David Brooks on Peggy Noonan on Politics

David Brooks writes that he agrees with Peggy Noonan about the boredom and lack of creativity of the current campaign for President. I guess that I agree with him, but a lot of creativity can turn into extremism. I believe that people are equal and that the most important thing for people to do is to respect that equality. People are only bad when they do not respect that equality. That makes me a liberal, as opposed to a conservative who talks about "excellence" and being "outwardly oriented" (which is actually a way of being self-oriented). Their goal is cruelty. Nevertheless, I feel that respect for the traditions of society are important for respecting the equality between people by lowering transaction costs and discouraging arrogance. I suppose that makes me a moderate, as opposed to either a liberal or conservative, if being moderate is included as a choice.
I would like to rant about time travel, because I really want to do it. However, that is GOD's choice.

Central Asia

Self-pitying clowns like Steve Sailer criticize Sascha Baron Cohen's Borat for confusing Eastern Europe with Central Asia. Firstly, there are many better reasons to criticize Borat. It is a film that delights in humiliation for no reason. Secondly, Central Asia is where Eastern Europe, South Asia, the Middle East and East Asia all blend into each other.

Left and Right

Both left and right can be foolish in that they can misinterpret texts, state incorrect facts, and have contradictory or inconsistent beliefs that go against each other. Nevertheless, I support the center-left because the right is entirely centered on bullying hierarchy instead of human freedom.
In any event, I will travel through time and become a real person. I will avoid sin. I will avoid scorn. I am not naif about the idea of meritocracy, but I would really rather not be where I am now.

My Life

My life is a bit of a wreck. I went to prep school and a well-respected college. I participated in academic competitions while at both, although I understood it as being silly. Eventually, I went to law school and graduated from law school instead of dropping out on the recommendation of my family while I would have preferred dropping out. After law school, I took a class on passing the bar exam. Nevertherless, I am still unemployable.
I used to read the blogs against legal education, but by now I have understood their main points and understand no reason to continue to read them. Anyway, I agree with their idea that (1) people should not go to law school unless they will attend one of the most respected law schools or they are confident in being able to get a job afterwards and (2) the structure of American legal education could easily be reformed. Nevertheless, I really disliked and dislike the intense resentment that goes with this. These people who made the bad decision to go to law school believe that they should not be responsible for their own bad decision and that other people should pay for the bad decision to go to law school. I accept that there should be claims for fraud, where one side lied etc., and that there is a human right to avoid the most dreadful poverty and to participate in economic progress. Nevertheless, I do not think there is a good reason to give people who are poor for one reason that does not involve somebody else making them poor by doing something inherently wrong, to have any more rights than people who are poor for another reason. In fact, if you read some of these anti-law school blogs, you would believe that somebody from a lower-middle-class family who is poor because she took out thousands of dollars of loans to go to law school, and then did not excel there, and so does not have a high-paying job, should be treated better than somebody whose mother died of an overdose, whose father was killed in prison, whose relatives were indifferent and had no money anyway to go to college, let alone law school, in the first place, even with loans. The entire idea is foolishness.
Nevertheless, I am confident that I will travel through time and be a good person. In late 2004, my life became characterized by sin by me and by scorn by others. In late 2004 I watched The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction, which I realize are movies from the 1990s, within a few days of each other. If I watch these films within a few days of each other, then I will be able to travel through time.

Political Moderation

Politically, I am moderate. I dislike the bossy, scolding political correctness of the left-wing. I dislike the hierarchical, but also self-pitying, self-regard of the right-wing (people one of whose first reactions to the massacre in Colorado is to worry that the government will take away their guns and Mitt Romney flattering their paranoid fantasies of being all that is between a world of serious civilization and Stalinism by condescendingly pronouncing that gun laws will not stop bad things! Bah!).

Time Travel

I am satisfied that my gibberish about traveling through time to when I was 18 years old or when I started college shortly after I turned 18 are unimportant. What is more important is my first "solitary vice," when I enjoyed my own company in a quasi-romantic way. If I focus on legal adulthood at the age of 18, I was in the middle of teen stupidity, which really began when I first started to enjoy myself in such a sinful way. Teen stupidity of arrogance has faded into adult stupidity of despair. Sin continues. I do not like to sin and I dod not like having sinned. I would like to travel through time.

Barack Obama and Civil Liberties

I have written this on earler, deleted posts, but I think that Barack Obama is not a bad President for civil liberties. He has supported the ability of people who are captives at Guantanamo Bay to challenge their captivity. People who have been accused of attempted terrorism domestically have gone through the regular process of being tried in regular courts. As far as the National Defense Authorization Act and its provision that people accused of terroristic activities can be held captives indefinitely, that eventually included a statement that it did not substantively change any law which may make the law more moderate, and the bill itself was not Obama's idea anyway.

Editing

I have deleted the posts that I had made on this blog, because I thought they were too ridiculous.