Quotes: Agree or Disagree II

Bond · 07-14-2007, 11:07 PM

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Agree or disagree?

Typhoid · 07-15-2007, 02:13 AM

I'd say agree - but only in the eyes of the TV.
You can be whatever you are, or want to be - but the media will always find a way to lump it together to simplify for the masses.

Dylflon · 07-15-2007, 03:19 AM

Disagree.

It is upon the average person to make up their own minds about matters. It's just an unfortunate case that most people are really dumb and have a "you believe it all or you don't believe any of it" mentality. This is why I believe that being a Republican and religion go hand in hand a lot.

Professor S · 07-15-2007, 12:44 PM

Disagree.

If you rely on television for all of your ideas, you're just ignorant. Question everything, from total free market corporate control to global warming and social programs.

Odds are, if someone wants to "take care of you", they are only taking care of themselves.

KillerGremlin · 07-16-2007, 12:51 PM

disagree

I watch enough TV during the 9 months at college to call myself a frequent viewer. I'm both liberal and conservative depending on the issue at hand. For the sake of say Fox news, they don't like to blend the two, but no one can possibly have an all-liberal or all-conservative bias.