A human perceive the world via feelings. And the brief form of the feelings are emotions.

Everything caters to emotions.

“Beck, Colbert and Stewart all serve the same masters.”

Everybody’s serving somebody. Even top guys claim to serve the God (or their own greed, or mania of power).

If I had to pick, rather than a guy who desperately tries to make an argument (Beck), I’d rather go with a sincere guy (Stewart) or a frank liar (Colbert).

And sometimes the information density for an episode is low. Sometimes numbers are left out. But TDS does this in a second-hand-perspective that shows information is missing or misrepresented. It’s genius in that it both keeps attention, and enhances the curiosity for a report (which would otherwise garner no attention).

I wouldn’t put TDS/CR on the same level as Glenn Beck until they have a solo-subscription to their show, and start filling the commercials with advertisements for gold.

Get an account, so I can have a conversation with the same person.

(Rally was awesome, watched it on TV. Serious.)

relevant

Re domestication: government already views you as livestock.

Censored lolcat, nice.

a. an teabagger or

b. are ignorant

c. both of the above

Was fun to be there .. i flew all the way from Italy

Kinda strange, methinks, to lay such a ponderous poundage of blame at the doorstep of Generation X’s “fear of appearing lame.” I see lots and lots of reasons for the global sitch that makes us wanna stay in bed on Mondays and despair of positive change on Election Tuesdays.

But a desperate need for hipness on the part of Gen X? That’s what brings us to this sorry pass? That’s why Gen X voted for Obama, and that’s what explains the rise of libertarianism? And that’s why everyone-who-was-anyone showed up on the Mall on Saturday?

That’s a new foolishness to me.

My sign just said “VOTE FOR SANITY NOV 2″ — which I did this morning, and hope everyone reading this in the U.S. will do too.

Overall, the crowd I saw at the rally was moderate-liberal. Most people seemed to be there as a stand against the teabaggers and Glenn Beck.

I disagreed with some of Stewart’s closing speech. I don’t think you actually have to have committed genocide to be racist, for example. But the overall message — that the media and some politicians are trying to sell us fear and hatred, and we should reject it — was something that needs to be heard.

I do think there’s a danger of drawing false equivalences. There’s a danger of concluding that liberals should compromise with conservative extremists, otherwise we’re being rude; or concluding that calling extremism what it is, is just as bad as calling Obama a socialist commie fascist. It’s pretty clear that one side is selling a lot more fear and hatred than the other side, and Stewart & Colbert did not call that out. I wish they had.

However, most people at the rally didn’t really need to hear it stated. We knew we were there to tell Beck, O’Reilly, Limbaugh, and company to shut it. And because one side is doing most of the shouting, when 250,000 people come to DC to say “Stop shouting,” it’s pretty clear who they’re against.

So anyway. That’s my take, from attending the rally.

“Tea is the New Kool-Aid”

And I could understand the first point, seeing as he only has criticisms for those not romanticized by death ( http://exiledonline.com/how-meg-whitman-failed-her-way-to-the-top-at-ebay-collecting-billions-while-nearly-destroying-the-company/ , http://exiledonline.com/anatomy-of-a-libertard/ ). The second point I might see, but he de-legitimizes himself for making any statement on the rally, by writing a disclaimer – “And that was it for me — I was outta there.” at the end of the second paragraph. And the rest of the article seems to be a hammer on Jon Stewart for being a comedian, and “liberals”. “Liberals”, who were at the rally and weren’t hardcore enough; even though the rally was advertised for those who were sick of both extremes being overrepresented in the media. Then again, this guy idolizes Russian gangsters, because they aren’t fakes like American liberals ( http://exiledonline.com/russias-original-gangstas-meet-the-gopniki/ ). So maybe his opinion doesn’t really mean much in terms of criticisms and praise.

And the rhetoric. . .”In the depths of America’s Decline. . .etc” ><

Things are just. not. that. bad. (yet) So let people have their fun while they may: these are still good times lest we forget.

Yes, many people are unhappy. Yes, coming to terms with the new normal is proving very difficult for many, many Americans. Yet, this rally proves that things aren’t as bad as all that (actually, it proves folks like to get out and party. . .) But the death-knell of Liberalism? Please…

However if it makes my fellow ‘Xer’ feel better: when things really DO get bad: The Great Declines true nadir; when the climate ruins croplands and the masses are finally broke and starving, when cable TV and shitty fast-food don’t placate enough, when we paper our tent walls with $100′s and eat our own babies for breakfast: THEN the signs will lose their pithy and ironic tone. . .thank goodness!