From: nospam@example.net
On Sun, 4 Feb 2024, oldernow wrote:
> On 2024-02-03, D wrote:
>
>>> Anyone else in these parts ever watch "Real Coffee With
>>> Scott Adams" on YouTube?
>> ...
>> Highly recommended in case you're not politically to the
>> left in which case it could be a bit upsetting. ;)
>
> I've the displeasure of having a high school friend with whom I've
> exchanged regular snail mail and then email with since 1982 who was
> a Dilbert fanatic "back in the day", but is too liberal to handle
> Adams' more recent political opinions. Such a shame. Boggles my mind,
> really. But then so does most of what rabid liberals "think".
>
> And I was actually left *leaning* back in the 1990s as a sort
> of reaction to going far right in the "born again Christian
> fundamentalist" sense for some four years starting my senior year
> of high school. It somehow took me a while to get a grip on the
> notion of "moderation"....
This is very fascinating. Looking at my parents, they had friends who were
socialist and they were conservative, and they could have a good time
together and agree not to talk politics if things got a bit heated.
I have 1 or 2 acquaintances who are left-leaning and we have that
relationship. But my general feeling among the younger generation is that
this is very uncommon.
In terms of enjoying the creative output of someone you disagree with, I
saw a fine sample of self-destructive thinking here in eastern europe
where I live.
The local concert house decided to ban all russian classical composers due
to the war in Ukraine. I can for the life of me not understand that at
all. Is the next steps to burn all Dostoyevsky books? Wagner didn't like
jews, so what?
1. I refuse to judge historical people by todays standards and
2. The music is still great.
Sigh, seems like sometimes we are just barbarians in nicer clothing and
with better technology. =(
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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