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LUDIC LOG
07.05.2004

With final apologies to G. Flaubert and L.H. Lapham, the Ludic Log presents the last installment of Received Ideas  for a New Millennium.  Part 3 of a series over the slow holiday weekend.

DIVERSITY: Diversity is very important.  Emphasize that you believe in diversity; have seminars and training sessions relating to it.  Talk about how your interests are very diverse.  Diversity does not mean that everyone should be equally rewarded, or that people should gain unfair advantages in the name of diversity.  "Special rights".  Quote Martin Luther King on "the content of their character"; do not quote him on anything else.

FINANCE. Everyone should learn finance, even if it does not interest them.  They are only robbing themselves by not knowing it.  When discussing finance, emphasize the word "realistic" a great deal, and not the word "responsible".

IMMIGRATION. Immigrants made this country great; you yourself are the product of immigrants somewhere down the line.  However, it is unquestionably true that the immigrants we have today are much worse than any we have ever had before and are changing this country for the worse.  Something should be done about immigration.

PICTURES: "A picture is worth a thousand words", followed by joke about photographers.  Say that the problem with some people is that they don't see the big picture.  Another way to say this is that they see things in the short term instead of the long term.  What the difference is between the big and little picture, or the short and long term, is pretty subjective, but always say you are in favor of big-/long positions.

RAP: If you like it, call it "the poetry of the streets".  Imply that people who do not like rap are racists.  If you don't (and why should you?), say it is "not real music" or that it is "just noise".  Rappers are not musicians and cannot write music, play instruments or sing.  Reject absolutely any suggestion of racism in your hatred of rap.  All rap music is about is sex, drugs, violence, and money, subjects never discussed in other types of music.  Say "rap is crap", because those words rhyme.

REALITY: When someone disagrees with you, say they don't want to face reality.  "I don't want to do it, but I have to be realistic".  Reality is not the same as statistics; you can prove anything with statistics.

RIGHT: When you want to do something, you have the right to do it; anyone who tries to stop you is trying to take away your rights.  When someone else wants to do something you don't want them to do, say: "it's not a right, it's a privelege".  Many things are in gray areas, but with some issues, it is a matter of right and wrong.  Those issues are the ones you happen to care about.

SECURITY: A very important word this century.  Homeland security; security industry; security alerts.  The government is supposed to provide for your security.  Ask someone if they are willing to give up some freedoms for security, then take a fierce stance on one side or the other.  Do not explain what the question means.

TRUTH: Nobody seems to care about the truth anymore in this crazy world of ours.  Truth has no obligation to serve ideology, except when it does.  All the talk in the world won't change the truth.  Say, "the truth is...", then say the truth, or something like it.  "Speaking truth to power".

UNIONS: There may have been a need for them once -- although this is debatable -- but there is certainly no need for them now.  "Every man his own boss".  Freelancing will ultimately replace unionism, and, presumably, will duplicate its gains somehow.  All unions are corrupt.  The corruption of a union is far worse than the corruption of a corporation, which is a given.
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