Know your warblogger
It's becoming clear that, according to the shameless right and its warbloggers, a "critique" or a "criticism" may mean any reference to statistical uncertainties in a study, or to a methodology unsuited to their personal prejudices.
Referring today to something as being less than certain is, to these folk of faith who are certain (and certainly wrong, needless to say) about everything, tantamount to condemning it as lacking "moral clarity" or somesuch. They have no doubts themselves, they don't need no feelthy education, experience, wisdom or circumspection. They know it all already, without even looking. They're faith based, baby, and it's the one true faith!
The reason they won't look (examine their own prejudices and their own mythology) is because they need to believe their own stories, those of their team and their leaders. The unexamined life and "faith" are best for peace of mind in your warblogging.
If they looked, and comprehended, they'd become complicit in the crime if they continued to blare away in obedient support of their monsters. They know enough to know that would make them monsters themselves - so the bad stories can't be true. And of course there's no need for them to examine the evidence for anything (supposing they had the capability) that they know cannot be, must not be, true.
Idiots like George Bush and monsters like Dick Cheney, for as long as they've been in positions of power to deliver what their gang wants (contemporary example, a consumingly excessive American lifestyle with no regrets and no comprehension) have always had hirelings and hangers on to bury the corpses for them in return for a share of the spoils.
Cue the mighty warbloggers.
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This piece dedicated to Tim Blair, Doctor Horsefeathers, LGF, and those even lesser warbloggers who shall remain unmentioned here, and beneath contempt.
Referring today to something as being less than certain is, to these folk of faith who are certain (and certainly wrong, needless to say) about everything, tantamount to condemning it as lacking "moral clarity" or somesuch. They have no doubts themselves, they don't need no feelthy education, experience, wisdom or circumspection. They know it all already, without even looking. They're faith based, baby, and it's the one true faith!
The reason they won't look (examine their own prejudices and their own mythology) is because they need to believe their own stories, those of their team and their leaders. The unexamined life and "faith" are best for peace of mind in your warblogging.
If they looked, and comprehended, they'd become complicit in the crime if they continued to blare away in obedient support of their monsters. They know enough to know that would make them monsters themselves - so the bad stories can't be true. And of course there's no need for them to examine the evidence for anything (supposing they had the capability) that they know cannot be, must not be, true.
Idiots like George Bush and monsters like Dick Cheney, for as long as they've been in positions of power to deliver what their gang wants (contemporary example, a consumingly excessive American lifestyle with no regrets and no comprehension) have always had hirelings and hangers on to bury the corpses for them in return for a share of the spoils.
Cue the mighty warbloggers.
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This piece dedicated to Tim Blair, Doctor Horsefeathers, LGF, and those even lesser warbloggers who shall remain unmentioned here, and beneath contempt.
posted by nort at 9:34 PM
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