The Politics of Tiki - General Tiki

K kahukini Member Joined: Mar 28, 2002 Posts: 555	K kahukini Posted posted on Wed, Aug 6, 2003 12:46 PM tikifish and monkeyman, my observation about popular political discussion offline and online is that liberal people, true to their philosophy, tend not to be interested in political talk for a couple of major reasons. 1) they recognize that the world isn't black and white, it is actually quite complex, and when a person realizes how much they do not know spouting off on huge political topics seems much less attractive, 2) if you're liberal, you want people to do whatever they like so long as it's not hurting you directly, hence you are not easily enraged and self-righteous, hence there is little motivation to host a radio talk show or call into one, or post on the internet. It's a major problem, and I'm not sure how it can be fixed. Combine that with the fact that conservatives and religious people and the less intelligent are more likely to reproduce, and the future starts to look bleak. Downward biological evolution of course will take just as many millenia as it did going upward, and hey maybe the first nuclear war they cause will result in some fortunate mutations interrupting the trend. http://deus.org [ Edited by: kahukini on 2003-08-06 12:49 ]

tikifish and monkeyman, my observation about popular political discussion offline and online is that liberal people, true to their philosophy, tend not to be interested in political talk for a couple of major reasons. 1) they recognize that the world isn't black and white, it is actually quite complex, and when a person realizes how much they do not know spouting off on huge political topics seems much less attractive, 2) if you're liberal, you want people to do whatever they like so long as it's not hurting you directly, hence you are not easily enraged and self-righteous, hence there is little motivation to host a radio talk show or call into one, or post on the internet.
It's a major problem, and I'm not sure how it can be fixed. Combine that with the fact that conservatives and religious people and the less intelligent are more likely to reproduce, and the future starts to look bleak. Downward biological evolution of course will take just as many millenia as it did going upward, and hey maybe the first nuclear war they cause will result in some fortunate mutations interrupting the trend.

http://deus.org

[ Edited by: kahukini on 2003-08-06 12:49 ]

Post #46360 by kahukini on Wed, Aug 6, 2003 12:46 PM