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jerwin wrote:

Pariah wrote:

I see this type of remark quite alot the last few years and it makes me wonder. Has our materialism lead us to such a poverty stricken world view that we have come to believe no one believes anything anymore?
Hate someone for the beliefs they declare to hold, not the greed you hope is their real motivation.

Is it really materialism?

A frequent liberal critique of the Soviet Union used to be that their scientific output was filtered by an ideological bias-- as if the establishment first checked whether the scientist was a good communist, and whether the experimental results were consistent with Marxist thought. (I relieved much boredom wandering the stacks of my college library, so please forgive me if the argument seems shallow.) It seems to me that a materialist would be concerned fist and foremost with the results themselves, and not any imaginary ideological defects that might have biased these results.

I was using the term "materialism" in the consumerist, "oh teh shiney" way. Not the philosophical way.

But I see this denial as a real problem in the modern world.
At the root of it is the ridiculous idea that inside every wack job is a perfectly reasonable person just using manipulation to get ahead.

Farmerkev wrote:

This is one of those times I wish I were British. They have such wonderful names to call people like this, prat, burke. All we ami's have is the tired old stupid son of a bitch.

Pillock is one of my personal favourites...if you emphasise the P sound it spits out of your mouth pretty well