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Old 08-19-2016, 05:33 PM   #310
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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh View Post
Because the tools available to Liberalism are not applicable to fighting radicalism. I hate to slide into primitive justification, but you don't explain to a charging grizzly why he's wrong or why he shouldn't kill you. Your options are to stay away and avoid the grizzly encounter as best as you can, to kill the grizzly, or to die, because you can't outrun the grizzly. Liberalism is destined to choose the third option, because it can't use the first two.
I'm tempted to respond that the solution is to outsmart and thereby enlighten the grizzly, but I am currently reflecting on an episode of a Revisionist History "The Paradox of Satire" which I am struggling to digest because I had a long-held beleif that satire is a powerful tool for undermining ignorance.

tl;dl - if satire is effective enough, it becomes self-defeating, like LMFAO's 'Party Rock Anthem' or Machiavelli's "The Prince"
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