InvisibleBlack
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ORIGINAL: cuckyman the 'point' of America is about freedom....rough around the edges as it might be... But if you believe in freedom, then shouldn't the so-called "progressives" be allowed to live in their "large metropolitian areas" and "grow nothing" and "create little other than words and 'products'..." if that's what they want to do? As long as it makes them happy and they don't come around any try to force you into moving to the city and working in the publishing industry or whatever? quote:
we raised the largest standard of living the world has ever witnessed....and more to come..... Wouldn't that "largest standard of living the world has ever witnessed" be due to the efforts of inventors and industrialists and scientists and thinkers who built the cities and the factories and increased the productivity of the average working man and be entirely unrelated to anything done by those "surviving out in the hinterlands"? And whether that's true or not, wouldn't freedom be allowing everyone to live the lifestyle they want to live, regardless of its location or nature? You don't have to like an "urban progressive" to grant him or her the right to exist and be left alone in their own "fantasy world". quote:
by what ever measure you disagree with freedom is only a symptom of your stupidity.... So by your own definition - where you disagree with the freedoms of these others, you are only displaying the symptoms of your own stupidity? quote:
but you are too ignorant to trust in a 'free' society.... You are, quite honestly, the first person in my entire life to ever accuse me of that. quote:
you are not one of us....you are one of 'them'.... I tend not to think in an us/them mindset but I suspect that even by your definitions I'm neither one of "us" nor "them". I don't think either group would have me. quote:
and 'them' is about to become a vilified ex patriot.... I'm not following you there. quote:
one way or another...get with the program, or go show us how great you are by example somewhere else..... Actually, I think I'm doing quite well for myself these days and since I don't live anywhere near you, I'd suppose I am demonstrating the success of my worldview by example somewhere else even as we type. My basic philosophy is that I pretty much don't care what you believe or what you do as long as you don't bother anyone else. Since I'm not imposing anything on you down in gatorland, don't see why this should be a problem. Anyways, work tomorrow so I'm off to bed. We'll pick this up when the day is done.
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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.
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