Spider Jerusalem, the protagonist of Transmetropolitan, has an interesting perspective on voting. This is another one unsuitable for all those teeny-tots reading my livejournal. But there are a couple of points where I disagree with him. <\/p>\n
In general, I’m fine with whores, sinners, and freaks, most of them at least have some humility or alot of pragmatism. It’s self-righteous authoritarian majorities who wish to reshape the world into some autocratically constructed, idealized image that worry me, particularly because autocratically constructed images are rarely implementable.<\/p>\n
You have to page down a bit to get to the cartoon. But once you see the guy with the tattooed bald head, jacket, and no shirt, you’ve got it. http:\/\/edge.cow-dog.net\/archives\/2004\/10\/12\/on-voting-and-elections-in-general\/<\/p>\n
That’s pretty much what the election results felt like to alot of us. Probably the most polarizing election of my lifetime. And they haven’t been getting any more uniting as time goes by. I really hope my misgivings are wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spider Jerusalem, the protagonist of Transmetropolitan, has an interesting perspective on voting. This is another one unsuitable for all those teeny-tots reading my livejournal. But there are a couple of points where I disagree with him. In general, I’m fine with whores, sinners, and freaks, most of them at least have some humility or alot … Continue reading “Spider Jerusalem on voting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}