tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post154460068924345516..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Expectations: Baseball and EverythingAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-65569431999956864282013-09-01T01:20:41.798-04:002013-09-01T01:20:41.798-04:00Imagine you are a typical member of the political ...Imagine you are a typical member of the political class.<br /><br />You believe that Muslims are merely progressives who dress in funny clothes, unlike those horrible Christians who burn black children on their altars and drink the blood of transexuals.<br /><br />One day, you are in power, and you notice some Muslims have failed to get the message of how good and nice Muslims are. You embrace a Muslim preacher as prince of moderate Islam, and then, alas, he so seriously misunderstands Islam that you put him on the drone operator's kill-on-sight list.<br /><br />You add a rapidly increasing number of misunderstanders of Islam to the kill-on-sight list, but, strange to say, they keep right on misunderstanding Islam. What, you ask, do you need to do get Muslims to rightly understand Islam, understand it the way you do?<br /><br />You don't notice that your policy is morphing into "Invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to ... progressivism"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-79334032098994523902013-08-31T21:48:48.200-04:002013-08-31T21:48:48.200-04:00William. Fair point.William. Fair point.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-68287270164960040502013-08-31T21:31:23.188-04:002013-08-31T21:31:23.188-04:00You wrote "this tells me that if we sat in th...You wrote "this tells me that if we sat in their seats we would likely favor intervention as well."<br /><br />Maybe, but succeeding in politics selects for a different personality type than writing, reading, or commenting on weblogs, and provides some different incentives as well. If you looked only at the way that self-made zillionaires behave, you might arrive at a different conclusion about how wealth changes people than if you broadened the sample to include people with other sources of wealth, such as heirs and lottery winners. William Newmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14336821309402794016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-16966177804807961752013-08-31T21:20:50.260-04:002013-08-31T21:20:50.260-04:00It is easy to believe your own press releases. We...It is easy to believe your own press releases. We advertise <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psyched/200807/advertising-is-magic" rel="nofollow">"magic"</a>. The most recent fighter is infinitely better than the old ones. Doing war games on computer is so much better than moving figures on a board that we have to be able to win.<br /><br />"For heathen heart that puts her trust<br />In reeking tube and iron shard—<br />All valiant dust that builds on dust,<br />And guarding calls not Thee to guard.<br />For frantic boast and foolish word,<br />Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!"jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com