shirt and bumpersticker not big enough

[substitute]

Maybe it could be a series of billboards and skywriters, or sound trucks blaring, or a daily TV spot, but it's necessary. People in my country are arguing about the most ridiculous things right now — particularly in an election year, but just generally — and while we all have this big food fight there's a ghost at the party.

It's the war. Nothing comes before stopping it. Please remember that.

Comments

Re: T. Boone Pickens is the new Crassus

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Most people are assholes. Your point?

Re: T. Boone Pickens is the new Crassus

[bobby isosceles (from livejournal.com)]

Pick one of the following:

- Telling assholes a prescriptive, and correct, statement, will generally lead to disappointment, so don't bother.

- Telling assholes a prescriptive, and correct, statement, will work if you shout louder, harder, more passionately, with better rhetoric and oratory, so try harder.

I don't know which one will work in this case.

Re: T. Boone Pickens is the new Crassus

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

The truth of the statement is a separate matter from the effectiveness of strategies for persuading people of its truth.

Re: T. Boone Pickens is the new Crassus

[substitute.livejournal.com]

That's what I was trying to say! But these guh bluh duh noises came out instead. Thanks.

Re: T. Boone Pickens is the new Crassus

[bobby isosceles (from livejournal.com)]

Guh bluh duh noises can be forgiven. It's an especially numbing-through-irritation election cycle this year. Insert capitalism/capsaicin play on words.