The Tea Party LOVES America...

[Doktor Howl]

I wish I didn't have anything going on tonight.

I'm just going to cut and paste reviews from other (fictional) books.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.planetarybillofrights.org/ is her personal website, by the way.

It's like Tea Party meets Time Cube.

I saw that, and was wondering how her brain doesn't implode from the cognitive dissonance of being a member of a party that wants to shoot or imprison immigrants, while proposing a planetary bill of human rights based on the idea of the sovereignty of personhood.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I wish I didn't have anything going on tonight.

I'm just going to cut and paste reviews from other (fictional) books.

It is quite possible that my review will be nonsensical stream-of-consciousness.

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.planetarybillofrights.org/ is her personal website, by the way.

It's like Tea Party meets Time Cube.

I saw that, and was wondering how her brain doesn't implode from the cognitive dissonance of being a member of a party that wants to shoot or imprison immigrants, while proposing a planetary bill of human rights based on the idea of the sovereignty of personhood.

There's a certain level of introspection that we've gotten used to here, that's sort of spoiled us for the rest of the world.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.planetarybillofrights.org/ is her personal website, by the way.

It's like Tea Party meets Time Cube.

I saw that, and was wondering how her brain doesn't implode from the cognitive dissonance of being a member of a party that wants to shoot or imprison immigrants, while proposing a planetary bill of human rights based on the idea of the sovereignty of personhood.

There's a certain level of introspection that we've gotten used to here, that's sort of spoiled us for the rest of the world.

It's true. And then I look around me and I'm filled with horror.

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.planetarybillofrights.org/ is her personal website, by the way.

It's like Tea Party meets Time Cube.

I saw that, and was wondering how her brain doesn't implode from the cognitive dissonance of being a member of a party that wants to shoot or imprison immigrants, while proposing a planetary bill of human rights based on the idea of the sovereignty of personhood.

There's a certain level of introspection that we've gotten used to here, that's sort of spoiled us for the rest of the world.

It's true. And then I look around me and I'm filled with horror.

Horrormirth, here.  I can't stop laughing.  It's like going to the zoo and watching them feed monkeys LSD.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.planetarybillofrights.org/ is her personal website, by the way.

It's like Tea Party meets Time Cube.

I saw that, and was wondering how her brain doesn't implode from the cognitive dissonance of being a member of a party that wants to shoot or imprison immigrants, while proposing a planetary bill of human rights based on the idea of the sovereignty of personhood.

There's a certain level of introspection that we've gotten used to here, that's sort of spoiled us for the rest of the world.

It's true. And then I look around me and I'm filled with horror.

Horrormirth, here.  I can't stop laughing.  It's like going to the zoo and watching them feed monkeys LSD.

What I don't understand is why everyone is upset, everyone knows it's fucked, but no one can seem to DO ANYTHING.

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.planetarybillofrights.org/ is her personal website, by the way.

It's like Tea Party meets Time Cube.

I saw that, and was wondering how her brain doesn't implode from the cognitive dissonance of being a member of a party that wants to shoot or imprison immigrants, while proposing a planetary bill of human rights based on the idea of the sovereignty of personhood.

There's a certain level of introspection that we've gotten used to here, that's sort of spoiled us for the rest of the world.

It's true. And then I look around me and I'm filled with horror.

Horrormirth, here.  I can't stop laughing.  It's like going to the zoo and watching them feed monkeys LSD.

What I don't understand is why everyone is upset, everyone knows it's fucked, but no one can seem to DO ANYTHING.

I'm beginning to think that humanity has a complexity threshhold.  Beyond that, they can't get anything done.  I'm sort of thinking of the Romans and the Soviets and us.  And when we hit that threshold, Crazy Eddie gets things all his own way.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

 

I no longer feel the horror part of horrormirth.  It's all fricking hilarious now.

Heh.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.planetarybillofrights.org/ is her personal website, by the way.

It's like Tea Party meets Time Cube.

I saw that, and was wondering how her brain doesn't implode from the cognitive dissonance of being a member of a party that wants to shoot or imprison immigrants, while proposing a planetary bill of human rights based on the idea of the sovereignty of personhood.

There's a certain level of introspection that we've gotten used to here, that's sort of spoiled us for the rest of the world.

It's true. And then I look around me and I'm filled with horror.

Horrormirth, here.  I can't stop laughing.  It's like going to the zoo and watching them feed monkeys LSD.

What I don't understand is why everyone is upset, everyone knows it's fucked, but no one can seem to DO ANYTHING.

I'm beginning to think that humanity has a complexity threshhold.  Beyond that, they can't get anything done.  I'm sort of thinking of the Romans and the Soviets and us.  And when we hit that threshold, Crazy Eddie gets things all his own way.

I think you've nailed it. Get enough bureaucracy going on, and everybody just sort of goes shell-shocked.

[Doktor Howl]

I no longer feel the horror part of horrormirth.  It's all fricking hilarious now.

Heh.

You will.  It's a cyclical thing.

[Doktor Howl]

I think you've nailed it. Get enough bureaucracy going on, and everybody just sort of goes shell-shocked.

I think it goes beyond bureaucracy.  It's not the system, it's the information.  We have too much of it.

[Cramulus]

Dok's right... we've passed some kind of veil of complexity. Bureaucracy is a defense mechanism we concocted to deal with it. There are no simple issues. The system is questionable, the media reporting on the system is questionable, and that means that even the opinions of people you trust are questionable. Anybody that tries to boil things down to a soundbyte like "these guys hate freedom" is either misinformed or misleading you.

We've all got to get comfortable with complexity, nuance, and gray areas because it's the only honest way to deal with Chaos (that's Chaos with a capital C).

Tea Party meets Time Cube.

That's MY American Dream

[LMNO]

Question: Is this new (ish), or have we as a relatively enlightened crew merely seen past the veils of Order and Disorder and into the throbbing guts of Chaos?


That is to say, was the "simple" past only our blinders of (an)eris?

[Doktor Howl]

Question: Is this new (ish), or have we as a relatively enlightened crew merely seen past the veils of Order and Disorder and into the throbbing guts of Chaos?


That is to say, was the "simple" past only our blinders of (an)eris?

No, things really are more complex.  Seriously more so than in even the 1980s.