I try not to smile in pictures because I get a goofy ****-eating grin, as shown by my avatar here...
Posted 16 October 2014 - 10:41 PM
I try not to smile in pictures because I get a goofy ****-eating grin, as shown by my avatar here...
Posted 21 October 2014 - 07:49 PM
Where do you sit on the political spectrum, Mark?
Posted 21 October 2014 - 10:53 PM
Posted 21 October 2014 - 11:04 PM
What do you mean exactly by your slogan, "put up or shut up?"
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- Jane Jacobs
Posted 22 October 2014 - 12:05 AM
Posted 22 October 2014 - 10:36 AM
Oxford definition of "Ideology":
NOUNPosted 22 October 2014 - 11:41 AM
Oxford definition of "Ideology":
NOUN1(plural ideologies) A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis ofeconomic or political theory and policyI don't think ideology is directly related to partisanship. If you go into politics, I would expect you to have some sort of political ideology or else I don't know what is guiding you in governance.
I should qualify that as stubborn ideology. Everyone has an ideology, or some system of thinking through their decisions, even if those are subconscious snap-decisions.
For me, the point is that even though everyone has these biases, we work to recognize them and not hold onto them so dearly. It doesn't mean be neutral, it means to have a pretty sober view of how you see the world in relation to how others do, and not work ourselves up into a cutthroat frenzy thinking our way must be the way to do something.
Ideology is directly related, I would even venture, because our political system is based on parties, and those often fall in line with ideological leanings. The competitiveness of the political system bleeds (although the relationship is more complex than I'll get into) into the discourse on ideology. It races to the intellectual bottom where things like free markets are viewed in binary as either good or bad depending on where the person can lie on the political spectrum and drives down thoughtful discussion of what is in reality a really complex (and in my mind beautiful) thing as the free market.
Posted 22 October 2014 - 08:32 PM
Sorry, can you explain your comment on "stubborn ideology"?
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