How the New Age Movement Has Killed The Progressive Movement or Hunter S Thompson was the last real liberal
It all started at a Kerry fundraiser I attended when, after a solid bit of some damn good political discussion which we now label and stigmatize as "ranting" so as to degrade any justified show of emotion and passion whatsoever, a woman dressed in a big swirly skirt and a head scarf shoved her business card in my hand and told me I "don't have to live with my anger." She offered some kind of New Agey goobly gook class so I can "live in peace yet work on change constructively." It wasn't till the drive home it hit me what in the hell she was doing. What they all do now--shame us out of our VERY justified rage and anger about what is happening right now from bailouts to climate change. She was also hoping to make a little dough on my outburst. Oh the beauty of narcissism.
These people are extremely dangerous and have killed, yes killed, the Democrat Party and the Progressive Movement.
The New Agers as far as I can tell, are old Baby Boomer hippies that went from drugs,
narcissism and some incidental social change to just straight old narcissism. The "N" in New Age stands for NARCISSISM.
It isn't the GOP that is sucking the passion out of the progressive movement. It is the progressive movement sucking the passion out of the progressive movement. I call them "Liberal Police." They patrol progressive conferences, workshops, meetings and even house parties for proper "liberal" behavior and if you're angry or worse, verbal about it, they pounce on your ass quicker than Nancy Pelosi can take impeachment off a table.
They're job is to shame you out of our perfectly justified fury. (Which even more dangerous, could lead to actual ACTION--ANGRY action). Lord, what would they have done with Martin Luther King? Taken him to a retreat where he could get in touch with his inner child? Tell him to attend a workshop where he could learn to read his own aura? Would progressives nowadays support Martin Luther King or beg him to "settle down" and "get a massage."? I really do not think Progressives would be able to support an angry black man because it would look really really bad. I mean, he is an "angry black man" and well, we just can't have that. An angry black man or even an angry white man...well, this would make progressives look like what they REALLY are. Really fucking angry.
The Liberal Police are brilliant at shaming passionate people for showing ANY emotion at all and they are great at making you feel like there is something really wrong with you for being angry.
But I have no tolerance for the pathetic little worms anymore (I'm sorry, they never take a stand against anything. They are pathetic little worms).
I feel sorry if any of these folks approach me now because my response is YEA, SO I"M ANGRY AND GUESS WHAT? I AM FINE WITH MY ANGER. I LOVE MY ANGER. I EVEN ROLL AROUND WITH MY ANGER! MY ANGER AND I ARE CRAZY ABOUT ONE ANOTHER! Then I ask them why in the hell aren't they angry? There's alot to be pissed off right now. Wake up! Lobotmy over!
But alas. No. Self-righteous New Agers can NEVER get angry so instead they just get passive aggressive. The liberal progressive new age movement is dripping with passive aggressive behavior. Watch your back.
In thinking about it, the last real liberal was Hunter S Thompson who felt things down to the depths of his soul. Who had a buttload of guns and loved firing them. Who spoke his mind. Who didn't give a crap about political hedging and parsing. Who did a lot of drugs. Who lived his damn life but by a code. A code the woman in the swirly ass skirt and head scarf does haven't a clue about because she's too busy patroling people for proper behavior. Hunter would have made this woman turn inside out.
Real passion ain't pretty.
How I long for this kind of progressive again. Hell I long for anyone with a goddamned personality. But I think personalities have been banned as well. Not professional to have one.
Sidebar: Handy job tip. If you are looking for a job, esp in a corporation or government agency,
the first thing you want to get rid of is your personality. Right before you go through the door, pretend you have had a lobotomy. It's fun! (No laughing out loud though. This blows it). Learn meaningless and mindless small talk and make sure you hit the vending machine at least once a day and "hang out" with your other co-workers to discuss what you crap you will buy from it that day. Great way to bond!).
How I long for Ed Abbey, Molly Ivins, Kurt V....all progressives in their own right. All with, gasps, big personalities, and all who effected real social change in this country and had the courage to do so only because they never thought about that what they had was courage..
They just gave a damn.
These people are extremely dangerous and have killed, yes killed, the Democrat Party and the Progressive Movement.
The New Agers as far as I can tell, are old Baby Boomer hippies that went from drugs,
narcissism and some incidental social change to just straight old narcissism. The "N" in New Age stands for NARCISSISM.
It isn't the GOP that is sucking the passion out of the progressive movement. It is the progressive movement sucking the passion out of the progressive movement. I call them "Liberal Police." They patrol progressive conferences, workshops, meetings and even house parties for proper "liberal" behavior and if you're angry or worse, verbal about it, they pounce on your ass quicker than Nancy Pelosi can take impeachment off a table.
They're job is to shame you out of our perfectly justified fury. (Which even more dangerous, could lead to actual ACTION--ANGRY action). Lord, what would they have done with Martin Luther King? Taken him to a retreat where he could get in touch with his inner child? Tell him to attend a workshop where he could learn to read his own aura? Would progressives nowadays support Martin Luther King or beg him to "settle down" and "get a massage."? I really do not think Progressives would be able to support an angry black man because it would look really really bad. I mean, he is an "angry black man" and well, we just can't have that. An angry black man or even an angry white man...well, this would make progressives look like what they REALLY are. Really fucking angry.
The Liberal Police are brilliant at shaming passionate people for showing ANY emotion at all and they are great at making you feel like there is something really wrong with you for being angry.
But I have no tolerance for the pathetic little worms anymore (I'm sorry, they never take a stand against anything. They are pathetic little worms).
I feel sorry if any of these folks approach me now because my response is YEA, SO I"M ANGRY AND GUESS WHAT? I AM FINE WITH MY ANGER. I LOVE MY ANGER. I EVEN ROLL AROUND WITH MY ANGER! MY ANGER AND I ARE CRAZY ABOUT ONE ANOTHER! Then I ask them why in the hell aren't they angry? There's alot to be pissed off right now. Wake up! Lobotmy over!
But alas. No. Self-righteous New Agers can NEVER get angry so instead they just get passive aggressive. The liberal progressive new age movement is dripping with passive aggressive behavior. Watch your back.
In thinking about it, the last real liberal was Hunter S Thompson who felt things down to the depths of his soul. Who had a buttload of guns and loved firing them. Who spoke his mind. Who didn't give a crap about political hedging and parsing. Who did a lot of drugs. Who lived his damn life but by a code. A code the woman in the swirly ass skirt and head scarf does haven't a clue about because she's too busy patroling people for proper behavior. Hunter would have made this woman turn inside out.
Real passion ain't pretty.
How I long for this kind of progressive again. Hell I long for anyone with a goddamned personality. But I think personalities have been banned as well. Not professional to have one.
Sidebar: Handy job tip. If you are looking for a job, esp in a corporation or government agency,
the first thing you want to get rid of is your personality. Right before you go through the door, pretend you have had a lobotomy. It's fun! (No laughing out loud though. This blows it). Learn meaningless and mindless small talk and make sure you hit the vending machine at least once a day and "hang out" with your other co-workers to discuss what you crap you will buy from it that day. Great way to bond!).
How I long for Ed Abbey, Molly Ivins, Kurt V....all progressives in their own right. All with, gasps, big personalities, and all who effected real social change in this country and had the courage to do so only because they never thought about that what they had was courage..
They just gave a damn.
