Yesterday afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a recent college graduate. I was surprised that he didn’t realize that marketing fluff had taken him in as much as it had. It all started because his so-called “smart phone” wasn’t working, but my cheap flip-phone was, so I told him the time, and he and I were waiting for the same bus (which was disgustingly late and, even worse, we got on the wrong bus, but that’s another story.) I mentioned that it was not surprising that ...
Updated 07-28-2024 at 04:48 PM by PeterL
Voter fraud has been common in some times and places, but it mostly went out of style many decades ago, Candidate fraud is perhaps even more popular now that it was in the past. It used to be that politicians in the U.S.A. were some of the best people in the country, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, and so on. But that came to an end in the 1820’s and 1830’s, when people like Andy Jackson started doing well in elections. There had been a few populists and demagogues before that, ...
Cynicism 1. An inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism. "Public cynicism about politics" Synonyms: skepticism, doubt, distrust, mistrust, suspicion, disbelief. pessimism, negativity, world-weariness, disenchantment 2. A school of ancient Greek philosophers, the Cynics. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us...glish/cynicism I will confess ...
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