tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post825586649463537881..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: A Binding DistractionTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-70060857902144999402012-10-23T22:46:52.975-05:002012-10-23T22:46:52.975-05:00RJ Adams ~~ Sounds a bit harsh, re the shallowness...RJ Adams ~~ Sounds a bit harsh, re the shallowness, but I have to agree, RJ. The concept of social networking initially didn't seem too bad, it has uses, but now has been taken too far in most instances - another of our human Earth-bound innate traits - taking things too far and showing off our worst faults.<br /><br />LOL! Yes you do excel in, erm... wonderfully "ripe" Brit turns of phrase. LOL! <br /><br /> Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-16072831845692432962012-10-23T22:09:38.730-05:002012-10-23T22:09:38.730-05:00I do feel that if there's one thing social med...I do feel that if there's one thing social media has done for the human race it's to display it's inherent shallowness, false egotism, and self-centered materialism. I note of late that Amazon now provides the means for me to announce via social media that I've just purchased a tube of hemorrhoid medicine. Twitter on that, if you will!<br />I find the very concept of 'social media' (read: 'mob gossip') abhorrent. Mike was way too kind. I'd prefer, 'retarded bloody wankers'.R J Adamshttp://sparrowchat.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-62514360985972581662012-10-23T11:45:53.426-05:002012-10-23T11:45:53.426-05:00Chomp ~ Yes, here we are in our Brave New World. ...Chomp ~ Yes, here we are in our Brave New World. Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-79539566310961753222012-10-23T03:16:30.658-05:002012-10-23T03:16:30.658-05:00Loving their servitude... Right!! So it is in our ...Loving their servitude... Right!! So it is in our tmes... Chomphttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jdvRQRqyB1I/TV8W7KeVFKI/AAAAAAAACyc/n2LIKr9v2dc/s1600/WallStreetGraphic4.pngnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-36240430115518849702012-10-19T08:40:27.268-05:002012-10-19T08:40:27.268-05:00Chomp ~~ Yes. They were both amazingly insightful...Chomp ~~ Yes. They were both amazingly insightful for their times, but in different ways.<br />In Wikipedia's page on Huxley we're told:<br /><br /><i>On 21 October 1949, Huxley wrote to George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, congratulating him on "how fine and how profoundly important the book is". In his letter to Orwell, he predicted:<br /><br />"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." </i>Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-44336676477931619582012-10-19T03:18:35.034-05:002012-10-19T03:18:35.034-05:00I do agree: “What Orwell feared were those who wou...I do agree: “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”<br /><br />Orwell remained inside the military states of the age before Second World War, people who have maintained that idea are incapable of understanding that control is not merely a military state! <br /><br />Huxley saw much farther and even better than Orwell <br /><br />Chomphttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-qQlbgCbdU/UIAFHyxuyfI/AAAAAAAAdr0/_pgCvqM7Wlo/s1600/armillarysphereHUXLEYORWELL.jpgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-21882580538212744972012-10-18T10:55:15.116-05:002012-10-18T10:55:15.116-05:00mike ~~ I'd vote for Obama if I lived in a swi...mike ~~ I'd vote for Obama if I lived in a swing state, Mike.<br />Romney is safe in Oklahoma, Obama hasn't a chance in hell here, so I shall vote my conscience and not put my name to drone bombing innocents. I'll vote Dem down ticket though, and leave the Prez line empty if there's no other option but the 2 Evils (almost certain to be the case). I understand your point of view, though.<br /><br />LOL!! LOL!! "Unintelligent social masturbation" - wonderful expression and so very apt!<br /><br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-58445265661292098642012-10-18T10:49:29.659-05:002012-10-18T10:49:29.659-05:00Wisewebwoman ~~ Perhaps I'm being unintentiona...Wisewebwoman ~~ Perhaps I'm being unintentionally thick here, but I didn't see what the hoo-ha was all about. <br /><br />I'm the last one to side with Romney - on anything - but I didn't see what he said as being bad - poorly expressed, but not bad.<br /><br />I believe it's a distraction pounced on and led by the Obama-bot crew. School-yard bully tactics.<br /><br />I'm as strongly in favour of equal rights, equal pay and all other equalities for women as the feminists are - I worked in a legal environment which supported these rights for 24 years in the UK. Even so - I didn't see anything particularly bad about Romney's remark.<br /><br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-23441097433958059372012-10-18T10:42:19.213-05:002012-10-18T10:42:19.213-05:00We had dumbed-out-Texas Bushisms for eight years, ...We had dumbed-out-Texas Bushisms for eight years, are we now on the way to dumbed-out-corporate Romneyisms? I read this morning that Romney is now ahead in the polls by six percent. I stated before in one of your posts, Twilight, I'll take the president that I know based on the past four years. The Romney that I don't know has potential to greatly diminish any advances made since Bush. I consider Facebook, Twitter, et al, to be unintelligent social masturbation.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-37732994873805121322012-10-18T10:14:36.558-05:002012-10-18T10:14:36.558-05:00It just may have cost him the election, T.
http:/...It just may have cost him the election, T.<br /><br />http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/world/shortcuts/2012/oct/17/binders-full-of-women-romneys-four-words<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.com