http://buchanan.org/blog/2008/06/pjb-return-of-the-censors/

brigit bardot brigade wrote:

"What has caused this reversal of freedom?"

Lotsa causes, but clearly, the population is less rational. You
can lay out a logically consistent post and see mostly insane
rants against it. Look at all the ad hominum.

Most succinctly: Jared Diamond reports that 80%% of global agribusiness
produces just five crops: wheat, corn, rice, soybeans, and cottom. And
I know they do that with massive doses of ag chemicals.

I know further that this gets into the food chain and has a deleterious
effect on childhood mental development. Some of us grow up rational even
with the contaminated and deficient diet, but the majority of the voters
now are not rational.

So, Pat can lay out whatever the logical case is, and it dont matter. We
mite do better to blow off trying to reform the system, and consider how
it will work out, whether we like it or not.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:21:19 -0500, Day Brown daybrown.org>
wrote:

Less rational than when?

David Johnston wrote:

When gov Adlai Stevenson was told he had the "thinking man's vote",
he replied,"That's nice, but I need a majority." I actually dunno
that he would've been better than Ike. But Ike was not elected on
the basis of sound policy proposals. He looked good on TV.

Its instructive to consider that the boomers were the last generation
of kids raised on food grown on "family farms" by what we now call
"organic methods"... and then to look at the innovation in the arts
and sciences that generation produced compared to what came later.

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:17:57 -0500, Day Brown daybrown.org> wrote:

Ike was elected and re-elected because he was a war hero. TV had nothing to
do with it ..

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:17:57 -0500, Day Brown daybrown.org>
wrote:

So far the past is not looking so much more rational.

George Peatty wrote:

He got to be a war hero in the first place because he was photogenic.
Adlai looked like a geek. I had an earful of it; my step father was the
president of the MPLS musician's union, and union bosses and Democratic
politicians often met at the house. There were photos of Democratic
congressmen and senators, eg. Humphrey and Mondale...

David Johnston wrote:

You could, but there is other demographic data to consider. Like the
TV says the national autism rate is 1:155. In my neck of Ozark woods,
which is too steep for agribusiness, its still all family farms, and
raise their kids on backyard veggies, the rate here seems to be 1:4000.
If you...

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:21:04 -0500, Day Brown daybrown.org>
wrote:

David Johnston wrote: