| Geminex |
11-02-2009 07:16 PM |
You know... reading that, reading them talk about "liberal bias" reminds me of something.
Specifically, Reg Shoe, appearing in "The Night Watch" by Terry Pratchett. If you recall (or, even if you don't), Reg has embraced the concept of being a "Revolutionary". He's identified the enemy, identified himself and is under the impression that he's part of an ongoing struggle to defeat this enemy. Vimes, on the other hand, recognizes that though he seems himself caught in a revolutionary struggle, he's not struggling. And that in turn is because the enemy he's identified is actually far more concerned with the real revolutionaries, the ones who don't wear sashes and yell out slogans, but the ones who plan and coordinate and have little meetings where everythign is assessed. Conservapedia is Reg Shoe. They see "liberals" as a threat, see themselves as a key component of a struggle against this threat. But they're delusional. Because they're not going to have an impact, this is just them putting on a website what everybody knows. It's comforting to them, I suppose, but I won't have an impact. They're practically masturbating to their own values, and realizing this significantly decreases the desire to set the site on fire.
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