I think it's true: your abilities and personality determine how you vote. You may be hardwired to be more conservative or more liberal no matter which party you're in, but nature's secret is that those attributes reflect the kind of role in which you're comfortable.

If you've got true leadership potential, meaning that you can go into an unknown situation and figure out a strategy and see it to completion despite unexpected twists and turns, you'll think like a historian when it comes to politics.

If you're a hard working, clear-thinking person, you'll do your best to defend society and always be from the Don't Fix It If It Ain't Broke camp.

But on the other hand if you can't stop spending your money and time on distractions, and therefore are always beneath the wheel, you're going to get defensive and join the It's Not My Fault horde, and want handouts, special permissions, exceptions, etc. on a constant basis because you'll see yourself as the perennial victim.

I bet this applies to music, too, but not musical genre per se (although all nu-metal fans are drones).

From this article which has offended 6,173 people so far.

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Sounds like you are calling all artist slackers. I wonder where Leonardo da Vinci would fit in to your Stereotype?

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"Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right"
Jerry Garcia

or Michaelangelo

All 3 of those categories strike me as liberal leaning. Where are the conservatives?

What is a "trivial liberal arts" education? What is "professionally educated?"

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First they came for the mimes, and I did not speak out, because I was a mime.

I've found that the area one is raised in, as well as the political views of parents seem to have the biggest influence on one's political outlook. One's "social role" can change many times throughout one's life while their political outlook remains consistent.

Btw, how am I supposed to take seriously an argument that presents Gandalf as one of society's players?

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First they came for the mimes, and I did not speak out, because I was a mime.

They're in the Men's Room having sex with strangers.................

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address

I forgot about that....

Why does this remind me of the Mac vs PC commercials....which then always remind me that I had to be forcibly restrained from throwing the first and last Mac I ever bought against the wall less than an hour after I bought it?

Oh, and lemme ask the OP, which one are you?

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IT'S ON YOUTUBE, IT MUST BE TRUE

It's telling that you have to go as far back as Michaelangelo or Da Vinci to find anything of real worth in the arts dep.

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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw

You're just mad cuz you're being left out. Come'er, and we can snuggle.

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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw

Macs Rule....

After a decade with PCs I moved 18 months ago... Will never go back... After about two weeks of getting used to it it is brilliant.. No virus checker is a massive bonus...

That original post is scary it is so wrong...

Artists we could consider... Bono, Regan, Bill Gates,.....

It is just trying to say these people are not like me and don't have the same views as me... Alot of people go through life not being concerned with deep thinking but very useful and fruitful lives... They might be smarter than the person spends all night considering the future of the world.

The artist comes up with the idea, the engineer comes up with a way to make it work.

Some people posses both skills (and they are very rare), but both are needed. You don't have to go back to find this out. It works like this even today.

Great Art is something proven by history. Van Gogh wasn't famous at all during his lifetime and yet is one of the most famous painters of all time now. I'm sure there were plenty of famous artists during their lives who noone knows their names except art historians. Fame is fickle that way.

I was listing one that even non art-historians would recognize.

Would you have preferred I say Michael Moore?