"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying."
As compared to everyone who wants to do harm to the human race or everyone who doesn't give a rat's ass about the human race but for whom the human race stands in the way of what they want for themselves? Um, no.
Just curious. The quote implies that do gooders are the true bullies, yet, I've witnessed real bullies in my day and nobody can claim any goodness in them.
Well, I guess "do-gooders" can be considered bullies, because we challenge the status quo. Anyone who shakes things up and expects society to respond accordingly, could be considered a bully by those who hold power or who don't want things to change. But, in those instances I question who is really the bad guy.
I'd rather be on the side of good, on advancing society to live up to our principles and goals, than sit back and let shit continue down a screwed up path, even if that means I would be labeled a bully.
After getting ganged up on this week by Evil Insurance Company for daring to challenge them, I relish in being a bully.
"Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people."
"Do gooders" exist at both ends of the political spectrum (US politics is the reference I'm using). Rabid athropogenic global warming advocates and rabid 'pro-life' advocates certainly both view themselves as doing good for society, regardless of you own personal view of them. And, yes, they are both bullies. "Do gooders" can even exist in the center, though, my experience tells me they are more rare.
I would agree with Huxley entirely. If you are asking how many are bullies, I would say at least half.
If it wasn't this nation wouldn't be spending trillions of dollars nor be trillions of dollars in debt while our well dressed, comfortable, wealthy legislators go about their business making continuing promises they can never keep.
But good old sap-sucker americans will always buy into hope.
Thankfully, our savior, the messiah Obama will soon be advailable to apply the cure.
"Science is not about power. Science is not about money. Science is not about winning for the sake of winning. Science is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Science is about doing well for the people."
Unlike politics, science hasn't killed millions of people. It's saved millions of lives.
Should I mention thalidomide or Doctor Einstein who gave us the nuclear bomb?
The death toll from communism alone is 100 million. Add the millions of deaths from other political ideologies like ethno-nationalism and we can see that, if politics does have any good intentions, they've long been paving the road to hell.
Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Government bureaucracy is and probably always will be necessary. Every society needs administrators, pencil pushers who will take care of the business of picking up the garbage, issuing various licenses, defending the borders and paying the firemen.
Government is necessary but politics is a different story. Politics is what happens when the pencil pushers feel the need to pretend to be creative, when they act as if they have the ability to solve problems.
They're not creative, and they cause great damage when they pretend to be.
"Government is necessary but politics is a different story."
I understand what you hate about it but you're making a distinction where there really is none:
politicaladj1 a: of or relating to government, a government, or the conduct of government... [Webster's Collegiate, 10th Ed.]
You're also generalizing. There have been and still are many fine politicians who don't engage in the sort of "politics" most of us find deplorable. They are also mostly Democrats (apologies to Sen. Chuck Hagel).
Politics is a necessary evil. It can be about power, but often it's about keeping constituencies happy who want (and demand) different things.
None of us like it, but there's lots of things we don't like. If war is politics by other means, so politics is a less nasty version of war. It's ugly, but it keeps us from killing people and breaking things most of the time.
"Politics is not about power, or money, or winning ..." Paul Wellstone (Tim)
So tell us Tim, how is it that,
"In 2005, two months after her husband became a US senator, her salary was increased from $121,910 to $316,962. Shortly after that, Barack Obama got a $1,000,000 earmark for the hospital."
As compared to everyone who wants to do harm to the human race or everyone who doesn't give a rat's ass about the human race but for whom the human race stands in the way of what they want for themselves? Um, no.
So who is a bully? Everyone? No one?
I'd rather be on the side of good, on advancing society to live up to our principles and goals, than sit back and let shit continue down a screwed up path, even if that means I would be labeled a bully.
After getting ganged up on this week by Evil Insurance Company for daring to challenge them, I relish in being a bully.
That about sums it up for me....
His quote:
"Politics is not about power, or money, or winning ..."
is 100 % false.
I would agree with Huxley entirely. If you are asking how many are bullies, I would say at least half.
No, it's false for you. It wasn't false for him, and it's not false for every politician.
Politics is power,
and money,
and winning.
If it wasn't this nation wouldn't be spending trillions of dollars nor be trillions of dollars in debt while our well dressed, comfortable, wealthy legislators go about their business making continuing promises they can never keep.
But good old sap-sucker americans will always buy into hope.
Thankfully, our savior, the messiah Obama will soon be advailable to apply the cure.
"Science is not about power. Science is not about money. Science is not about winning for the sake of winning. Science is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Science is about doing well for the people."
Unlike politics, science hasn't killed millions of people. It's saved millions of lives.
Unlike politics, science works.
Well, except for millions on the early chemotherapy regimens for breast cancer or AZT for HIV patients and some with syphilis in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Should I mention thalidomide or Doctor Einstein who gave us the nuclear bomb?
The death toll from communism alone is 100 million. Add the millions of deaths from other political ideologies like ethno-nationalism and we can see that, if politics does have any good intentions, they've long been paving the road to hell.
..and how many lives has politics saved?
If you mean the means by which human beings institute government, the alternative being anarchy, well, you do the math.
Government is necessary but politics is a different story. Politics is what happens when the pencil pushers feel the need to pretend to be creative, when they act as if they have the ability to solve problems.
They're not creative, and they cause great damage when they pretend to be.
I understand what you hate about it but you're making a distinction where there really is none:
political adj 1 a: of or relating to government, a government, or the conduct of government... [Webster's Collegiate, 10th Ed.]
You're also generalizing. There have been and still are many fine politicians who don't engage in the sort of "politics" most of us find deplorable. They are also mostly Democrats (apologies to Sen. Chuck Hagel).
None of us like it, but there's lots of things we don't like. If war is politics by other means, so politics is a less nasty version of war. It's ugly, but it keeps us from killing people and breaking things most of the time.
So tell us Tim, how is it that,
"In 2005, two months after her husband became a US senator, her salary was increased from $121,910 to $316,962. Shortly after that, Barack Obama got a $1,000,000 earmark for the hospital."
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