Thursday, August 13, 2009

Steven Weber: Mad Men (On Mobs & Health Care Reform)


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I've posted many a piece by blogger/actor Steven Weber in the past, but this one really hit me. Once again, he's written something that was in my head, but he put it into words I could only aspire to. If you haven't ever read his stuff, this is a good place to start.

[Excerpt]

Mad Men

. . .A dispassionate observer might conclude that such a mentality is ultimately not worth the effort to rehabilitate; that the total immersion into the mob ideology as directed by its de facto leaders (who have more in common with the fascist/socialist dictators their opponents supposedly possess) renders such a person incapable of reason and devoid of sense, responding only to fight or flight, black and white, reward and punishment, good and evil. . .

Read more at: Huffington Post

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