Picking a Culture

I heard someone once ask, “Why would you limit yourself to one culture, to identify with that solely and exclude all other cultural influences?” The fact that value has a lot to do with exclusivity aside, picking just one and sticking to it relieves you of the burden of having to pick any others. One does not have to choose between cultural practices and traditions when one adopts a particular lifestyle. One can devote oneself exclusively to the traditions and rituals of the chosen culture. Now this is seen by contemporary liberals as kind of icky, because so many people have historically been forced to conform to a particular cultural tradition when a mix and match approach of various cultural elements is what is best for them. There are still many people, however, who identify with one monolithic cultural canon and wish to stick with it. Often these people are simply ignorant of what other cultures have to offer, but there do exist people who devote themselves to one culture because they identify with it more than they do any other set of practices, rather than because they don't know any better.

Palin's Prospects

I have long been hoping that Sarah Palin will not only run for the Republican nomination in the next presidential election, but also that she'll succeed. I have also been quite sceptical of her prospects. Given that she has the far more coherent and far less annoying Mitt Romney running against her, I've always assumed that her prospects were dim. However, given that Obama, and people at the Cato Institute are pointing out how extremely similar Obama's health care reform bill was to Romney's own health care program in Massachusetts, and given that those on the right seem to be looking for someone who is entirely opposed to Obamacare, Romney will be severely handicapped.

On the other hand, Ron Paul has been getting increasingly impressive poll numbers. Either way, if either a retard like Palin, or a crackpot like Ron Paul get elected, it will mean the end of the Republican Party for quite some time. Hopefully, if Ron Paul gets elected, he'll at least legalize weed.

Well...

It's been a while since I posted. I haven't run out of things to say, but my mind always seems to go blank whenever I sit to write something. It's the intimidation of having to make it all coherent. I have lots of thoughts, but they're often disjointed and it's always a chore trying to get them to come together into something readable.