On The Third Day Before Christmas… | UNR Students for Liberty

22Dec09 On The Third Day Before Christmas…

By: Barry Belmont

…three little internet bloggers blogged about me…

If you get nothing else out of this article, understand this: The middle ground is the refuge of the incompetent. The constant compromise of two mutually exclusive positions produces a monstrously lackluster philosophy which no one in their heart of hearts actually finds satisfying. “I won’t pretend to believe this, if you pretend not to believe that.” There is nothing good in this position.

Unfortunately the bags of hot air, saline, and fingers-to-type-with known as the VisLupiKids think this is The Way Of All Progress. To them history is just a collection of semi-good solutions cobbled together to do just good enough with what we have to keep what we’ve got going. In their world view there are no visionaries, no revolutionaries. Certainly there is nothing close to Right and Wrong.

Only the Average and the Deviant. They seem to think that conciliatory action is always the soundest strategy, that somehow middle-of-the-road decisions are correct and that this is what should be done, as if one could simply take an average of ideas and declare it to be right while deeming anything outside of this narrow margin of certitude to be “useless.”

They feel bold idealism–the undercurrent of all meaningful change–should be replaced with a cowardly pragmatism such that we only fix what’s broken with student government rather than trash the pathetically inept institution altogether and begin anew. Radical change can only be Deviant, it can only be wrongish, better that it be ignored than seriously engaged.

Thus is the sad reality of the poor VisLupiKids. Just check out their blog (aww, ain’t that cute? A blog.) where they masterfully demonstrate their political insight and deep philosophical understanding of such immense issues as when to confound the meaning of “teabaggers,” the use of a semi-colon, and their knack for writing mindnumbingly stilted prose.

While there, you can see that their piss poor view of the world as unchanging allows them to label us as “hypocrites” for having tried to join the student government and now renouncing it altogether. They ignore time, the varying opinions of a diverse group of individuals, and the ultimate intentions of those acting. In VisLupiLand, people’s opinions don’t change, their intentions are known exclusively to the VLGang (and no one else!), and if at first you don’t succeed, it’s cause you didn’t write some legislation or didn’t use the judiciary or didn’t do what the Ever Wise, Ever Insightful VGFolks said to do.

They claimed that we (SFL) were vegans talking to meat eaters (ASUN) and that the mutual exclusivity of these opinions prevented all dialogue and interaction. But this sadly simplistic view of political interaction helps to emphasize their contemptible position that compromise is the solution to everything. Either both sides need to agree or they can’t have anything to do with each other? No. The vegan can listen to the meat eater and the meat eater can listen to the vegan and the positions of each can enrich the perspectives of both.

Radical action can be taken on both sides to show merit. Vegans can bring in and slaughter a cow. Meat Eaters can pull all medicine tested on animals. Both sides have something to say and a variety of ways to say it. Sometimes a manifesto works, sometimes sitting in an office with a senator’ll do some good, sometimes a slap to the face with a cold fish does wonders. To the VisLupes, zealous representation is just deviant behavior that should be squashed. Consider for a moment this Actual Footage of them during the holiday season:

Bullet point? Once again the VisLupiGang misunderstands a situation, once again the VisLupiGang misrepresents an opinion, once again the VisLupiGang gets it wrong. But you knew all this. They knew all this.

So, Merry Christmas you ineffective little “watchdogs.” Hope you’re just as mildly entertaining in the new year as you were in this past one.

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