What was that movie? Gattica? It focused on the DNA thing mostly, but
the people's complacency was also shown. Just do what you're told.
I find it funny that when "liberals" want change its called socialism
or pandering to people with hands out. While when neocons call for
change it's fanatical renegade John Wynism (I just made that up).
I don't think either are to far apart on what we all want, but we're
to damn stubborn to say, "hey, I agree with that."
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On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
As one with family from Cuba and some friends remaining, I can assure
you that Jeff W. has no idea about Cuba, considering his comments.
It's
their health care insurance system and outcomes that are better than
ours, not the high tech gadgets and expensive doctors. The Cuban
government, thanks to US intervention and unnecessary embargos, is
oppressive, and the people are suffering from that. Government
oppression has not affected the affordability and quality of
outcomes in
Cuba, which are more favorable than in the US, with insurance and
care
universally available, unlike here.
I was wondering when you would get around to apologizing for tyrants.
The Cuban govt is oppressive because it chooses to be and can be.
The embargo is stupid and should have been lifted long ago, but
many, many other countries have managed to oppress their people
without any US embargo.
I thought of you and your talking points post when I read Camille
Paglia's latest column.
"…affluent middle-class Democrats now seem to be complacently
servile toward authority and automatically believe everything party
leaders tell them. Why? Is it because the new professional class is
a glossy product of generically institutionalized learning?
Independent thought and logical analysis of argument are no longer
taught. Elite education in the U.S. has become a frenetic assembly
line of competitive college application to schools where ideological
brainwashing is so pandemic that it’s invisible. The top schools,
from the Ivy League on down, promote “critical thinking,” which
sounds good but is in fact just a style of rote regurgitation of
hackneyed approved terms (”racism, sexism, homophobia”) when
confronted with any social issue. The Democratic brain has been
marinating so long in those cliches that it’s positively pickled…
By a proportion of something like 10-to-1, negative articles by
conservatives were vastly more detailed, specific and practical
about the proposals than were supportive articles by Democrats,
which often made gestures rather than arguments and brimmed with
emotion and sneers. There was a glaring inability in most Democratic
commentary to think ahead and forecast what would or could be the
actual snarled consequences-- in terms of delays, denial of
services, errors, miscommunications and gross invasions of privacy
-- of a massive single-payer overhaul of the healthcare system in a
nation as large and populous as ours. It was as if Democrats live in
a utopian dream world, divorced from the daily demands and realities
of organization and management. "
Read more. http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/09/09/healthcare/
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