Remarkable!
I toss off a little simile, metaphor, or analogy, or something.
'So, how can there be a "free market ideologue"? It's rather like suggesting that someone who advocates deep breathing of air is an "oxygen ideologue".'
You know, "Walk up the cliff path to the top, face the sea and take some deep breaths."
"Take a few deep breaths before you tackle the rock face."
Breathe deeply, you'll need it over the next 100 meters."
"Watch out! You're hyper-ventilating.
This simple point got full psychological interpretation - make that psychological interpretation. "Full" might induce Brad to try a "full".
Then Keith with splendid flourish took us from carbon dioxide - not an altogether exciting substance - to the tens of thousands at Nuremberg, Billy Graham, and was last seen heading toward the Middle Paleolithic.
All from a simple simile.
Ole!
Harry ----------------------------------------------
Keith wrote:
At 18:22 04/06/2003 -0400, you wrote:Harry Pollard wrote:Arthur,[snip]
People have been exchanging with each other since the beginning of time. They have also been taking care of the unfortunate since the beginning.
These are quite natural things for humans to do
So, how can there be a "free market idealogue"?
It's rather like suggesting that someone who advocates deep breathing of air is an "oxygen ideologue".
I'll give the counter-interpretation of this: The deep breathing "advocate" is *obsessed* with his or her breathing to the extent that they have distorted views about other areas of their world of life.
You can say that again! But it's not the oxygen that does the damage -- it's our old friend CO2. It's not only a greenhouse gas but it can also make you excitable and highly conditionable. Breath deeply for too long -- or sing or shout or chant -- and your bloodstream becomes overstocked with CO2 and giving you an endorphin high.
Without knowing the physiological details, this is something that Hitler practised at the Nuremburg Rallies, or revivalist preachers like Billy Graham ('give 'em plenty of hymn singing') at his huge rallies, or indeed any half-way competent street demo organiser. Early Buddhist missionaries swept through whole continents by getting their audiences to chant -- had them in the palm of their hands after that.
And, of course, this was what early poetry was all about -- rhythmic chanting of long genealogies and acts of prowess by one's ancestors. Easy to transmit from one generation to another. I can still remember the pleasure of chanting the times-table at junior school -- something that Gradgrind learning theorists have expunged from many a school curriculum.
Keith Hudson
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