“Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war... (2009)
Context: This is not about classic left-vs-right anymore. (As if that metaphor ever held cogent meaning.) Not when every measure of national health that conservatives ought to care about — from budget balancing to small business startups, to military readiness, to States' Rights, to the economy, to individual liberty, to control over immigration at our borders — does vastly and demonstrably better under democrats. With nearly 100% perfection.
(Fact avoidance is even worse when you encompass ALL of history. Ask today's conservatives which force destroyed more freedom and nearly every competitive market, across 5,000 years. Which foe of liberty and enterprise did Adam Smith despise? Hint: it wasn't "socialism" or "government bureaucrats.")
No. Given their lack of any other tangible accomplishments across the last fifteen years, one must to conclude that the core agenda of Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch and their petroprince backers really is quite simple.
To find out just how far they can push "culture war" toward a repeat of 1861.
“Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
“I don’t want to be a simile anymore, I want to be a metaphor.”
Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 24 (p. 296)
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (13 December 1963)
Context: There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
“There are no rules anymore and if you believe that there are, then you’ll be left out.”
Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality
Erika Jayne interview to Interview Magazine https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/drinks-real-housewife-erika-jayne (2018)
Javad Alizadeh (1953) cartoonist, journalist and humorist
Quoted in "About me" in his 4D Humor website http://javad.8m.com/about.html
Pat Robertson (1930) American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister
http://www.earthrenewal.org/Analysis.htm
“Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.”
Sam Harris book The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Source: 2010s, The Moral Landscape (2010), p. 6
Source: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values