Tcahr Issue 19

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           TCAHR - Better Living Through Memetics 

Issue 19 
Rudy is an Idiot                                    02/15/01 
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I was steaming about the following topic already, but damn 
it all if that idiot Rudy Giuliani didn't have to be a 
complete dumb-ass Nazi wanna-be and launch another attack on 
the arts. 

So let's start with a quick psuedo-psychological test by 
checking out your gut responses to these following 
statements: 

Existentialism is stupid. 
Trans-humanism is stupid. 
Fatalism is stupid. 
Jungism is stupid. 
Catholicism is stupid. 
Judeoism is stupid. 

I betting that some of you did internal flip on the last 
two.  Why?  The only thing that make the last two statements 
different is that they are systems of thought which rely of 
the existence of a probably fictitious deity.  Take away God 
and you are left with the system of thought. 

Now if I gathered a random 10 people and took them to a cafe 
where we would probe the concept of existentialism, the 
debate might become heated.  People may be offended.  People 
may even actually be woken up out of their slumber and 
actually have to do something as uncomfortable as think! 
But in the end, we shared ideas and picked up new 
perceptions. 

Now let's that the same 10 people and instead make the 
subject Christianity or Judeoism.  Then we have to deal with 
being called intolerant, anti-Semetic, and the like. 
We would offend the people at the table, the waiters, the 
other tables, and probably get kicked out on our asses.  I 
guess it's not nice to question God, He may rain down a 
plauge of locust and frogs on the whole city as an 
expression of His love for humanity. 

I have to laugh at the concepts of freedom of speech and of 
expression in this country.  What good are these freedoms 
when the arts are barraged by such forces as money and 
politicians.  Whenever an artist is capable of sucessfully 
busting through the doors of cash without painting such risque 
material such as pretty posies, then an idiot in power tries 
to prove his or her cock-power and lock them out. 

We aren't allowed to witness questionable material.  We 
aren't allowed to make our own judgements.  In essence, we 
are not allowed to think.  The masses must be protected from 
thinking about radical ideas by a few minds with their own 
issues in the halls of power.  We might as well fill the 
libraries and art museums with Hallmark cards.  We should 
remember the lessons of history; one of the first targets of 
Hitler's Nazi regime was the arts.  I have to wonder what 
picture of New York is Rudy trying to build. 

Trying to shut down something or someone due to religious 
fever is stupid.  That's the thinking of an idiot, a moron, 
or even worse, a Giuliani. 
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