what there is about mediocre reasoning that makes it so tendentious:
Huffingtonisms:
Today, on this day in which the New York Times reports in a cover story that, although productivity has risen, wages have not, such that "wages and salaries now make up the lowest share of the nation's gross domestic product since the government began recording the data in 1947, while corporate profits have climbed to their highest share since the 1960's," I am relieved to know that Tom Cruise has, indeed, secured funding for his film company...
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but Huffington herself has a post on 27.08 about the drugging of children at summer camp - or more accurately the continuation of the medication of children while they're at camp - wherein she quotes stats from the NYTimes, USAToday, and the Guardian:"We now have over a million kids on Prozac and its equivalents and more than seven million on Ritalin."It's creepy aliens-from-outer-space-enslave-the-humans stuff.
Cruise was ridiculed for yelling about the widespread medicating of kids while jumping on a couch on national TV.
Among other things yes, but that primarily.
He should have jumped more, and maybe socked somebody while he was at it.
Compare and contrast those drug statistics with the headlines generated by Greg Landis and try to reconcile the attitudes behind them.
Landis can use the latest technology on his bike, in his clothes and shoes, use the latest scientific formulae in his meals, pay thousands of dollars to people who will present him with the latest research on all that - but no "performance enhancements" allowed.
And it's tacit that the same cultural norms are represented in both issues.
Yes. No.
We're trained to put everything in binaries, so Scientolology's bizarre affection for fascistic defense mechanisms and insect mind-control means they can't be given a voice in the debate about doping kids.
I don't see why not. Yeah they're nuts, but so's everybody else. And it's not getting any better.
Cruise got that one message out there far more effectively than Huffington and her collective can or will.
The danger is Scientology's loopy unhuman stuff hitchikes in on the inarguable obscenity of an issue they're right on on.
But these are risky times all around.
