service, and is about to again. For that I respect him. He is also trying his hand at writing in this little microcosm of SG, and I expect that he does so with what he assumes is the same meticulous attention to detail that he probably thinks he does most things. Hes a stickler for spelling and grammar that guy! If you are wondering why the fuck is this dude on SG, it is because he was asked to provide conservative viewpoints. Unfortunately for our reading pleasure, Patrick seldom provides anything of substance. My armchair diagnosis is that he is suffering from a very acute case of Cognitive Dissonance. Colors that fall outside of his limited palette do not appear within his spectrum--he just doesnt, and will not, see how horrific the results of his limited worldview (magnified to 51% of our country) have made the world for the rest of us. Ever read Of Mice and Men? Well you probably should. Be nice to Patrick, but keep showing him where hes wrong. Also watch out, because he might be right once in a while (and he uses cool and manly phrases)
TottenPure slime My grandmother liked to use a phrase Never trust a salesman who tells you hes honest Enter Michael J Totten who thinks boots taste like black licorice and would step over his own grandmother for the next chance to feed his goateed ego at the trough of third string hack-dom. Michael used to be a Liberal but now hes an Independent who takes every opportunity to prove it by endlessly parroting White House talking points on the Middle East, kind of like an idiot version of Juan Cole--but more like a marginally smarter version of Jeff Guckert(presumably without the butt-sex, since hes legit now). Michael respects guys like Jonah Goldberg and Christopher Hitchinsin WWII there were lots of guys like these guys. I believe that they were called collaborators but you just as well call them De-facto Murderers. Ever read Mother Night by Vonnegut? Well, you should (read all his shit)Mother Night has this great line where he says "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." (that doesn't have much to do with Totten, but it is a great line--especially for coporate dickheads like me. The book overall does have a lot to say about him) Someday, we can only hope, America will scrape shit like Totten off of our collective shoe and get the carpets cleaned. For now, I humbly suggest that you take the--I dont know, 10 minutes of--time that it takes to see through his shit and call him on it. Assume that he is a bottom feeder and you are half way there.
Stay strong brothers and sister--someday you could be as cool as this guy
Yep, got one more month on my membershipZot at will.
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I want to see Laswell's retraction...
Like that will ever happen!
BTW - My membership is up the 6th. I am not renewing. When the SG Radio thing happened I just about died. Add that to the Playbiy and other commercial tie-ins and it spells bye bye for me.
[Edited on May 25, 2005 10:17PM]
PN? I have no idea what you mean????
I think it was probably Solaris I was baiting you with.
(Uh don't worry Solaris..... i was merely using you as a decent reason to move to Canada....)
She lives in my town.
So do Bettina and a few others.
As far as completing the scene goes: what can I say about BC that the whole world doesn't already know?