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This requires a little creative imagination but the idea is this:
Suppose we saw the whole society divided up and lets suppose to different islands of their own. To one island is everyone we might think of as liberal, left-leaning, types. Here we may see a population made of elite wealthy white liberals, the socially liberal types, atheists, homosexuals, C4, BBC and probably most people we know in media, celebrities, global warming environmentalists, pro-abortion types, feminists, jews, multicultural advocates, lennonists, communist/socialists. Okay, you get the idea. The other island is made of those we think of as 'right-wing', conservative, maybe religious, types. This might be made up of traditionalist types, wealthy old money, church-goers, BNP people, anti-abortion types, creationists, accountants. You get the idea. Now suppose all things are equal on these islands to start. Just suppose everyone is more or less proportional in their own demographics to start and basically 'evenly matched' across their boards to start. Which society is self-sustaining? Which society is going to be able to survive on its own and say successfully? If you ask me it's an easy prediction - Conservative Island is self-sustaining grows and progresses and even if they lacked exciting tourism they would all live just fine. 'Left Wing Island' degenerates and eventually into chaos and ultimately has to become a brutal dictatorship and orwellian nightmare just to keep from total savagery and decay. What do you think? Thoughts, comments, suggestions? |
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"atheists"
How Dare you put us Wise Men in your Stinking pot vision. Last edited by arista; 23-05-2010 at 12:39 PM. |
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OG(den)
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Too glam to give a damn
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C4 would try and film the thing and then make it into a tv show.
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Altar Ego
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'thread stopper'
Bliss. |
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Sure but they would have to stay on their own left island as they are flaming left-loving antichristian liberals.
I think they would do an amazing job as propagandists assuring everyone that 'Leftonians' were just so superior and advanced in 'special knowledge' while portraying 'Rightians' as bigots, racists, evil christians etc. |
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Nothing in excess
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The right-wingers would just instantly outsource their jobs to left-wing island and then have their own banking crisis. They would have nothing worthwhile to export and no tourist industry because the place is so fucking boring.
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No matter that they act like senile 12-year-olds on the Today programme website - smoking illegal fags to look tough and cool. No matter that Amis coins truly abominable terms like 'the age of horrorism' and when criticised tells people to 'fuck off'. Surely we all chuckle at the strenuous ennui of his salon drawl. Didn't he once accidentally sneer his face off? - Chris Morris - The Absurd World of Martin Amis |
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Nothing in excess
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Anyway, I think it's better we don't stereotype the two. Some creative right-wingers...
Frank Zappa Vincent Gallo Igor Stravinsky Richard Wagner Charles Saatchi And left-wing philistines/bores/control freaks... Robert Mugabe George Galloway Jean Jacques Rousseau Any trade unionist you care to mention As for insinuating most left-of-centre types are white. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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No matter that they act like senile 12-year-olds on the Today programme website - smoking illegal fags to look tough and cool. No matter that Amis coins truly abominable terms like 'the age of horrorism' and when criticised tells people to 'fuck off'. Surely we all chuckle at the strenuous ennui of his salon drawl. Didn't he once accidentally sneer his face off? - Chris Morris - The Absurd World of Martin Amis Last edited by BB_Eye; 23-05-2010 at 05:57 PM. |
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Account Vacant
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Nothing in excess
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Maybe these ones...
Melanie Phillips ![]() yeah I didn't know she could smile either Peter Hitchens ![]() Milton Friedman ![]() Henry Kissinger ![]() Benjamin Disraeli ![]() Michael Howard ![]() Edwina Currie ![]()
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No matter that they act like senile 12-year-olds on the Today programme website - smoking illegal fags to look tough and cool. No matter that Amis coins truly abominable terms like 'the age of horrorism' and when criticised tells people to 'fuck off'. Surely we all chuckle at the strenuous ennui of his salon drawl. Didn't he once accidentally sneer his face off? - Chris Morris - The Absurd World of Martin Amis |
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They would not instantly outsource their jobs as 'Outsourcing' is something most conservative types get extremely upset about and its one of the reasons they get called 'racists' and actually nothing seems to aggravate the conservative type of 'grassroots' people than Outsourcing. Conservative Island would be less likely to be an 'exporting' nation I agree. They would tend to be more 'protectionist' or critically you might even say 'isolationists' which has its own risks but its own benefits too. |
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