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Runnin said:
Oh, I assure you there are pompous, arrogant asshats in the blue-collar world and most any segment of society. It may manifest more subtlety but competition for status within a group is just part of being human.

How many jobs do you think J.K. Rowling has created? How about Beyonce or Sir Paul McCartney? I wonder how many non-musicians the music industry employs. Probably only a small percentage of employees in the industry are actual performers.
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markets are nothing if not remorseless when it comes to attaching value to things and people

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one of the greatest works of economics...not for the layperson
 
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The irony of this guy starting this thread while voting for trump is still too much for me

Even better when he acts like Republican examples are just rogue republicans and not people that hold office and power
 
This thread is full of gold. Y'all don't seem bothered by it. I think that shows you've lost your mind.

As for my views on Trump... Sturg33 would prefer a government 1/10th the size and power so that someone like Trump can't break so many people so easily
 
sturg33 said:
NoBoDy CeLeBrAtEs AbOrTiOn

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More irony

You upset that people got rid of the government determining health care choices for them

And you (you shared someone doing it) attacked appearance of people while doing so
 
sturg33 said:
This thread is full of gold. Y'all don't seem bothered by it. I think that shows you've lost your mind.

As for my views on Trump... Sturg33 would prefer a government 1/10th the size and power so that someone like Trump can't break so many people so easily
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Yes!

3rd person speak now!!
 
goldfly said:
More irony

You upset that people got rid of the government determining health care choices for them

And you (you shared someone doing it) attacked appearance of people while doing so
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I'm upset at a government not protecting human life.

And those people are ****ing disgusting looking. I'm quite confident most will die miserable and alone with their cats
 
nsacpi said:
we all have our hierarchy of what it is that constitutes the apex of humanity

i would put art very near the top

we've been at it a long time too

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While some people were drawing on rocks, others were moving us to a point where we can draw on computer screens and write in the sky.
 
Runnin said:
Yes, life would be so much better without art, music, poetry, or any other man-made beauty. Good lord man, you may be a sadder curmudgeon than FB.

You can't have intelligent life without art and creativity.
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I agree you can't have intelligent life without creativity. I'm not sure why art would be lumped in as the same as creativity though. Building Machu Picchu or the pyramids were creative, and there is certainly an artistic aspect to architecture, but those things served a tangible purpose and required knowledge and skills. Kids in elementary schools regularly make more accurate representations of the night sky than Van Gogh. So what is great about it, other than a herd mentality driving it to hit status like a Britney Spears song?

As for art, I don't object to it, I don't want to ban it or tear it all down. I just don't think tax money should be used to prop it up, and certainly not deficit spending. JK Rowling and successful musicians don't need our tax money.
 
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