I should go to sleep. But I have some good stories to tell! I will list them:
- Over-active Mountain Dew - Humorous self-segregation in the cafeteria - Born in Flames - My professor loves Romero - Biden v. Palin debate - Quantum-mind talk in Kresge course - Theft in my dorm - Math in Astrobiology!!! - Talkin’ Starcraft in the cafeteria - Pistachios on Pizza?! - The Laundry Talk (video games, Lost, the Project (incorporate interesting ideas!), sticky-notes, lint?) - Library-mania - Rohan is from Kenya - Predictions of future martial law - Shaka Zulu - I figured out the Valenzetti Equation!!! (wait a second… nevermind. Sorry.)
That being done, I’d like to clarify my position on the Libertarian Party and the Barr campaign:
- I am a registered Libertarian. I believe that of all parties, theirs has a touch of destiny about it.
- That being said, I suggest voting Libertarian only if you are idealistic about the potential of limited government to change society around the world for the better if it is fully realized. And if you are a Republican or Democrat who doesn’t want Barr as President, but desire to send a message to both parties to take on Libertarian characteristics, only vote for Bob Barr if your state is ’safe’, that is, it is not a battleground state. Battleground staters, rally for one of the two major candidates, because you are the one who will make or break history.
- That being said, I myself feel correct only about voting for Bob Barr in California. I believe if it was entirely up to me, the Maverick Pa- excuse me, the Republican Party would take Washington this November. They feel the most correct for the United States of America, in my ideology.
- That being said, I would identify one facet of myself as a extremist moderate. I love the practical sensability and logic of a moderate stance on everything, as I too love the romantic, revolutionary feeling of destiny that extremists hold dear. By being an moderate extremist, a contradiction, I can see the value in a number of different ideologies and political affiliations, except for when they become solely extremists or solely moderates. Extremists are undemocratic and pose a risk to the world (though experimental, which as I’ve said, is the smartest characteristic), but moderates never get anything done. I’ve adopted both the negative and positive aspects of this binary. Does this make sense, you ask? Yes, it makes more sense than you think. Try to think of everything a moderate extremist is not. I am everything that isn’t what extremist moderatism is intrinsically not.
Understand? No? Okay: Make a graph, and then draw a centered, 2-Dimensional donut (that is, a smaller circle inside of a larger circle) on that graph, and figure out the axes I’m talking about. It’ll click, if it hasn’t already.
Thanks for reading!
- Brendon Carpenter
