| Viper1 said: 1. I'm neither a Republican nor a Conservative. 2. I care not whether the USSR collapsed or it's no longer the 1950's. The definitions retain their meaning. Public perception may change all it likes but it doesn't change facts. |
That makes no sense. Definitions of social constructs like capitalism, democracy, and socialism change their meaning over time because those words have no meaning without reference to reality, in other words the way those things are actually practiced. That's like saying that an airplane today is the same as an airplane from 50 years ago because the definition hasn't changed. It makes absolutely no sense.
Words change their meaning over time in every language known to man. That is just how languages work. Reality is constantly changing. Words are just signifiers for aspects of reality.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
