Soulless? (Even in the figurative sense?)
Well thanks for showing me this kind of respect, however I don't speak for this country.
Ask yourself the question I ask myself daily:
Am I doing enough?
Tiassa be considerate, I live in this country, I love this nation, I totally disagree with the present governments actions.
Nonetheless, people--including you and I--endorse the present government's actions. Despite our loss at the ballot box (I voted for Hegelin in deference to a similar concept as you have expressed) we still pay taxes, still participate in the economic and supporting processes that fuel the machinery of our sparkling hegemony.
BTW, that little note was written by A Russian woman, Ayn Rand!!.
Which little note? Reality is existence? She's presumptuous. That cannot be proven objectively.
*Dr. Frank R. Wallace, Neo-Tech Publishing.
I wanted to point out that I cannot imagine being a non-emotional, soulless freak as the Wallace quote asserts. Certes, there's a bad side to poetry, but there's a bad side to breathing, also.
Poetry at its best aspires to use language to express ideas that transcend standard prosaic expression.
As such, I would criticize Dr. Wallace and his supporters for an utter lack of vision, human sympathy, and emotional relevance. It may be well asserted that emotions are detrimental, but why be so ashamed of being human?
As for the American news media, well I really dont get much out of CNN, or ABC, or anyother they mostly give news about Hollywood, I don't care to see which movie star is getting married, or which one is getting laid by whom or whatever. This is what is been going on lately. Have you noticed?
I know. It took the horrible, biased Socialists to advise me that a gang-rape in New York, the press coverage of which I remember fairly well, has the new twist of knowing that the minority youths sentenced for the crime were innocent. Hell, you'd think that would be CNN's headline of the day--multiple juveniles convicted on shaky evidence of a crime they did not commit while the state refuses to vacate the conviction despite having a confession from the real perp and a DNA match to the confession. But no, I hear about it from the World Socialist Website.
Its amazing; Christiane Amanpour did a spot for Aaron Brown on CNN the other night about Islamic women. She can convey better and more relevant information in ... twenty seconds, say ... than I can get from days of AP, Reuters, or American TV-news sources. (Aaron ought to send her something more substantial than a fruit basket for giving his show the illusion of quality. As good as Christiane Amanpour is, though, nothing can really save CNN.)
Question: If you witness something that defies your
expression, does that mean that nothing has happened?
It was like this light ... I mean, this heat, no ... it didn't burn but ....
Does a lack of corresponding vocabulary really mean that nothing has happened?
Re: the title of the topic--Whoops. I forgot, soulless doesn't work as a word. It's too poetic when taken figuratively, and since many believe there is no soul I can hardly stand on its existence objectively, can I? Thus, the literal is out of the question. Oh well, I can take comfort in the fact that while you may be a soulless mofo, it doesn't bother you.
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Edit: I would advise Dr. Wallace to tell it to Whitman, or cummings, or maybe Rumi.)
thanx,
Tiassa