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Reply #28: Brilliant. Thank you for adding that here. [View All]

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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 04:47 PM
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28. Brilliant. Thank you for adding that here.
"I'm not a "cult of personality," kind of person, like many of the knee-jerkers here on DU, (except for when it comes to Mario Cuomo, Frank Zappa or Thomas Jefferson"

:rofl: Glad you've got yer priorities straight.

The hazards of the hijacked narrative have become the name of the game. Which makes the individual, pre-mediated act all the more powerful and vital.

"How do you think that the GOP got to be as pervasive as they are? They always credit it to their "reason," but it's really not -- it's baseless fear and sentimentality -- two of the most irrational human emotions that there are."

Echoes of Reagan's schtick: got the snowball rolling on today's Big Lie machine.

I understand your point about current attitudes, but the carping that showed up on DU after the March seemed really-- pardon me-- petty and wasteful...

"even the people who "do something," for the movement, occassionally, are still far too chained to their computers -- and don't need to be harshing others for their ineffectiveness."

Here you touch on how the individual, pre-mediated act does make a difference, witnessed or not:

"We'd do far better to make individual, local changes, rather than uplink our brains into the national discourse -- which is a circus, in and of itself, as far as I'm concerned, and to make changes in our lives, in our activities, in our buying habits, in our alliances, rather than tailgate behind an icon, and expect it to sweep us to glory."

:bounce:

"All of this talk -- this chattering class-ing, gets us nowhere. Hands do. The rest of this, which all falls under "opinion leading," as in -- who can we sway with Cindy or Viggo or which narrative, or whatever, is counter-productive and is nothing more than a distraction."

I prefer the "chatter" if it is instructive, part of a process.... (and you have redeemed DU's potential for me today).

I mentioned VM because the persona he projected on Charlie Rose Friday night was note perfect. We could all take his calm, direct approach as an example of how to communicate effectively.

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