A stopped clock can be right, but what if…, by Seamus Subscribe to rss feed for Seamus

Warning this is a highly oppinionated piece that trashes
just about all of the political parties, a note though, this
essay refers to the politicians of the parties, not so much
the people who support the parties.  Enjoy!	

      Someone once said, “Even a stopped clock is right
twice a day.”  A truly philosophical statement, it makes
sense that even if someone is completely devoid of knowledge
and talent: they will have at least one valuable
contribution to humanity even if only by accident.  Of
course by accident, I mean a mistake that removes them from
the gene pool.  This gives rise to another philosophical
question: what if someone isn’t a “stopped clock”, but
rather is a clock that is off by five hours, seventeen
minutes, and twenty-three seconds, or some other arbitrary
amount of time.  
	Most people would agree with the meaning of the first
statement, that everyone is correct at least once, and they
would argue that because so many people agree with them they
must be right.  Of course, they fail to take into account
that countless times over the course of history it has been
shown that the masses are invariably wrong, and that in
large numbers people are incredibly stupid.  It is because
of the masses, standing in the way of the oncoming pendulum,
that the clock of human progress often comes to a screeching
halt.   I see the world in a different light.  In my world,
unfortunately, there are few stopped clocks, but there is a
plethora of inaccurate clocks.  The main advantage of my
view of the world is that because most people are idiots I
have a bountiful supply of insults that those I dislike
can‘t hope to understand.  This leads me to the group that
draws the majority of my contempt, the government.  
	Now this may come as a shock, but the government actually
uses a lot of my ideas, they even have a special term for
it, politics.   While their emasculated version of my
methods may seem fun, I have a better way.  Instead of
calling those who disagree with me idiots, I go a step
further and call all politicians and most of those who
disagree with me, incompetent.  In doing so I’ve realized
what few others have, that all of the different parties are
worthless.  When you think about it, the Republicans have a
monopoly on rule by fools, Democrats, disappointingly devoid
of any semblance of intelligence, and Independents,
they’re the little jesters, amusing but not all that
bright.  Our country’s leadership is composed of the
inept, the ignorant, and the clocks that read 2:17:23 PM at
9 o’clock in the morning.  My fellow citizens love it. 
Posted: 2005-12-13 05:57:15 UTC

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2005-12-20 11:41:33abs
intresting point of view, and original analogy (stopped/inaccurate clock)i think that it is unfair to call the masses 'idiots', as well as the goverment. although i agree the goverment do not always seem to act in our best intrests, we are all too often ignorant of info the goverment decides to keep from the public so we can never really make a fair judgement....