On Jan 30, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Rick Castello wrote:
I actually agree with many of the Cato Institute's policies. I wouldn't be surprised if some people think of me as a social libertarian. I didn't mean those phrases to look defamatory, just repetitive, to get my point across. I was hoping for a few chuckles, really. Guess I failed in the message. Perhaps my mistake while watching P&T's show was in assuming that it included an attempt to gather data in an unbiased fashion. I realize now that they are actually just, um, having fun entertaining people with their show, and trying to spread their own gree-grees. At least they got me looking closely at the arguments for and against recycling, and investigation is a good thing. If P&T had been more clear up front, and told their audience that practically all their support for their argument against recycling were going to come from political policy institutes, I would feel less swindled in the end. The fact that I had to dig for their sources, and that they gathered those sources from a small bandpass in the political spectrum indicates to me that P&T knew what they doing, and didn't want the viewers to catch on before they were sucked in to P&T's meme. :-j |