The 2008 US Presidential Debates

I plan on totally ignoring the elections because every candidate sucks this year.  

I'm going to watch the debates very carefully... and then ask people to vote for Obama anyway... (I can't vote yet... in two more years...)

I chose the alternative to the "other" option, which is:

I'm not American, so I don't really have a choice to watch the debates on TV, which means that even though I'm going to ignore the whole event it slightly bothers me that I can't make my indifference appear a revolutionarily statement against the whole election thing which is nothing more than commercial pseudo-political nonsense bearing no relevance to anything remotely important because no matter whom they vote the president the real power lies with the government and the secret government above the government, and there's a government above every government except the highest government, which is so secret a government that its members don't even know that they're members of a government, in fact I could be one of them and probably am.

I'll definitely watch what I can of them.

Meme theory is quite interesting, a meme is basically the philosophical equivalnet of a gene: An idea that passes itself on to people as it's communicated, combining with other ideas and mutating as it reaches across places and times.

... sort of, on the metaphorical level at least.

Okay, I'm not sure if I've been much of a help here. I'm fairly exhausted right now, so stay tuned because tomorrow I'll probably make a new post explaining this whole memetics thing in more detail.


Edited by Toaster Mantis - September 10 2008 at 16:05

Probably catch a few minutes of them knowing they'll only piss me off, and knowing that I won't be voting for either clown.

The Kerry/Bush/Edwards/Cheney debates were ridiculous. Not just because of the constant terrible arguments and fallacies, but listening to the comments of people afterwards. One woman's reason for voting Bush was that she wouldn't be able to make more money (100K or so) over time (she was a waitress) if Kerry was elected.

Its people/comments like that that make me really want to leave this country sometimes. NOT the people in office. Which is pretty bad.

There should really be an adult voter responsibilty class/act here. Everyone must take it. The government would pay for it (by redirecting our money that goes to those ridiculous conventions). Basically it would be a class on critical thinking. Then people could better choose who to not vote for.

Sigh - ostensibly one should watch the debates to "get informed", but the information content in these modern debates is virtually nil.  Just parroting of talking points and a carefully constructed performance for either side.

I'll probably watch if I can but leave the opinions up to me, not the experts.