Liberty is an inherently offensive lifestyle. Living in a free society guarantees that each one of us will see our most cherished principles and beliefs questioned and in some cases mocked. That psychic discomfort is the price we pay for basic civic peace. It's worth it. It's a pragmatic principle. Defend everyone else's rights, because if you don't there is no one to defend yours. -- MaxedOutMama

I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing. -- Kim du Toit

The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them.-- Moshe Ben-David

The cult of the left believes that it is engaged in a great apocalyptic battle with corporations and industrialists for the ownership of the unthinking masses. Its acolytes see themselves as the individuals who have been "liberated" to think for themselves. They make choices. You however are just a member of the unthinking masses. You are not really a person, but only respond to the agendas of your corporate overlords. If you eat too much, it's because corporations make you eat. If you kill, it's because corporations encourage you to buy guns. You are not an individual. You are a social problem. -- Sultan Knish

All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. -- Billy Beck

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Anagnorisis and Peripeteia


Perusing the archives at Jaded Haven I stumbled upon this TED video of Mike Rowe of the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs. Not for the weak of stomach, but worth, as she says, your twenty minutes. Hang on through the first five.


I do believe Mike Rowe would kick Wolf Blitzer's ass in Jeopardy.

As a result of his work on Dirty Jobs, Rowe has become a "trade activist" - someone who is actively campaigning to restore the traditional trades to a position of respect in American culture. His site is MikeRoweWORKS.com. View his mission video here.

UPDATE:  9/30/13 - Mike Rowe gives the background story about this talk:

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