More Pudding Proves Cunning Linguist Camp Wrong (again)...

[ChriswUfGator]

Oh they understand just fine, they just don't agree. Unfortunately, Kortland is giving these people waaaaaaaay too much credit. They're not just blissfully misinformed, rather, they full well know what's up but still go through every published study available looking for snippets that might appear to support their foregone elitist conclusions. Which are, essentially, that we need more rich white people and less of, well, everything else.

This is nothing education or information is going to cure, unfortunately the problem runs deeper than that.

[Kortland]

My reply has mysteriously turned into its own thread (not entirely sure how that happened). If the pudding camp would like to read it, it can be found at the head of the so-named "Kortland's East Lake Discussion" thread. http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,7858.0.html

[strider]

You know, my friend Kortland believes we should all return to an absolute monarchy.  Something about the lower classes obviously not being able to govern themselves.

Perhaps he could be persuaded to weigh in.

A friend who was working on his PHD once told me the most successful form of government was feudalism as the ultimate power was always in the hands to the common folk.  If you had a good lord or king (or queen), then everyone had enough and prospered.  If you had a bad lord or king, then ultimately the people rose up (as they weren’t just the labors and such, but also the armies) and took the power away from him (or her) and gave it to someone they believed to be  better.

We seem to be able to do the same thing today, but through voting.  It isn’t perhaps as successful nor as satisfying, but still we have the power if we can and are allowed to exercise it. And  if and when we are not allowed to exercise that right, perhaps the old ways should be brought back.

I think some will agree that this seems to apply to a certain organization here in Springfield.

[KuroiKetsunoHana]

can't remember who originally said it, but it must be added here:  if voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

[FLDrifter]

Although Im so inspired by all this talk, Ive written a poem to Zoo's Pudding Crusade.
Ive Entitled it:  

Take Up Zoo's Newfound Burden.

"Take up Zoo's newfound burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up Zoo's newfound burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up Zoo's newfound burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up Zoo's newfound burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up Zoo's newfound burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up Zoo's newfound burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up Zoo's newfound burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!"