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Published Mon, Aug 6 2007 11:50 PM
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I hear a lot of young people today expressing the need to change the world. When I was young I wanted to change the world, and I knew a lot of people that wanted to do it too. I read about journalists getting into the profession so they can change the world.

I have to wonder about that. If my generation changed the world, and the younger generation wants to change the world, how do they want to change it and why? Do they want to change it back? Did we not change it far enough? Did my generation screw it up? Do they want to screw it up?

Maybe it's just the age-old conflict between youth and ignorant idealism vs. age and "the system". Still, it seems to me that yesterday's progressives and today's progressives are all progressing in the same direction.

The problems we faced when I was younger are exactly the same as the problems we face today. "The beards have all grown longer overnight." The names on the bumper stickers have changed, but the themes haven't. Heck, some of the bumper stickers haven't changed in all that time.

"Free Tibet" says the bumper sticker on the car of a friend of mine. From what? And how does a bumper sticker like that help? Or is it just another spam offer? "Free Tibet. Get your's now!"

But seriously, how does buying a bumper sticker and displaying it on your car here help to free Tibet from Chinese rule? How likely is it that the Chinese communist party leaders are going to see that bumper sticker? And if they do, how likely is it to move them?

Forty years of "progressives" and there hasn't been much "progress". Maybe that's because a lot of the support for the progressive movement is really just an illusion.

Trust me. That's a good thing.

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Proud to be non-union!

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Published Mon, Aug 6 2007 1:46 PM
Technorati Tags: Blogging, Liberals, Conservatives, Media

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"A loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union". Who else but left-leaning people would bother with something like that these days?  From Business Week:

Do bloggers need their own Norma Rae?

In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional standards.

Collective bargaining for bloggers? Give me a break. Collective bargaining for what? More bandwidth? An increased rate of (non-existent) pay? The right to a 40 hour blogging week? Overtime?

Organizers hope a bloggers' labor group will not only showcase the growing professionalism of the Web-based writers, but also the importance of their roles in candidates' campaigns.

The importance of their roles? It seems to me that some people are taking themselves way too seriously. Most bloggers, myself included don't have near the reach or influence that they'd like to think they do. Very few are pundits worthy of respect, but somehow just because they write a blog they get the impression that they have become important.

Unsurprisingly, there's decidedly less support for a union movement among conservative bloggers.

I just don't understand some people, especially liberals. Well, maybe I do after all

"I think people have just gotten to the point where people outside the blogosphere understand the value of what it is that we do on the progressive side," said Susie Madrak, the author of Suburban Guerilla blog, who is active in the union campaign. "And I think they feel a little more entitled to ask for something now."

There you have it. That's the reason why left-leaning bloggers might be interested in a union, and why right-leaning bloggers wouldn't. "I think they feel a little more entitled". Once again it's the attitude that they're owed something by others.

Ultimately it's this attitude that I think will spell the downfall of liberalism. One day the massive entitlement culture will collapse of its own weight. When everyone is entitled to the fruits of the labor of others then no one will labor.

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