No Reason to Get ExcitedPosted on LiveJournal 21st October 2008 The fatal flaw in the liberal and secular schools of thought is tolerance of stupid ideas. The phrase Everyone is entitled to his opinion is meaningless and should not be used as a defence of idiocy. I can see a time coming where normal, sensible people with normal, sensible ideas are marginalised and maniacs end up telling them what to do. To a certain extent, this has already happened, and to be honest, it's probably a continuing feature of humanity. The best lack all conviction, while the worst Some revelation indeed. Sensible people with rational ideas should gird their loins for the coming blood-dimmed tide, because otherwise they might get their asses handed to them. Silence is always taken by these ignorant pig-fuckers as some sort of assent, so we're just going to have to speak up. Write letters, tell your friends, let everyone know that it's OK to be sensible. The next time you hear anyone try to argue that gays are somehow a different species, let him have it - with both barrels! Fuck it; life's too short. The next time someone says something racist within earshot, just speak up. It's not going to make you flavour of the month but at least the waterhead wasn't greeted with silence. The next time someone tries to sell you some religious fun and games, just say: "Look, normally I would just nod and smile and then organise some sort of escape, but today, I'm going to be straight with you. It's total bullshit. Everything you believe is wrong. I can prove it, but your brain is so baked from having deep-fried bullshit thrown at it for so long, it probably won't have any effect. Now, you can continue to try to drag others into your vat of shit if you like, but some of us managed to crawl out years ago and there's no way in any kind of hell we're going back in." Yes, you will seem like an asshole to total strangers, but they brought this mindless drivel into the world, probably costing you valuable brain cells as you tried to make sense of it, and some things are worth being elitist about. |