Advocations (was Re: Mondaugen's law)

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

calbert at tiac.net wrote:
> 
> > >>
> > >> Freedom is good
> 
> Freedom is a necessary illusion.


freedom is sweet bondage.  


> 
> > >> Hurting people (without their consent) is bad
> 
> "Hurt" and "bad" truly are relative.


Your posts profound yet curt do make bad good, and good
provoke to hurt. 


> 
> > >> Knowledge is good
> 
> Knowledge is just another religion.
> When it contributes to awareness, you've got Blicero.

Knowledge may be power, but it is the only investment that
doesn't yield an increasing return in America today. 


> 
> > >> Fun is good
> 
> Fun is the ONLY meaningful "currency".

Currency is the only meaningful fun. 

> 
> > >> Keeping cool is practical
> 
> Keeping cool is essential.

So is keeping warm.


> 
> > >> Caring is good
> 
> Care, and its cousins, sympathy and earnestness are acts of self
> indulgence.

Acts? No offspring, sprung from Self Indulgence's head with
a whole brood of bleeding hearts. 


> 
> > >OK, so he advocates these common denominators, so what. I
> > >think Jerry Springer advocates these common denominators
> > >too, isn't there a difference?
> 
> Springer elicits and panders, P "merely" illustrates.
> 
> love,
> cfa

Pynchon   "      "   illustrates.