Defining Fascism

[xoxoxoBruce]

Six months or 6/10 of a second you're still on the other side of the world where it's safe.
You don't have to check under the bed at night, in the backseat of your car coming out of the mall, or the kitchen of the restaurant, to make sure terrorists aren't going to rush out and saw your head off, like UG does.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Six months or 6/10 of a second you're still on the other side of the world where it's safe.

You are being wry here, right? Sorry if my wrymeter needs calibrating...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

You are being wry here, right? Sorry if my wrymeter needs calibrating...

Yes, wry with lots of poop-on mustard. Did I make you feel bad for poor persecuted UG?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Reading about it -- vicarious experience -- is not a substitute for actual experience, Ibbie. Too, what colors your perceptions is what you read, and frankly, from the sort of things you say, it looks to me like you're reading things that would do better spread in a flowerbed and well Roto-tillered in.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You don't have to check under the bed at night . . . like UG does.

Last time I checked under the bed, I was looking for the cat. Don't seek to find fear in my thinking unless you truly love frustration served up with disappointment. That and becoming a laughingstock. Hard on the ego, all that.

I second the 1984 recommendation. While it's really a twentieth-century period piece now, its universal truths still hold and its lessons are still valuable.