tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post6796202596026788279..comments2024-03-27T22:25:44.006-05:00Comments on Ennyman's Territory: The Lonely AmericanEd Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-45455464677688144492009-03-01T13:53:00.000-06:002009-03-01T13:53:00.000-06:00Welcome back.I suppose I could have chosen one of ...Welcome back.<BR/><BR/>I suppose I could have chosen one of the alternate essays on Packard's book. I was surprised at how little there was. His book The Hidden Persuaders has probably had a longer shelf life, but this one certainly made an impact.<BR/><BR/>As for the application by brothers Judd, I just found it amusing. They did do a good job of summing up some of the book's premises, which I think are valid. I personally do not believe Red States or Blue States have a corner on the Loneliness market.Ed Newmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-4784925514983911402009-03-01T09:48:00.000-06:002009-03-01T09:48:00.000-06:00>>>>>>Bush carried WAY more squa...>>>>>>Bush carried WAY more square miles than Gore did. Wow!<BR/><BR/>Bush DID carry way more square miles, nation-wide, while actually getting less votes than Gore...<BR/>Which tells us, obviously, that on the average, Bush votes lived way farther apart from each other than Gore voters.<BR/>What a amazing twist of logic to come to the conclusion that these Bush voters were more "well-socialized" and "integrated parts of the community" than the Gore voters.<BR/>And what's even more amazing, is when Obama ran for president 8 years later, these same two-faced right-wingers screamed "socialist" and "communist" at him, as if those are terrible things that the American people should be AGAINST.<BR/>It's as weirdly grotesque as seeing Linda Blair's head twist around a full 360 degrees in the movie "The Exorcist" -- but this is in real life.LEWagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12438484007896207869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-43551733245771023772009-03-01T09:00:00.000-06:002009-03-01T09:00:00.000-06:00According to the Brothers Judd, the rootless, drif...According to the Brothers Judd, the rootless, drifting, and valueless social misfits in the 6 points below were supposed to have been the Gore voters? <BR/>Hmmmm. The Bush administration sure turned out to be a fine example of traditional, moral, moored-in-values behavior, didn't it? <BR/>That review also refers to something called "Al Gore's attempted electoral coup". <BR/>It posted a county by county map, showing just small little blue areas compared to huge red areas -- and even had graphs showing square miles of counties, populations of counties, and growth of counties, that Gore and Bush won.<BR/>I'd like to hear an explantion of how anything in any of that, showed in ANY way, an "attempted electoral coup" on Gore's part.<BR/>Bush carried WAY more square miles than Gore did. Wow!<BR/>No mention whatsoever that Gore won the popular vote THROUGHOUT the country, by a half a million votes, or that the Republican-appointed majority of the US Supreme Court stopped the recount in Florida, to make SURE that Gore didn't win, there. <BR/>BAH! What insulting propaganda. Yes, there WAS a electoral coup in America in 2000. It was committed by the Republicans. <BR/>It resulted in the death of huge numbers of innocent people in a war started on lies, and a world-wide economic crash, based on the Bush administration's refusal to enforce any values or ethics at all in the banking and insurance industries' wealth-to-the-top Ponzi schemes. <BR/>I showed my commitment to social values by voting AGAINST the war criminal and corporate crook. <BR/><BR/>"(1) They tend to "do things they wouldn't normally do back home" due to a "lessened concern about social consequences and the lessened awareness of social disapproval." They are simply<BR/>not emotionally, politically, or morally invested in their temporary communities.<BR/>(2)They tend to be less well socialized, becoming either isolated or instantly and artificially gregarious. They just aren't an integrated part of the community.<BR/>(3)The likelihood that they will be moving on leads them to take a "peculiar approach to<BR/>establishing and finishing a home." They don't put down lasting roots in the community.<BR/>(4) They manifest an "indifference to local happenings and to social life.<BR/>(5) They develop an "uncertain sense of self." (see his quote above.)<BR/>(6) Their values are loosed from any moorings, just as they themselves have been."LEWagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12438484007896207869noreply@blogger.com