Saturday, July 19, 2003
LaRoucher fun
The Daily Cal throws in a half-page photo of a LaRouche "campaigner." Extremely appropriately, she's wearing a Spongebob Squarepants T-Shirt. As I was walking by LaRouche's table on Sproul (the only table in the summer), I heard one LaRoucher remarking loudly how he couldn't convince "these people" (us) because they don't think on a "higher level than themselves." So, for fun and joy, I's a'gonna' argue that it's not a higher plane.
Why should thinking "beyond yourself" even be a higher plane of thought? Why should I care who's oppressing who, or which race is facing racism, or whether Bush is mean? It's a bunch of people I don't know facing problems. Whoopdie doo. So what are some common arguments about why I should care?
"You just should. I look down upon you because you don't. I have no real reason to look down on you because you don't, but I just do, and sigh and shake my head when you ask such questions which challenge me to actually justifiy my condescension." Okay, I guess I kind of gave away my argument.
"It's for the children!" Children are scary. Really, really scary. Summer classes are frightening because there's always children running around, and I'm afraid of them. There's no reason to care about the children.
"What if everyone thought that way?" Interesting question. A more important question, though, is "what if everyone didn't think that way," which is actually the case.
"You owe it to society." Really? Who's this society person, and what did she ever do for me? Maybe I'm a little cynical, but I get the feeling that society didn't really go out of its way to accomodate my arrival into this world. It was just a coincidence, really.
"Not everyone has it as well as you do." Yeah, it's good to be me, isn't it? Again, I don't quite see how this matters.
"You have an obligation to use your abilities and talents to help those more unfortunate." Hmm... why? It's too bad those girls who look at me and sigh also already convinced me there's no God, because that tact might have worked.
In conclusion, higher levels of thought have convinced me that caring about other people is not a higher level of thought. I told you logic blows.
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