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loudsue

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40. On the third link there is an interesting rightwing/liberal comparison:
Tue Dec 4, 2012, 11:55 AM
Dec 2012

The author is evidently someone who watched Tim Russert. Then he goes on to say how we can only think of so many people as human. My theory is that the author tends to be more rightwing than liberal, due to looking at his logic:

The Monkeysphere is the group of people who each of us, using our monkeyish brains, are able to conceptualize as people. If the monkey scientists are monkey right, it's physically impossible for this to be a number much larger than 150.

Most of us do not have room in our Monkeysphere for our friendly neighborhood sanitation worker. So, we don't think of him as a person. We think of him as The Thing That Makes The Trash Go Away.

And even if you happen to know and like your particular garbage man, at one point or another we all have limits to our sphere of monkey concern. It's the way our brains are built. We each have a certain circle of people who we think of as people, usually our own friends and family and neighbors, and then maybe some classmates or coworkers or church or suicide cult.

Those who exist outside that core group of a few dozen people are not people to us. They're sort of one-dimensional bit characters."


There is a REASON liberals are called "tree huggers" by the evil rightwing. We ARE able to comprehend the value of all living things, and DO NOT tend to dehumanize the garbage man or anyone else (except wingnuts, of course). And we're smarter... we tend to look beyond our noses when we're looking at the repercussions of legislation we're proposing.

It's interesting that, once again, humanity has two different species on earth at the same time...the Neanderthal rightwingers, and the more evolved liberals. And, truly, if we don't learn to live together in an over-crowded earth, then we risk being the one that is "dehumanized". Rightwingers try to legislate dehumanizing people.


Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html#ixzz2E69NGmWp

k&r nt steve2470 Dec 2012 #1
I get weird looks when people find out I belong to the ACLU. Always a WTF moment for me. Like RKP5637 Dec 2012 #2
Side effect of us slipping into the dark ages Hydra Dec 2012 #7
Yep, I often think back about the same, and here they are, making it just just like "them" they RKP5637 Dec 2012 #21
Kick to find it later n/t hootinholler Dec 2012 #3
Believe it or not, in this day and age, Xipe Totec Dec 2012 #4
Du rec. Nt xchrom Dec 2012 #5
Unfortunately, many Americans think with their emotions and those emotions are 70 percent erroneous. BlueJazz Dec 2012 #6
100% spot on. DireStrike Dec 2012 #8
Oh, this rings a bell. nt msanthrope Dec 2012 #9
K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2012 #10
I went through my grandfather's drawers and found out he was a member of the Socialist Party -LOL LeftInTX Dec 2012 #11
They Really Believe they are the Majority.. redstatebluegirl Dec 2012 #12
You think that is bad. SkyIsGrey Dec 2012 #13
Five years ago I was having a discussion at Thanksgiving with my family on how I thought Cleita Dec 2012 #14
No wonder some people hate holiday gatherings. n/t cherokeeprogressive Dec 2012 #41
Went through four years of college in a so called Christian school being called a socialist. I jwirr Dec 2012 #15
Everyone in the MILITARY, using the taxpayer subsidized PX and TRICARE are SOCIALISTS! nt TheBlackAdder Dec 2012 #16
America As A Whole, And 1ProudAtheist Dec 2012 #17
It's worse than you say. I did look for the proper definitions in Google, and those bastards jtuck004 Dec 2012 #24
Great article. silverweb Dec 2012 #18
State socialism (Communism) can only work small scale of no more than 150 people ErikJ Dec 2012 #19
Do you have any evidence to support that claim? white_wolf Dec 2012 #22
Hutterites, Dunbar's Number =150 ErikJ Dec 2012 #23
what do hutterites have to do with "state socialism"? HiPointDem Dec 2012 #27
I think he is making the mistake that for "state socialism" to work it would be based on altruism. white_wolf Dec 2012 #28
true. but my point was 'what is the "state" part of hutterites'? HiPointDem Dec 2012 #29
They are small "communist" group and their max size is 150 ErikJ Dec 2012 #30
what is the 'state' in their 'state socialism'? HiPointDem Dec 2012 #31
I was referring to pure definition ErikJ Dec 2012 #34
by the "state apparatus". what is the state apparatus of the hutterites? for that matter, HiPointDem Dec 2012 #35
The author claims that isnt socialism ErikJ Dec 2012 #38
That is state ownership and management of the means of production. The author HiPointDem Dec 2012 #39
On the third link there is an interesting rightwing/liberal comparison: loudsue Dec 2012 #40
People think my sweater is an awkward moment. RUMMYisFROSTED Dec 2012 #20
I read the article. I wish the author's friend had a blog, sounds like it would be instructive. jtuck004 Dec 2012 #25
If you can, catch the old movie "Son of Kong" 1933. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2012 #26
lol. the sailors didn't know how to run the ship once the captains disappeared. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #32
I just tell people I'm a Socialist, a Liberal and a Progressive, and then talk right through... Systematic Chaos Dec 2012 #33
I had a kid in my class tell me socialism means you have to give your shirt away-- Starry Messenger Dec 2012 #36
Christianity: "And from him who takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt either." HiPointDem Dec 2012 #37
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