Over to you Servant, if you wish to please elaborate/ clarify.

Also, the path to understanding is not one of hatred. That is fundamentalist thought. Fundamental thinkers live a life of fear and hatred. Such intolerance fueled racism in our country for centuries. In our country it is the same fundamtal and over-simplified thought process that leads people to call others fag or nigger. Servant, you do tend to oversimplify and paint with a very broad brush. I certainly hope you continue to take Ann’s courses as they will broaden your perspective and make you a much wiser person I’m sure.

As my friend Yoda says, ““Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

Regards,

-Jack

The ‘neo’ versions represent distortions and degradations of the original philosophies and the better contributions they have to offer.

It’s work product like this that makes me keep taking your classes, Professor Ann.

My comments were clearly aimed by my perception, perhaps mistaken, that Jack is a member of the new gang of conservative which lies and distorts and manipulates instead of true principles. I like people who speak the truth. Doesn’t matter anything else as long as they don’t lie. Jack still needs to clear up my perception. Trust but verify said one conservative whose name I’ll never say.

But as I wrote elsewhere I feel like someone has pulled a sack over my head and tied it off and they beat me whenever I try to squirm out of their restraints. I think of those people as conservatives, and I hold them responsible for the current state of affairs in the world. Call em slices of rightie whitie, neofarticons, rethugnicans or neoretentives – I don’t care what they call them in educated circles. They’ve taken over my country and dishonored her forever. Someone has to be accountable for that. I nominate the conservatives to clean up the mess they made and stop spitting on the rest of us and telling us it’s raining.

I’ve been kicked out of better places than this for speaking my mind with the incendiary vocabulary that I use, but this is the only vocabulary I have until I finish this class.

So please excuse my French. And please excuse me for over simplifying Adam Smith. I was trying to characterize the truisms that conservatives subscribe to and not the man himself. I missed terrible. That’s a sin for a Marine sharp shooter. I characterized Adam Smith based on what conservatives attribute to Smith to justify modern economic policies. He’s not responsible for people screwing up his ideas going forward.

I’ll take more care to make my straw man a little more life like next time. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. I am the great and powerful Oz.