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| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
thanks i know im no angel, but there are plenty of people on here i DO treat with respect, even (especially?) when they disagree with me. trancer, on the other hand, launches into arrogant juvenile condescension at the drop of a hat. you tell me from your experience in the PDD, does someone like renegade deserve that attack? im happy for it to be levelled at me 
never happen. i truly respect trancer's intellect, knowledge, and commitment, but most of his conclusions (or at least the more "alternative" ones) just do my head in. for someone that joined an EDM internet forum, he also puts the boot into people enjoying commercialism an awful lot. i dont know why he thinks the enjoyment he gets out of reading the latest book that catches his eye is inherently superior to the enjoyment i get out of a good PC game (forged alliance!) or television series (battlestar galatica!).
his past times are no more likely to change the world than mine are, which is the funniest part. right now i have the absolute freedom tp associate with whom i wish, see all the movies i choose to, read any book im interested in, get away with doing anything in my own house as long as im careful about it, travel where i wish, think what i want, express what i think and want, have had access to one of the strongest (formal) educations in the world, am free to own and use property, indulge in whatever music i choose to.
now, if none of ^^ that is a component of free choice and expression, then im not sure i give two shits about what "real" freedom is. |
"Real" freedom is a beautiful thing that starts with the individual and branches out into the collective.
If you think and believe that you've found it, rather than been given it, then perhaps indeed you have. That's all that counts, really.
Anyway, good response, I wish you all the best of course, and always am hoping for it. 
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