Portland on a Sunday

[lunaticsol]

I got in an argument turned conversation yesterday with a few flag burners, and some really pissed off dude (angry about the burning flag). Sadly out of the lot of them (them also includes the general portland crowd) I had way more respect for the beligerant redneck guy then the rest of them combined. Worse, it has a lot to do with my active

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[lunaticsol]

I suppose I was rather harsh on the portlanders. You get fairly stupid people everywhere (and they seem to be no small minority), but the thing that strikes me about portlanders is that they claim to be the scholarly enlightened type etc., etc. but they are really just as short sighted and closed minded as anyone else. For me instead of seeing what they're 'saying' I see a bunch of weaklings who can't actually stand up for anything, so they band together and console each other in their weakness, and run anyone who actually has anything meaningful to say out of town. I think that's the other thing that bugged me a lot about that day (and others) is I saw a lot of people speaking out, but they all think the same way, and they all know they think the same way, so there's really not any courage involved in that, but they tend to think there is. Like a portland cab driver once told me (he was from Colorado I think) "these people are all living in a fantasy." I don't object to what these people are saying, I just expect them to live up to what they say, and understand what their words actually mean.

[lunaticsol]

Or maybe it's just the yuppies and some of the street people, though even a lot of the street people are really cool. They actually tend to be the most free thinkers.

[zander_nao]

I think the cab driver had a really really good point, and your perceptions are very good as well about the lack of courage of a unified mass.