Thinking

[wordsmythe]

Since this is too long for a sig line you'll only get to read it when you come here. Enjoy! I know I did.

"It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then, just to loosen up.

"Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

In no mood to deal with the emotional drama. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door .

"I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche. I roared into the parking lot, with NPR blaring on the radio, and ran up to the big glass doors...They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a Poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

"You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinkers Anonymous poster.

"Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

"I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's."

"Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

"I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home

"Life just seemed...easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.

"I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

"Today I made the final step:

I registered to vote as a Republican."

[Highwayman]

The concept of a “thinking liberal” is a thing of the past. "Liberal thought" has become an oxymoron. Dennis Prager expressed this well in his column.

…..Welcome to the thoughtless world of contemporary liberalism. Beginning in the 1960s, liberalism, once the home of many deep thinkers, began to substitute feeling for thought and descended into superficiality.

One-word put-downs of opponents' ideas and motives were substituted for thoughtful rebuttal. Though liberals regard themselves as intellectual -- their views, after all, are those of nearly all university professors -- liberal thought has almost died. Instead of feeling the need to thoughtfully consider an idea, most liberal minds today work on automatic. One-word reactions to most issues are the liberal norm……

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/colu...23/198416.html

If you are not a liberal at twenty-five, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by thirty-five you have no brains.

[lurker]

More food for thought.....

One-word reactions to most issues are the liberal norm.

This is easy to demonstrate.


Here is a list of terms liberals apply to virtually every idea or action with which they differ:

Racist
Sexist
Homophobic
Islamophobic
Imperialist
Bigoted
Intolerant

And here is the list of one-word descriptions of what liberals are for:

Peace
Fairness
Tolerance
The poor
The disenfranchised
The environment

These two lists serve contemporary liberals in at least three ways.

First, they attack the motives of non-liberals and thereby morally dismiss the non-liberal person.

Second, these words make it easy to be a liberal -- essentially all one needs to do is to memorize this brief list and apply the right term to any idea or policy. That is one reason young people are more likely to be liberal -- they have not had the time or inclination to think issues through, but they know they oppose racism, imperialism and bigotry, and that they are for peace, tolerance and the environment.

Third, they make the liberal feel good about himself -- by opposing conservative ideas and policies, he is automatically opposing racism, bigotry, imperialism, etc.

Examples could fill a book.