Blah, Blah, Blah

 

Long talk is wrong talk. Teachers and intellectuals need to be clear, exact, and concise. They need to come immediately, directly, and powerfully to the point.

Educators and philosophers shouldn’t waste people’s valuable time and effort with their tedious, empty, long-winded blather. And they especially shouldn’t fool, seduce, or brainwash their innocent victims with droning or ranting. Mesmerizing and indoctrinating defenseless masses or naive students with overlong, tiresome, meandering nonsense is wrong.

If a person has something to say, he should say it. Verbosity is evil. Loquaciousness harms us the listener and reader.

People need to learn to make their point – assuming they have one, which is rare – and then shut the hell up. If somebody can’t say what they want to say quickly, strongly, and right on the money, then they’re likely spouting bullshit. 

Almost any lengthy commentary is an attempt to brainwash – whether the speaker or writer fully realizes it or not. He’s tricking the innocent listener or reader while secretly trying to get the mark to join his stupid, evil cult.

Once a person is fooled into slogging thru some large pile of rubbish, he’s trapped. The dreadful material is now part of him – because he’s committed so much of his valuable time, energy, and life to it. To deny the truth and importance of this recent intellectual content is to destroy a part of himself. And this people won’t do.

In today's world, and always, there are many ridiculous, loathsome, ideological groups and semi-cults out there spewing lies and hurting people. Their mind-warping beliefs are interminable vaporizing and not accurate. Their brain-washing thought-systems are ill-conceived and vicious.

And their winding, torturous folderol is rarely or never “the truth” which "takes time to explain”. In point of fact, their lengthy diatribes are almost invariably fatuous and depraved nonsense, as well as acts of destructive indoctrination.

Enlightenment Revolutions

 

The American Revolution of 1776-1783 mostly got it right. The French Revolution of 1789-1799 largely got it wrong. The Americans believed in and fought for “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, and in deference to “inalienable rights”. The French believed in and fought for “liberty, equality, fraternity”, and in deference to “the general will”.

The Americans, and their Declaration of Independence, were mostly individualist; the French, and their Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, were largely collectivist. The American revolutionaries essentially thought that sovereignty lay with the individual, and eventually ended up with leaders like Jefferson and Madison. The French revolutionaries essentially thought that sovereignty lay with the nation, and eventually ended up with a leader like Napoleon.

The Americans had a high regard for true reason --  whose leaders were mostly deist. The French established a Cult of Reason -- whose leaders were mostly executed. The Americans overthrew a foreign and tyrannical rule by relatively-virtuous Britain. The French overthrew a local and tyrannical rule by a largely-vicious hereditary monarchy and established church.

But, ultimately, both Enlightenment-based revolutions did believe in, and advance, the cause of individual freedom; and of equal justice and liberty for all.