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Re: Brashears on Hanson
In article <JMC.96Dec12230846@Steam.stanford.edu>,
jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy) wrote:
(big cut of environmental nonsense!)
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>I see Mr. Reiter has learned quite a few slogans in his freshman
>environmental studies class. Do you suppose they chant them in
>unison? My son's 5th grade class was made to chant environmental
>slogans.
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>Let's see we have
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>1. "Anyone who refuses to see himself or herself as
>part of nature is not truly living".
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>2. "Get a life".
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>3. "Green avenger".
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>4. the concept of an ecosystem with intelligence
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>5. "... people without a clue tend not to get it.", i.e. people who
>disagree with Reiter's teacher disagree with Reiter's teacher.
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>The main error of this post is that Reiter's teacher (Could he tell us
>the name, so we could argue with the ventriloquist rather than with
>the dummy?) is to neglect labor costs.
The ventriliquist is a dummy too! And a damned liberal, stupid "follow the
flock of sheep" dummy at that! If we could get these guys to change from
sheep to lemmings, our problems would shortly be solved.
Labor costs dominate any kind
>of recycling. People will do a certain amount of separating trash for
>a while when pumped up by a cause, but they will slack off when the
>next excitement comes along.
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>A sufficiently coercive regime can make people waste their time for
>ideological reasons, but then an ideological police force is required.
>I see Reiter as an ideological drill sergeant. "Pick up all the
>styrofoam in this landfill. Bend down there! All I want to see are
>elbows and assholes!"
Thanks for the chuckle - this was one of your more humorous replies.
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