It's just posturing by internet shut ins.

Well the point would be to say the notion (regardless of what it is) to the crowd that would be the least inclined to hear it. The air time which gets the outrageous claims actually is considered very regular to the people who are watching. People who watch Glenn Beck do not consider his ideas provocative. Provocative would be making his audience watch an hour of Michael Moore's pedantic speech.

It is an innate human behavior to avoid ideas that violate our own personal beliefs, be they religious, political, philosophical. The problem here is that this is precisely the cause of intolerance, when people become so insular in their worldview that anything that disturbs it will provoke a hostile reaction.

A person who will shout an unpopular idea at the mob is in effect doing the unruly masses a favor. A pity we're not compensated for it.

" what is the notion that dares not speak these days?"
actions, and of course they speak for themselves, and if not well, grow silent with disuse.


"could reason and rationality be the intellectual barbarism of our time? "

it could be anything, even anti-intellectually civilian ...ism or izum


















Exceptions That Prove a Rule

"this division - between those who find the unfathomable inevitable and beautiful,
and those who find it irrational and thus needing to be changed -
has been a usual split, or perhaps cycle, among everyone forever." ~ Norman Macrae

except for those that don't

will you have my actions silenced until the end of time?
your brain-teased judgments scalded clean with remorse.
of folly and countless escapades that sought only your delight.
turned to crime and missing chances at every turn.
to bring together all futility and simmer in cold dawns such as this.

with a rising sun, warmth tickles pink your infinite desires, of waking
from so long a sleep, it never tires of dying from each pitiful rebuke
that sends me once again into horrors caught with nightshades,
labeled, framed, shamed and forever straying, until now when I'd only
still whisper in your ear, I love you and you return the favor.

now i would appreciate, if you could explain, as clearly as your won't.
the exception that proves the rule and how its definition breaks cool,
upon your face so bleak, your heart in tatters, still smelling sweet,
your words of wisdom foretelling a likely retreat that will not borrow
or weep, yet harness a respite from due diligence to reap a whirlwind.

So, is Jason an intellectual barbarian?