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Cincydawg

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1904 on: May 26, 2023, 03:36:02 PM »
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1905 on: May 26, 2023, 04:07:12 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on May 26, 2023, 03:35:29 PM
The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled. ~Aldous Huxley
This is depressingly true. 
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1906 on: May 26, 2023, 04:09:51 PM »
Well, how can the greater part of any population be not very intelligent?  As compared to what?  I suppose if you take the bottom 2/3rds and compare it to the top 1/3rd, that is obvious.    And if some government doesn't interfere with my own material comforts and cherished beliefs, what is there to complain about?
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1907 on: May 26, 2023, 04:17:09 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on May 26, 2023, 04:09:51 PM
Well, how can the greater part of any population be not very intelligent?  As compared to what?  I suppose if you take the bottom 2/3rds and compare it to the top 1/3rd, that is obvious.    And if some government doesn't interfere with my own material comforts and cherished beliefs, what is there to complain about?
So, you post a historical quote by a famous author who wrote one of the seminal novels of dystopian fiction, and then when I agree with what the author wrote, you jump down my throat over it? Seems passive-aggressive, CD! :57:

That said, I stand by it. The majority of people in this country would rather be led than try to figure out which way to go on their own. For many of them, they're not intelligent enough to do it. For others, they're just too lazy. It's a lot easier to be told what to do than to have to actually think about things outside your comfort level. Especially when the Kardashians are on. 
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1908 on: May 26, 2023, 04:19:33 PM »
What is the stat on how many hours of TV are watched in the average home?  8?

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« Reply #1909 on: May 26, 2023, 04:22:44 PM »
too many
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« Reply #1910 on: May 27, 2023, 07:37:39 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Operation Anthropoid: Reinhard Heydrich Is Assassinated (1942)
Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the Czechoslovak-British plan to assassinate top Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich, a chief planner of the so-called Final Solution whose ruthlessness and numerous execution orders earned him the nickname "the Hangman of Europe." In May 1942, Heydrich was ambushed by Czech patriots and wounded. A week later, he died from his injuries. This was one of the only successful assassinations of a top-ranking Nazi leader during the war.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1911 on: May 27, 2023, 07:47:06 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on May 26, 2023, 03:35:29 PM
The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled. ~Aldous Huxley
Well what on earth is one to do about it? They keep themselves well hidden - never know what one of those nubbers nutters out there might do
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« Reply #1912 on: May 27, 2023, 07:53:17 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on May 27, 2023, 07:47:06 AM
Well what on earth is one to do about it? They keep themselves well hidden - never know what one of those nubbers nutters out there might do
interfere with their material comforts and cherished beliefs

you know, ................ stir the derned pot!
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« Reply #1913 on: May 28, 2023, 08:21:20 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Battle of Halys (585 BCE)
Also known as the Battle of the Eclipse, the Battle of Halys was fought between the Medes and the Lydians in 585 BCE at the Halys River in what is now Turkey. The final battle of a 15-year war between Alyattes II of Lydia and Cyaxares of Media, the fight ended abruptly due to a total solar eclipse, which was perceived as an omen that the gods wanted the war to end. After a truce, the river was declared the border of the two nations.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1914 on: May 28, 2023, 08:31:42 AM »
I got to know some neighbors fairly well at times in Cincy, and coworkers a bit, I was often surprised how little they would know about "current events".  They'd comment they didn't have time or they found it boring to pay attention to the news.  Their stated reasons for voting for X could be interesting, usually it was the LOTE theory, based often on some rumor being passed around.

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1915 on: May 28, 2023, 08:37:47 AM »
it can be boring
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1916 on: May 28, 2023, 11:13:00 AM »


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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1917 on: May 28, 2023, 01:49:07 PM »
A dime in 1960 was worth about what a dollar is worth today ...
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