In Reply to: and, we are pre-distracted, largely by choice. We ain't gonna learn what we don't want to know. posted by bongo on 2012-05-01 13:48:51

• Half of the world's species gone by the end of the century... why arent we protesting in the streets   -  shikantaza  2012-05-01 10:09:52 (82 views)
• "Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?" - "What d'ya got!" Look, man, I've been there and done  -  BackseatGM  2012-05-01 11:05:03 (86 views)
• +1  -  nomad  2012-05-01 11:30:18 (74 views)
• That's absolutely true in both those cases but you can't muster up that much reaction to everything  -  BackseatGM  2012-05-01 11:37:53 (64 views)
• Agreed. But everyone thinks their cause is different, far more important  -  nomad  2012-05-01 11:46:08 (63 views)
• Yep, well said. But two issues I'm not feeling the need to carry a sign about are, our need to cut  -  BackseatGM  2012-05-01 13:47:25 (65 views)
• don't really agree... I think most people know the situation but don't understand  -  shikantaza  2012-05-01 15:16:00 (64 views)
• I post this every so often   -  Shallow Hal  2012-05-01 11:01:52 (74 views)
• The relevant part of his point is contradictory, for the most part  -  buzz  2012-05-01 21:59:53 (56 views)
• seems fairly obvious... Carlin's take seemed to remove humans from the fucking up things part  -  shikantaza  2012-05-01 22:49:54 (52 views)
• No. Carlin had two points. One, that a lot of stuff happens  -  gsw_hoops  2012-05-02 10:17:48 (49 views)
• That's not exactly it either  -  Shallow Hal  2012-05-02 10:32:35 (52 views)
• huh? your main point is that environmentalists are just selfish...  -  shikantaza  2012-05-02 11:27:32 (45 views)
• Not shockingly, you didn't get it at all   -  Shallow Hal  2012-05-02 09:11:26 (36 views)
• This is worth 7 minutes if you like George Carlin. LMAO   -  BackseatGM  2012-05-01 13:48:51 (49 views)
• meh...  -  shikantaza  2012-05-01 11:19:20 (72 views)
• Apparently, the "we didn't kill them all" part didn't make a huge impression on you  -  Shallow Hal  2012-05-01 14:59:11 (55 views)
• I love George Carlin... I didn't have time to watch the whole thing.  -  shikantaza  2012-05-01 15:13:11 (53 views)
• They are!   -  gribble the mispost master  2012-05-01 10:15:00 (74 views)
• yea... I'm not really convinced either way, I guess, but I do think normal people instead of psychos  -  shikantaza  2012-05-01 10:22:37 (64 views)
• The point of a protest is public awareness, which gets instantly distracted by violence  -  nomad  2012-05-01 11:38:02 (63 views)
• and, we are pre-distracted, largely by choice. We ain't gonna learn what we don't want to know.  -  bongo  2012-05-01 13:48:51 (59 views)
• Yep. We've got bread & circuses - what more do we need?   -  nomad  2012-05-01 15:21:36 (45 views)