[DirtyHarryY2K]

I have an old friend from grade school back in the 60’s, he has never grown and matured to a point where logic and critical thought become second nature. Like water flowing down hill he seeks the path of least resistance intellectually speaking.
He is easily derailed by anything that appeals to the lowest common denominator; hollywood fakery (movies and TV shows about fake people with fake jobs, breasts, lives etc...) spends hours playing xbox video games and other useless time wasting hobbies. I wonder sometimes how he lives life in blissful ignorance, knows nothing about politics never votes, reads or even watches the news. How he made it this long is a mystery to me.

After reading this piece by LK I think I understand him a little better...

[little jeremiah]

I can’t say it any better than Burke:

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
— Edmund Burke

[spirited irish]

After reading this piece by LK I think I understand him a little better...

Spirited: We are witnessing the successes of what is really a war of ideas whose ultimate goal is the capture of the mind. The mind is the citadel of the soul; capture the mind, and the soul has been taken as well

[stevio]

Makes me a little envious of his life.