Comments on: Bumper Sticker Stupidity http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2003/06/02/bumper-sticker-stupidity/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Frank http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2003/06/02/bumper-sticker-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-37652 Frank Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:19:42 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/test.php/2003/bumper-sticker-stupidity/#comment-37652 I wonder if this isn't a tendency of mass democracy since the average person isn't capable of and doesn't have time for a complicated discussion. Also, slogans are useful for obfuscating the real issues by the powers that be. If elected leaders want an open border and (a majority of) American citizens want a regulated border, an open discussion is going to be against their interests. That's not to say that such is inevitable; citizens could work to promote intelligent discourse. From what I've seen, this site seems to do just that. I wonder if this isn’t a tendency of mass democracy since the average person isn’t capable of and doesn’t have time for a complicated discussion.

Also, slogans are useful for obfuscating the real issues by the powers that be. If elected leaders want an open border and (a majority of) American citizens want a regulated border, an open discussion is going to be against their interests.

That’s not to say that such is inevitable; citizens could work to promote intelligent discourse. From what I’ve seen, this site seems to do just that.

]]> By: ES http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2003/06/02/bumper-sticker-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-1485 ES Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:40:59 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/test.php/2003/bumper-sticker-stupidity/#comment-1485 Random acts of Kindness: perhaps you are a little hard on this phrase, in your otherwise understandable eagerness to smash fashionable icons/catchphrases. . Surely it represents, or could represent, the kind of free wheeling libertarianism that is the antithesis of all that is meant by centralisation and state control? Think perhaps in this context of Michael Oakeshott, Hayek in the Road to Serfdom, or George Orwell when he described himself as a 'Tory Anarchist'. Random acts of Kindness: perhaps you are a little hard on this phrase,
in your otherwise understandable eagerness to smash fashionable icons/catchphrases.
. Surely it represents, or could
represent, the kind of free wheeling libertarianism that is the antithesis of all that is meant by
centralisation and state control? Think perhaps in this context of Michael Oakeshott,
Hayek in the Road to Serfdom, or George Orwell when he described himself as a ‘Tory Anarchist’.

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