Bend It Like Bentham

A utilitarianism blog. Bending the truth and distorting the facts of reality so as to conform them with our own set of whims, emotions, faiths and wishes. This blog will take you on a journey through the philosophical musings and inner conflicts of a man entering the world of utilitarianism. We will focus on dissecting the works of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Lastly, we will be exposing Objectivism as the irrational philosophy that it is.

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Bill O'Reilly

If Ann Coulter is the sand-filled, puss-ridden, oozing cunt of conservatism in America, then Bill is its diametrically opposed yet equally septic canker-covered limp dick. Like Coulter, O'Reilly manages to embody all of those qualities that make America the ponderous leviathan it is today, as he advocates a delicate balance of domestic liberty intrusions and international war-mongering tendencies that can only be described as fascism revived. Amazingly, if a given policy is guaranteed to leave innocents dead, or further expand the size of our bloated, self-serving mega-state, you can count on O'Reilly to advocate it, as the true motive force behind those of his mindset is the enlargement of government for the purpose of forcing an irrational worldview on everyone else while terminating dissenters, partially inspired by the worship of an imagined deity and partly by a love for carnage (and the lack of a healthy orgasm).

Bill O'Reilly is a seemingly superhuman amalgamation of qualities that make him at once loathsome to the rational layman that has become the exception rather than the rule in our society, and appealing to the average dullard who remains content to tolerate civil liberty encroachments by the federal government as long as he has 500 television stations to help him pass the time in a state of semi-sedation in between his countless hours spent working and sleeping. In viewing O'Reilly's televised tirades, one will witness the most appalling and unimaginably eclectic juxtapositions of completely incompatible and illogical ideas, the inconsistencies of which defy any serious attempt to offer anything beyond bullshit right wing propoganda to a docile audience. As soon as anyone counters O'Reillys endless stream of logorrhea, he shuts off their mircrophones in a hissyfit.

O'Reilly is firstly the worst kind of polemecist, and in our day and age the most effective -- one for whom truth is no object; He is secondly the worst kind of war-mongerer -- an abject coward who remains a safe distance of thousands of miles from the front lines, preferring the regurgiutated epithets of Fox News to the epitaphs of foxholes. And he is lastly the lowest of all pundits -- the hypocrite who in his actions, demonstrates the low regard he has for the behavior he seeks to impose on everyone else, professing such unnatural lifestyles as abstinence all while serenading a female coworker to the point of sexual harassment http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris1.html Only one who holds his audience in low regard could continue to preach principles to them that he wouldn't lower himself to obey - that a beaten circus dog wouldn't even obey - but they only love him more. It takes a special kind of pundit to become enflamed over a contrived "War on Christmas" while treating a botched and erroneous actual war with cold indifference.

He operates as an intellectual sycophant for mental midgets across the nation who seek a man of seemingly intellectual authority to persistently reinforce their delusional ideologies. The historical propensity of masses to surrender their judgment to those charismatic figures who assume the appearance of authority and power is too well known and documented to dwell on here. Homo Sapien has an almost infinite capacity for producing an assembly line of father figures to assert that the earth is flat, that Aryans are ubermenschen, or that a Nazarene magician rose from the dead, and where there is a charismatic leader spouting this crap, you will find a collection of brainless followers that lap up these doctrines.

His repetitive use of the word "ideologue" as an insult to his intellectual opponents is perplexing... According to Dictionary.com, an ideologue is "An advocate of a particular ideology, especially an official exponent of that ideology." What kind of person considers such a charge as defamatory? Probably someone who shouldn't be helping to shape public opinion about politics. Every big swinging dick in the history of political philosophy from Thomas Jefferson to Karl Marx has been an "ideologue." Most people would realize the futility of debating such thinkers by calling them ideological advocates. But at least O'Reilly is consistent on this one issue; he is in fact not an ideologue, but the poster child for the modern death of political philosophy in our society, replaced with rhetoric, easily digestible slogans, and a generous serving of bullshit.

We need not wonder about the success of the likes of O'Reilly, Coulter, Hannity and the rest; in a society that values shouting matches, pedantic punditry, and militant dogmatism over rational discourse and an honest pursuit of truth, it is the crap that rises to the top.

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