Teabonics

[sabotabby]

A Flickr collection of teabagger signs.



On my less-happy days, I don't know how I stand living in a world that spawns people like this.

P.S. Not because of the spelling and grammar fail. Just because I can't cope with knowing there are human beings so devoid of empathy.

Comments

[hopita.livejournal.com]

Our only "Lanaguage"?

Lumpenproletariat is lumpen

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

The main problem is that a lot of them are not very smart. I don't know if the problem is flat ignorance, lead poisoning, or what, but their brains just don't work very well. Empathy, reasoning, language ability - all faculties are working suboptimally.

Well, we all know what it is. It's the devastating result of being raised by anti-smart churches, television, and nothing. I don't think most of them have read a book in their lives.

http://lookatthisfuckingteabagger.com/

I mean, there are lots of dumb people on the left, but at demos people can mostly spell. Not everyone, but more people can spell and speak and think and stand upright while chewing gum, and so on. The teabag movement is really a race to the dregs.

Re: Lumpenproletariat is lumpen

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

'Lumpenproletariat is lumpen'
only it's predominately the middle class, not the lumpenproles.

Re: Lumpenproletariat is lumpen

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Well, a mix of the lumpen-proletariat and lumpen-petit-bourgeoisie, if you prefer, with haute-bourgeois pulling the strings, but it's not as mellifluous. (All these marxian terms are getting inexact these days anyway.)

I'm not actually quite sure about that "predominantly." I think the class composition of tea gatherings is more expansive than that.

Re: Lumpenproletariat is lumpen

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

'I'm not actually quite sure about that "predominantly."'
considering how many of these things i've been to and seen, living right around the corner from the rhode island state house and with friends that have gone to them in other states, i can say, with some certainty, that it is predominately middle class.
and, also, they have such a seething hatred for me and my lumpenprole fellows that goes well beyond anything i've seen before.
they truly believe that anyone who isn't gainfully employed is someone less than human.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

The USA - possibly the most successful experiment in human stupification in history.

I suspect most of 'em are capable of empathy. They've just had so much fear pumped into them it's got buried.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, so much for this; I will be having some fun with these in the morning.

[culpster.livejournal.com]

I have no answers. But I can't stand it either.

[pluvka.livejournal.com]

i keep seeing this car on my way to work, with this bumper sticker that says "why should i have to press 1 for english". it fills me with such rage.

[laughingimp.livejournal.com]

I live in a conservative stronghold in suburban/rural Illinois, and I see stuff like this all the time. The correct answer, near as I can figure, is, "Because if you had to press 2 for English, idiots like you would riot."

[purveyorofchaos.livejournal.com]

I am only (ONLY) offended by the spelling and grammar errors.

(Honestly there's only a million reasons to hate these people, not the least of which is the fact that they have ruined tea, and the loveliness of it. Assholes.)

[ocicat-bengals.livejournal.com]

The teabonic photos helped counter all the other bleakness about the news. And I think we all feel overwhelmed at those who appear unwilling to extend basic human rights to others. It's exasperating.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

On my less-happy days, I don't know how I stand living in a world that spawns people like this.

I have a theory that links greed, stupidity and insanity which may be tangentially related to this.

There is an egoistic stage of early childhood in which kids see their connections with others but not others' connections with each other. For example, they see their connection with mommy and their connection with auntie, but do not yet grasp that mommy and auntie are sisters. Hence, the kid sees the world as a bike wheel with all the spokes of association radiating to him or her. All roads lead to Rome. Eventually, the kid learns of these other connections and the center of the bike wheel becomes the center of a concentric spider web. It is still an egoistic model, but at least it has more connections.

This suggests the connection between stupidity and egoism. If I go through life with an attitude of "What does this do for me?" and am disinterested in everything that does not directly affect me, there is little inclination to look at how things connect or fit together. Since "an idea is a feat of association," as Robert Frost put it, I am not interested in ideas as a whole and simply not in the habit of thinking, period. Knowledge comes from objective thought, which selfish people are severely handicapped in. They still see the world as a concentric spider web, whereas the less self-centered see it as more of a tangled, partially shredded fishing net with no center. This is a more accurate – and thus more useful – model. And since sanity is essentially seeing the world as it is, there you are.

It's not a unified field theory of human psychology, but I think it explains the correlation between stupidly and selfishness rather well.