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Why did the light bulb head immediately remind be of Alan Colmes?
Posted by GarandFan | February 23, 2010 9:16 PM
Posted on February 23, 2010 21:16
Good toon and Quote!
This progressivism shit is an old vision! An old idea! This crap has been around for a hundred years or more with people like BO. They hate how our constitution limits their power. Unfortunately, we are the ones to witness the last remaining bits of out constitution being "progressively" shredded!
Posted by Cowboy | February 23, 2010 9:36 PM
Posted on February 23, 2010 21:36
GF:
I think the hammer should have reminded you of Colmes (on principle), but I think the light bulb looks like Colmes by virtue of the shape of the bulb & the coincidental way that the filament detail John put in makes it look like an alien head turned towards us.
COWBOY:
Progressivism dates back to at least the early 19th century, maybe even the late 18th.
Consider that some of the underlying themes in the Communist Manifesto date back to Leviticus. Marx took a small communal model & extrapolated it to a national government model (bad idea--oversight is lost as "the machine" is moved farther & farther away from the communities).
Isn't it interesting that the argument for big government is based on principles of small communal government (albeit taken grossly out of context)?
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So many "new" ideas are watered-down retreads of "old" ideas, & the general public has largely lost the knowledge & the reasoning ability to tell the difference between "rehash" & "truly new".
Because we are so specialized, most of those who originally had the ability to make such distinctions have their heads buried so deep in their specialties that they have lost it.
The Prussian system is working. Specialize. Get in line. Wait your turn. We'll "fix it" in the next election. Forget the issues, just focus on the candidates. Mind your "own" business--while you're in your own little world, the State is operating a giant machine, & relative to it, we are ants in a colony; we are minions of a State that exists (at least in principle) to serve us.
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Posted on February 24, 2010 05:36
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Posted by Steve M | February 24, 2010 9:03 AM
Posted on February 24, 2010 09:03
Hmmm - maybe should have stuck a sickle-head guy right behind hammerhead? Nahhh.
Terwilliger:
I don't think that the administration is modelling itself after the old Soviet Union - more like Bismarck's "Beemptenstaat" (but instead of the "Iron Chacellor", we have the "Tin President" and his pot-metal cronies).
Posted by Thunderbottom | February 24, 2010 10:14 AM
Posted on February 24, 2010 10:14
Maybe this particular administration isn't modeling itself after the old Soviet system, but the Prussian system got its foothold in the mid 1800s with Horace Mann (& the other 2 schmucks whose names I have a hard time remembering--Harper & Sears, maybe?). That system originated in the 1700s--& it isn't the administration's model because it's already a metastasized, pervading cancer--a VERY useful weapon in their arsenal (& perhaps the original seed for "modern" progressivism).
Sorry if the way I put it confused the two.
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