Can we please fight back? Ron Paul on NPR on Tues. Can we get them to put on Chomsky?

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Remember when Howard Zinn died? The so called left leaning NPR aired an obituary of Mr Zinn by Noam Chomsky. It was followed by a rebuttal by right wing nut-case David Horowitz, someone with zero credentials to comment on Mr Zinn as either a historian or as a person.
I am sick to death of claims that the media at all is left wing media. On Thursday Diane Rehm's show is having Ron Paul on. Can we get a little balance here? How about an appearance by Noam Chomsky? Doesn't that sound at least a little fair?
come on DU! We can do this.

Here is my e-mail to the Diane Rehm show.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Here is their contact page. http://thedianerehmshow.org/contact

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1. Dune, nice quote.

Although I did not remember that full quote, there is thought on the larger context.


The Voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqQnhBtxaI


(note that song does not believe in temporal lore)

I see it as an advocate for those in hardship.


heh, Nice try.

The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svWINSRhQU0

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2. That is a nice quote it is not what I intended though. I don't know how I did that...

I basically wrote in a little nicer terms what I proposed, that she should have Noam Chomsky on sometimes as a balance to that nuter Paul.

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3. The nice try was a responce to an attempt at diversion or association in another thread.

Not about your thread.

Your comment on how fear can hurt the mind is in many places, and it was well said in Dune.

The best example was where he put his hand into a fire box, and the presumed situation was damage, the visceral emotional feeling, but the thinking feeling knew it not true. Also Daniel story.

So that situation is can you choose with thinking to override an instinctual feeling that does not make sense.

The visceral illusion tries to create fear of future damage, from one possible perceived future, based on the damage he thinks he feels in the fire box. But he knows mentally that his hand is not being damaged.

It has the idea of thought, and thinking overcoming perceived possible futures. And most of fear is a perceived possible future, trying to direct an action.

In that you can see a twinge of temporal lore, but constructed by ones own mind of letting a perceived future define some action, something that should not be done if it does not make sense.


In temporal lore, people believe the future is messing with the Now.
When in fear, a perceived outcome in the future, messes with your choices in the Now.

The choices of the Now, should be based on best decisions, not illusions based on fear of low probability, or unknown possible futures. And most fear tries to create a low probability event, that can not be known, as what someone will think will be the future.

A person afraid of flying, has an unpurportional view of what will happen when they fly, and that wrong perceived future out of perspective controls there feeling in the now.

Also why I like this song.

Going to California by Led Zeppelin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpVLlnQ08OA

And this song

Molly Hatchet: Flirtin With Disaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhhtRxqSrys


The molly hatchet song can easily be seen as not letting some 'perceived fearful future' change what you think is best. But instead making sense of it, even if it might feel like a gamble, without that illusionary fear, you choose your destiny.


"Or Everybody Look At Your Hands"
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7movKfyTBII


Could be a touch of the Dune fire box encounter also in that song.