Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
by coldtea on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @03:55AM
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>Sigh. Are you posting this Twitter meme seriously or is it a joke? It doesn't even stand up to light intellectual scrutiny.
Actually, far from a Twitter meme, it's a millennia long empirical observation.
It's only the disconnect from power of today's citizen that make them thing they can be uninvolved with politics (and that this doesn't send a political message and have political impact).
The very definition of a citizen was one who was active in politics (the inverse being someone preoccupied with their own private matters, an "idiotis" in Ancient Greek, and the etymology for "idiot").
Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
by Pimpus on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @02:05PM
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> The very definition of a citizen was one who was active in politics (the inverse being someone preoccupied with their own private matters, an "idiotis" in Ancient Greek, and the etymology for "idiot").
Um, OK... but not everything is a political act. It's just a ridiculous meme I see now and again.
Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
by coldtea on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:08AM
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Yeah, it's not literally really about everything (e.g. taking a shit) being political, it's about how all kinds of stances are political (even a stance like "I don't care about politics, I focus on my own personal stuff" has political implications).
Sigh. Are you posting this Twitter meme seriously or is it a joke? It doesn't even stand up to light intellectual scrutiny.
As for actors, musicians etc blabbering about politics, the things they say tend to be elitist, disconnected and uninformed. Don't think it does the world any good, apart from highlighting just how far removed they are from the common man.