but not to rid of others just for the sake of comfort and fulfilling one's ambitions and desires.
Yuyutsu,
Either I was just unlucky or maybe I take more notice than others but my personal experiences are that Labor/Left supporters are generally far more greedy than any other group. Hence the powers the unions got to after they did good work in the early day.
That doesn't imply that all Labor supporters are like that, only the majority !

This blow-in bozo is still mis-spelling ‘Labor’. He needs to ‘Labour’ more to overcome his spelling and his English in general: his writing resembles a shopping list.

Random appears to be unaccustomed to people disagreeing with him, which makes his childish rantings even more incoherent. He is keen on “education”, but does not appear to have any himself - particularly in English expression. He doesn't know the difference between ‘education’ and ‘wisdom’. He doesn't know that the standard of what he thinks is education has been plummeting for years. He doesn't know much at all.

Education can mean anything from actually learning useful skills to being brainwashed into believing the garbage taught to you: evidenced in the form of junk degrees and woke no-hopers coming out of modern universities.

As for Random's libertarian yabber - well, he fails again. Libertarians are allergic to all but the faintest government touch. He is totally bereft of any useful education; he is a spoiled brat; he has insulted his host (comments about a “crap” site); he is a naif trying out his nonsense, and he will soon disappear. Meanwhile, he has stretched my boredom tolerance to its limit.

I generally sway more towards a conservative point of view, because I find myself more opposed to the ideology of woke progressives, but I have a few issues with conservatives as well on a few issues they support.

I think my political philosophy is neither left or right, (not with these morons anyway) but better defined as 'the war on stupid'.

"Education can mean anything from actually learning useful skills to being brainwashed into believing the garbage taught to you: evidenced in the form of junk degrees and woke no-hopers coming out of modern universities."

- Said it better than I could ttbn.
I have doubts about whether intellectuals actually have any more common sense than anyone else, even after years of extra training and study.

'the war on stupid '
Armchair Critic,
Since stupidity is now actually taught. it has overtaken ignorance & it will be one hell of a task to slow that trend & get back on track. We now have intelligent people whose God-given ability to think has been successfully hijacked into reverse yet they & the many unfortunate with very little grey matter to start with make up the majority in the by them much hyped Democracies.
This Nation got caught up in that whirlwind during the Whitlam years & went full steam ahead since.
We must find a way to harness common sense asap ! A NMNS is the only hope at this stage.

Hi AC,

"I (AC) have doubts about whether intellectuals actually have any more common sense than anyone else,"

I doubt they would. Have to define "common sense"; The ability to apply rational and sound judgement when confronted with an everyday problem. A doctor has great ability in medicine, but most likely totally useless as a plumber. A burst water pipe in the doctors front yard would tell him to turn off the valve at the meter, common sense, should he try instead to wrap a blanket around the burst pipe, that's lacking common sense, as there are easily foreseeable ramification with that action. A plumber can repair the leak, that's ability. Common sense is separate from ability in a specialised field. Although most educated people can rationalise a problem better in general, than an uneducated person can. Most of use lose common sense when we allow emotions to get in the way, like some old bloke being conned repeatedly by a "femme fatale" on the internet.

Then there are those who think there is some noble virtue in their own dumbness, and in the dumbness in those like themselves. They hate educated people with ability, being something they lack.

Posted by Paul1405, Saturday, 11 May 2024 5:11:55 PM
Then there are those who think there is some noble virtue in their own dumbness, and in the dumbness in those like themselves. They hate educated people with ability, being something they lack.

Very well said. That is the problem here, with most of the RW posters.