From: puccio@media.mit.edu (Jim Puccio)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush,alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.politics.elections
Subject: Re: George Will on the GOP
Date: 2 Sep 92 05:12:23 GMT
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Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory

Let me get this straight ...

A bit back, in article <1992Aug31.192400.15892@lsil.com> mitch@lsil.com
  (Mitch Sako) said:

> George Will is a member of the cultural elite and the intelligencia.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> He is an enemy of the right.

Let's *think* a bit.  George Will is hardly a friend of the left.  Now we hear
that, based on his intellectual credentials (alone, I assume), that he is also
an enemy of the right.  

*That* is very (as I said in article 
  <PUCCIO.92Sep1024223@media-lab.media.mit.edu>) ...

> Interesting.  

So, let's carry forth the syllogism:

1)  (cultural elite | intellectual) = ~ right
2)  ~ (cultural elite | intellectual) = ~~ right
3)  (~ cultural elite) & (~ intellectual) = right

i.e., 

> From this I glean that only the culturally deprived and ignorant
> have the proper qualities to play along with the right.

This tidy piece of logic drew the incredibly well-reasoned response 
  <1992Sep2.013918.817@news.acns.nwu.edu> from birdman@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
  (Christopher Kush):

> [...] let's attempt to keep our inane, blithering, worthless generalizations
> off the group, too, since all they really do is cause others to believe we
> might be shitsuckingly ignorant knuckledragging buffoons.
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^

Curiouser and curiouser.  I'm not sure I follow this line of reasoning.
I see two possible interpretations:

a)  Reason is used by shitsuckingly ignorant knuckledragging buffoons.

b)  The cultural elite, intellectuals and their defenders are shitsuckingly
    ignorant knuckledragging buffoons.

Let's go with (b), because it seems to sum up the response:

4)  (cultural elite | intellectual) = (shitsuckingly ignorant & knuckledragging
    & buffoon)

I'll do this real slow for the non-mathematicians in the audience ...

5)  ~ (cultural elite | intellectual) = ~ (shitsuckingly ignorant &
    knuckledragging & buffoon)

6)  (~ cultural elite) & (~ intellectual) = (~ shitsuckingly ignorant) |
    (~ knuckledragging) | (~ buffoon)

In English, this goes something like "Culturally deprived ignorami are 
stellarly informed, refined or erudite minds."

Yup.  Slavery is freedom.  War is peace.  Bush is the education president.
Quayle is a respectable representative of this great nation of ours.  Bush
is the environmental president.  Theirs has been a kinder, gentler 
administration.

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