Comments | branwyn: America's new boyfriend.

branwyn

America's new boyfriend.

Nov 06, 2008 10:29

I originally posted this as a reply on something_srice's journal, but I like it enough to repost here. Flame at will! (No, not at me - at Will. He's over there! :)

"Obama's victory will not solve our problems. In fact, all this support he has received, it just seems to be a perfect example as to what is wrong with our country... and it has nothing to do with ( Read more... )

hope, obama, election, america

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samurai_bastard November 6 2008, 16:17:10 UTC

I agree entirely with the statement, though I think I might be agreeing when applied to a different context, it is friends only so I can't check ( ... )

branwyn November 6 2008, 16:30:39 UTC

It amused me. :)

I think you're absolutely right. The Onion article I posted yesterday, "Nation Finally Shitty Enough to Make Social Progress", is painfully true - akin to Tina Fey making fun of Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric by quoting Sarah almost verbatim.

The sense I got from Srice's post is that he doesn't think Obama is actually any different - he refers to the same train running down the same tracks towards the same wall, just that people are more excited and confident about it. He doesn't elaborate as to why he thinks that.

Anyways, there's something to be said for cycles of social reform and then periods of enjoying the results - just maybe they need to be shorter cycles, or (ideally) simultaneous, parallel processes. As in all things, balance is key.

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quentincoyote November 6 2008, 20:04:30 UTC

Awesome stuff. Consider cross-posting to libmurrals, please? :)

branwyn November 6 2008, 21:34:02 UTC

If you think they'd like it over there, feel free to repost with my blessings. :) (I'm not a member of libmurrals - though, incidentally, how do you set up the LJ-community link? I've never been able to figure that out.)

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quentincoyote November 7 2008, 04:46:36 UTC

Lol.. litterally exactly the same way as for an lj user. just put in the name of the community in the quotes, and it's smart enought to know that that's what it is, instead of a user. ;)

branwyn November 10 2008, 15:28:41 UTC

Hey, look at that! Thanks!

(I've been trying to figure that out for a while now - it's nowhere in the documentation that I've ever been able to find. Apparently the answer was actually TOO easy!)

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