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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'd call Maher "Accuratist." He's not doing anything Jon Stewart hasn't done for years. He's pointing out the inherent idiocy of ideology, which comes off as amoral.
Maher refuses to pick a side (though he seems to come down on the liberal side most often) and says what a lot of people really want to say but can't because our social strictures dictate the suggestion morality's a small-minded concept - no matter how Ayn Randian logical that conclusion may be - is heresy.
We need to pick sides and stand for things. We think it makes us noble or better than what we'd otherwise be. We think our "values" are the glue of society. Maybe they are. But maybe we're wrong. Or maybe our love affair with morality as a defining and important concept is little overblown, unjustified, and maybe it blinds to a wiser rational mode of thinking. Maher's a poor attempt at philosopher asking those half-a-joint-and-three-fingers-of-Scotch-in-your-head questions.
We trip over ourselves genuflecting to "morality" in this country so much we don't even understaqnd the concept except as a hammer to claim we're better than someone else.
Amoral? If you're referring to the strident "values" I see ponged around this country by the "moral" every day, yep. And quite proud of it.
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I still think the best political show would be Dennis Miller on the right and Bill Maher on the left. It would be a great crossfire.
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