Welcome to the interference fringe. The politics of the edge. Examples and suggestions on what the edges can do to get the center to pay attention.

Things that tick me off, and things to do about it.

One of the biggest "tick me off" subjects is the poor quality of thought that most people bring to things. I could care less if someone buys the lies spewed forth from a used car salesman, that's their lookout, but when that same clueless wonder bellies up to the poll booth, we get what we've gotten for years, screwed. It's not like you can really blame Joe and Jane Sixpack, after all, the powers that be have spent several decades trying to eliminate critical thinking from the schools, the airwaves and the printed word. Can't have the proles learning how to tell when the glitterati are lying to them can we?

However, there are rays of hope in an otherwise dark and dreary thought bubble, with the all-pervasive lies spewed forth by the government and their willing accomplices in the "press", more and more people are responding by simply assuming that whatever is printed on the front page of the daily blurb, or delivered over the airwaves with the nightly pablum, is chock full of bull. Listen to your co-workers, your family and friends. How often do they express disbelief that a given story is true? or that somewhere, they are being lied to in it. This scepticism is refreshing to me.

If you go to your local community college and enroll in a logics 101 type class, you will gain an insite on what the media and the politicians say. In fact, grab the textbook and listen to a speech by some waffling politico or a news anchor's carefully crafted "news" piece. You will be able to check off virtually every fallacy listed in that text book inside of 15 minutes. Heck, make it a family game, sit around the table and listen to the news, or a political speech, and check for the fallacies. In fact, I will put together a webpage "checklist" of them suitable for printing out and using later. Maybe if I can find the time, I will put up an online forum for same. That would be kinda fun.