 August 31, 2012 - 4:13pm | At a the Childrens Museum in Boston and one popular area is the minature ethnic neighborhood- the kids love playing in the ethnic grocery store, barber shop and hair salon. This section celebrates Carribean and inner city black heritage, though the kids dont really care about that much they just like playing at adult activities like cutting hair and ringing up groceries at a cash register. Well along come "Mr & Mrs. Getto rats" and the stupid B#$%&* is running her mouth about something in the museums exhibit being prejudice. Unfreaking believable ignorant wretch! I say kick her lousy ass back to Dorchester housing project she crawled out of except I hate to deprive her children of any enrichment they might derive in the museum. Sad. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 August 31, 2012 - 6:15pm | In answer to your question, I don't believe it is curable. I love your new sig line addition. |
August 31, 2012 - 8:02pm | I love your new sig line addition. yeah I like to change it from time to time. The above is a rant because I couldn't say anything at the time that would do or change anything. She reminded me of the pains in the butt I worked with as a nurses aid in a 128 bed nursing home with 50% of the aids from Haiti and another 25% from Africa which left about 15% white among nurses aids (I eventally did a stint as the scheduler and supply order for the facility so those numbers are correct) but anyhow some of the Africans could lift up a napkin on a table and find prejudice. It got real ugly for 6 months and was just rediculous. Then a friend from school got a job and one of these lovely people warned her to be careful around me becuase I drank bats blood for sexual power. Just for record the only thing I might drink for sexual power is a glass of wine before bed but I guess red wine resembles bats blood a little. Good times that was but I dont miss working in a nursing home. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 September 1, 2012 - 1:46am | To answer the question "Is there a cure for ignorance?" The anwer would be yes. Ignorance is a choice and like alcoholism and a host of other curable mental issues that's where the cure begins: with the admittal of the problem and a consequential desire to overcome it. The problem is that most people afflicted with it would rather piss and moan about it while dealing with the consequences than actually do something to better themselves. |
September 1, 2012 - 4:07am | thats the thing that woman will find something wrong with anything and its everyone around her that is wrong I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 September 2, 2012 - 6:28pm | Stereotyping is something that is mostly unavoidable. Unfortunately most people today learn from TV and Hollywood and think that is how the world really is. Unless you live the life you really don't know. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 September 3, 2012 - 5:12pm | Yes, I beliveve the Sathar are working on a cure for ignorance as we speak. You can contact any of their friendly agents for fast and convenient quote today. Void where prohibbited, available for a limited time while supplies last, and some assembly required. |
September 3, 2012 - 5:43pm | Sathar prey on the ignorant, it's so much easier to manipulate their minds. You don't know how bad it hurts biting my tongue not to make that into a political statement... |
 September 4, 2012 - 1:11pm | Ignorance is simply a lack of knowledge. It is easily fixed. The problem comes when people refuse to accept knowledge. This is becoming more and more of a problem since society is refusing the concept of Universal Truths and clinging instead to perspective reality. It does not matter what was done or said, the viewer will interpret what actually happened and what was meant by it. And thus, apply the title of truth to it. That, unfortunately is incurable.  |
 September 4, 2012 - 3:10pm | Ignorance is simply a lack of knowledge. It is easily fixed. The problem comes when people refuse to accept knowledge. This is becoming more and more of a problem since society is refusing the concept of Universal Truths and clinging instead to perspective reality. It does not matter what was done or said, the viewer will interpret what actually happened and what was meant by it. And thus, apply the title of truth to it. That, unfortunately is incurable. Or the phrase "I reject your reallity and substitue my own." In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same. |
September 4, 2012 - 4:19pm | I need to amend something to make a point. Well, add to more than amend. It does not matter what was done or said, the viewer will interpret what actually happened and what was meant by it as defined by their choice of media.
This is the part that irks me more than anything. All I want to do is read or see the news, I don't want somebody telling me how to interpret it. The media needs to get away from the media agenda and get ack to a news reporting agenda. That, and playing the candidates' (that's plural of candidate) ads according to what was paid, rather than playing the one ad they favor free of charge around the clock. |
September 5, 2012 - 1:23pm | Good point Shadow. I think that Jedions run in is typical these days. I don't want to say that the majority of people today are weak willed and and weak minded, (the jedi mind trick would have automatic success 99% of the time!) but it seems to be a close margin. Society is so soft, spoilt and lazy that nobody wants to take the time or energy to think for themselves. More hard evidence of entropy (a doctrine of inevitable social decline and degeneration). This is one reason that I can't understand the wholesale theory of evolution. We (society) can't survive long enough to evolve.  |
September 5, 2012 - 2:57pm | Media has agendas? WOW next you're going to tell me the Spanish-American War and a few other wars were not accurately reported in the media. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
September 5, 2012 - 5:10pm | Well... I wouldn't really know if the "media" had a bias during the Spanish American War but then the media at that time was mostly newspapers which have traditionally been fairly conservative. On the other hand the newspaper empire of William Randolph Hearst certainly towed the company line established by the man at the top and he did not scrupple to use his empire to push his will. As to whether the modern media is biased or has an agenda I can give one very prescient example in light of the fact that North Korea has run missile tests and the fear is that they are using their nuclear reactor to build a bomb. Back when Clinton was president and I was a college student with a subscription to the Jerusalem Post International, Clinton was pushing through a deal to help open up North Koreah by transfering nuclear reactor technology and helping them build it (that would be the same reactor its feared that they are using to gain the bomb) and all the media in the US was bending over backwards to not report on things that the Jerusalem Post was reporting on like a North Korean infiltration sub getting hung up in the nets of South Korean fishing boats just outside a major harbor and being pulled into port and when it was openned no one was on board ie they had gotten out with frog gear of which a copious amount of scuba gear was discovered on board. Clinton was pronouncing that they would never be able to build a bomb with this reactor and how this was going to help open up the North Koreans to western influence and all the experts on nuclear reactors said oh yes they could use this reactor to do just that. Here we are 2 decades latter with a potentially nuclear armed rogue state that is testing missiles that could hit the United States? The media didn't report anything that would rock the boat for Clinton. Just sad. The South Koreans are under no illusion about the North. They've hollowed out whole mountains and stockpiled enough weapons to arm every single South Korean, man woman and child. The war plan for a new war with the North calls for South Korea to hold out for 48 hours till B52 show up form Taiwan and turn south Korea into an island- that aint no BS either and you know that that kind of bombing isn't locked in to a war plan without explicit consent from the South Korean government. Another time there was reported in the JP an incident where a Palestinian had slipped into an army encampment and into a tent of Ireali soldiers and butchered all of them with a machete (i think it was four of them) something that if it had been American soldiers we would have been up in arms over but that week in the TV news and in the Boston newspapers there was a steady thread of Isreal bashing and Isreal must bend BS- it was disgusting to watch. So yeah in general people in the US like to bash the media as having an agenda or bias but I've observed it first hand simply because on a whim I happen to subscribe to an international newspaper because I wanted to test the "urban myth" of media bias and agenda. So yeah I beleive it not because, I'm conservative, support capitol punishment, would love to see abortion ended and quite unfortunately have to vote for Republican candidates for office because they are usually the only credible non democrat candidate that has a prayer of winning in MA; No I believe in the bias and agenda of the media because I tested the theory and found it held water and all it cost me was a year subscription to a once a week newspaper; albeit one with a decide Jewish bias but one that was refreshing to read after years of exposure to American media. Socrates said, "An unexamined life is not worth living." I have ever endeavored to test my own beliefs and not blindly follow the pack- and when I hear someone bashing a position thats when I like to scrutinize the most especially if the basher is someon I tend to agree with because ridicule is the last defense for when you cant give an intelligent answer for the why of your position. (Incidently, I love when some one resorts to name calling because it reveals how weak their position is and its surprising how often that happens). I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
September 6, 2012 - 4:02am | Yes the media was extremely bias in yesteryear and usually reported more to sell papers then to get it right. Look up Yellow Journalism. Today instead of selling papers it is "Get more viewers and more views" Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
September 7, 2012 - 2:14pm | In the beginning of our nations history (even in our colonial history), every Tom, Dick, and Harry ran a news paper in every town, village and burg. Society was a beautiful thing back then. People spent a lot of time discussing and debating their personal views on just about any topic. Politics was a top choice. And negative campaign adds are nothing new. As an example, Alexander Hamilton was named a bastard child and his mother was insinuated to have been a whore. Everyone then had their own ideas about the direction that this country should take. The only difference is that back then gap that formed between ideological positions was relatively small. Today our ideologies have traveled so far away from our original starting point that the gaps are staggering. The wildest liberal ideology from 1800 would be deemed too staunchly conservative today that libertarians would be horrified by it. Lets look at it like this; the rift between ideological views (bias) would be like a first generation Eorna. Todays political ideologies have grown so rampant that it it would be like the Eorna that are found in the volturnis mods. The Spanish American War was one of our first, biggest polarizing international events and is thus the easiest place to detect early bias. Thus, the birth of Yellow Journalism. The lesson? People suck? Maybe we should all be w00t-licates. |
