Comments on: Angry Young Fools http://www.mattdude.com/40/angry-young-fools Thoughts on Life, Work, and Other Stuff Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:03:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mattdude http://www.mattdude.com/40/angry-young-fools/comment-page-1#comment-144 Mattdude Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:27:14 +0000 http://www.dijitari.com/mediaworkshop/wpblog/?p=9#comment-144 Yeah, "earning the right" to be angry probably isn't the best way to put it. I guess I'm thinking of it as a philosophical or moral right. That's an interesting point about the democracy issue. I've noticed that both sides of the political debate seem to respect public opinion only when it suits them. When Bush got reelected, a common liberal response was "well, Americans are stupid", but now that his approval rating has fallen, all of a sudden public opinion is respected again. -Matt Yeah, “earning the right” to be angry probably isn’t the best way to put it. I guess I’m thinking of it as a philosophical or moral right.

That’s an interesting point about the democracy issue. I’ve noticed that both sides of the political debate seem to respect public opinion only when it suits them. When Bush got reelected, a common liberal response was “well, Americans are stupid”, but now that his approval rating has fallen, all of a sudden public opinion is respected again.

-Matt

]]> By: Voidious http://www.mattdude.com/40/angry-young-fools/comment-page-1#comment-143 Voidious Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:26:45 +0000 http://www.dijitari.com/mediaworkshop/wpblog/?p=9#comment-143 Couldn't agree more with the idea that it's silly to become so passionate about certain things, since we, the public, are not aware of all the facts. However, I take issue with the wording of "earning the _right_"... I see it as more like "the privelege of me having any respect for your anger". Everyone has the "right" to feel any emotion at any time, in my opinion. It's interesting to consider the perspective of an agonized leftist in today's political climate: the writer of that letter has fantasies of (I'm deducing) violence against politicians because they aren't doing what he thinks is correct. But the majority of our population elected Bush and a Republican congress, true to our democratic form of government. So, if p (democracy) implies q (Republican gov't), then not-q (Democratic party gov't) implies not-p (not democracy), like some kind of dictatorship or monarchy. Would that really be better? And is that really what he would prefer? -- Voidious Couldn’t agree more with the idea that it’s silly to become so passionate about certain things, since we, the public, are not aware of all the facts.

However, I take issue with the wording of “earning the _right_”… I see it as more like “the privelege of me having any respect for your anger”. Everyone has the “right” to feel any emotion at any time, in my opinion.

It’s interesting to consider the perspective of an agonized leftist in today’s political climate: the writer of that letter has fantasies of (I’m deducing) violence against politicians because they aren’t doing what he thinks is correct. But the majority of our population elected Bush and a Republican congress, true to our democratic form of government. So, if p (democracy) implies q (Republican gov’t), then not-q (Democratic party gov’t) implies not-p (not democracy), like some kind of dictatorship or monarchy. Would that really be better? And is that really what he would prefer?

– Voidious

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