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  • February 19, 2007 at 4:27 pm #47453
    cpbell0033944
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    Please tell me that the following is a hoax: 😮 ???

    http://eleven.aol.co.uk/funny-videos/eleven-funny/1838694

    Can people actually be that dim?

    March 12, 2007 at 12:59 am #47454
    Cowprobe
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    Heck yeah.

    As long as there's electricity and gasoline and fun stuff on the TV I can't be bothered.  😉

    Then again they aren't hitting up the sharpest tacks in the box in the United States.

    However without the infrastructure to see across the world people wouldn't even have the capability to have the luxury of ignoring it. The next village over the hill would be far away enough.

    Is the essential cultural sin here not being interconnected enough? Not part of the technocrats? Sophistication suggests complexity and the more convoluted a structure the harder it is to maintain without specialized knowledge. Perhaps some deeper resentment at the pleasure addicted millions that provide barely cognizant fuel for the economy?

    Then again it's good to have an obedient population. Just saw '300' and that holds true for both sides of that fictionalized historic conflict.

    What's scary is when these divergent views of reality filtered through the appropriate media channels results in some drastic breaks from logic.

    Looks like an Ayn Rand moment there.  ::)

    People learn what's essential to their immediate survival it seems.

    Thanks for the thought provoking thread cpbell0033944.

    March 12, 2007 at 3:00 pm #47455
    cpbell0033944
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    Yes!  At last a response!  Thankyou Cowprobe. ;D  Unfortunately, I'm the dimwit here, because I can't pretend I understood all your cultural references – I don't know whether Ayn Rand is as well-known here in the UK as in the US.  I certainly understand and agree with the main points you made, though.
    As far as this quote is concerned:

    Is the essential cultural sin here not being interconnected enough? Not part of the technocrats? Sophistication suggests complexity and the more convoluted a structure the harder it is to maintain without specialized knowledge. Perhaps some deeper resentment at the pleasure addicted millions that provide barely cognizant fuel for the economy?

    I think you've found my snobbery bone.  I'd be the first to agree that many British people are also acting as unthinking, short-sighted consumers, but, because we're part of a larger whole (the EU) and because we're only a small group of islands anyway, we tend, I think, to be less insular than many Americans, who, by dint of the vast size of the US, seem utterly ignorant of anything that lies outside of its borders.  Above anything else, I just found it hysterically funny, but yet very thought-provoking, as you said.

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