Comments on: A mind is a difficult thing to change–Part 6 B (After 9/11: war is interested in you) http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/26/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:28:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/26/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26/#comment-53440 Tom Grey - Liberty Dad Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:10:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26.html#comment-53440 I'm so glad you're back to this great Change series; the comments of 2 years ago -- many commenters gone, a few still around. I'm surprised I wan't here before, but I guess I was too busy with something else. How about that Iraq changing? I’m so glad you’re back to this great Change series; the comments of 2 years ago — many commenters gone, a few still around.

I’m surprised I wan’t here before, but I guess I was too busy with something else.

How about that Iraq changing?

]]> By: flwpc http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/26/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26/#comment-40440 flwpc Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:35:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26.html#comment-40440 Just discovered neo neocon and found it to be a refreshing, intelligent, and unbiased account of a political evolution. Beautifully written, as well. Not too different then my journey. But, I am a political science PhD. But what happened to the sequels to A Mind is A Difficult thing . . . . after VIB? Did you stop your journey? Just discovered neo neocon and found it to be a refreshing, intelligent, and unbiased account of a political evolution. Beautifully written, as well. Not too different then my journey. But, I am a political science PhD. But what happened to the sequels to A Mind is A Difficult thing . . . . after VIB? Did you stop your journey?

]]> By: Gary Anderson http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/26/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26/#comment-33597 Gary Anderson Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:15:37 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26.html#comment-33597 Time for another watershed. You were conned by the president. Iraq started long before 9/11 in the minds of Condi Rice, Cheney and Bush. Stealing oil was their goal. It is interesting to note the funny look the pres had on his face in the classroom on 9/11. It is not difficult to know that he wanted an event to happen to get us into Iraq. I am not saying he planned the event, but there is evidence that the admin looked the other way. But even if it was beyond their reach, the event of 9/11 allowed them to go into Iraq to steal oil. Sorry to disilusion you but the instincts of your family are right. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm Time for another watershed. You were conned by the president. Iraq started long before 9/11 in the minds of Condi Rice, Cheney and Bush. Stealing oil was their goal. It is interesting to note the funny look the pres had on his face in the classroom on 9/11. It is not difficult to know that he wanted an event to happen to get us into Iraq. I am not saying he planned the event, but there is evidence that the admin looked the other way.

But even if it was beyond their reach, the event of 9/11 allowed them to go into Iraq to steal oil. Sorry to disilusion you but the instincts of your family are right.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

]]> By: ginger http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/26/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26/#comment-29402 ginger Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:01:17 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26.html#comment-29402 A link at Instapundit lead me to your blog today. H/T and thanks to them. I have spent a few hours reading, comfortably, what seems to be nearly my own journey. Just a few short years younger than you, (I was in 6th grade when JFK was killed and a half hearted member of SDS in high school)all that you say, so much better than I could, is utterly familiar and I wonder in awe that I am not alone! Someone else has traveled this road, thinks like me, has changed like me. I often laugh and say my Granny...St. Beatrice the Democrat...is positively spinning even as I write this that I could ever, ever register as Republican...but then again, she was a very world smart woman and always called a spade a spade. She'd understand...and likely join me. Your blog is added to my 'required' reads and I look forward to further entries! A link at Instapundit lead me to your blog today. H/T and thanks to them. I have spent a few hours reading, comfortably, what seems to be nearly my own journey. Just a few short years younger than you, (I was in 6th grade when JFK was killed and a half hearted member of SDS in high school)all that you say, so much better than I could, is utterly familiar and I wonder in awe that I am not alone! Someone else has traveled this road, thinks like me, has changed like me. I often laugh and say my Granny…St. Beatrice the Democrat…is positively spinning even as I write this that I could ever, ever register as Republican…but then again, she was a very world smart woman and always called a spade a spade. She’d understand…and likely join me. Your blog is added to my ‘required’ reads and I look forward to further entries!

]]> By: knoxgirl http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/26/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26/#comment-9101 knoxgirl Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:51:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26.html#comment-9101 Neo-neocon:<BR/><BR/>Please ignore all the critical posts about your writing. Looking through these comments, I see I'm not the only one who is absolutely riveted by your "A Mind is..." installments. They are lightyears from boring!<BR/><BR/>Can't wait for the next one. Neo-neocon:

Please ignore all the critical posts about your writing. Looking through these comments, I see I’m not the only one who is absolutely riveted by your “A Mind is…” installments. They are lightyears from boring!

Can’t wait for the next one.

]]> By: Anonymous http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/26/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26/#comment-9102 Anonymous Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:51:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26.html#comment-9102 Neo-Con,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for sharing your story, and for standing up for your beliefs among all the hateful and blind liberals that surround you. I know it is not easy, but I know the difference you feel in day to day now, knowing what you do. Seeing what you do. And understanding what you do. So many live their lives in a bubble, and you popped it. Welcome to the true America, the free America. Neo-Con,

Thank you for sharing your story, and for standing up for your beliefs among all the hateful and blind liberals that surround you. I know it is not easy, but I know the difference you feel in day to day now, knowing what you do. Seeing what you do. And understanding what you do. So many live their lives in a bubble, and you popped it. Welcome to the true America, the free America.

]]> By: Kobayashi Maru http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/26/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26/#comment-9103 Kobayashi Maru Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:51:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26.html#comment-9103 Neo - Fabulous post. No two journeys are completely alike, but what I find most remarkable in yours is how an objective assessment of the predictive value of your sources led you to pay more attention to those sources and less to the ones that had failed you. I suspect that the vast majority of ideological journeys are not rational (even in hindsight) as the one you describe.<BR/><BR/>As your journey continues, I suspect that the name of your blog may become a bit of an albatross. Humans crave affiliative labels if only to know that 'team' to cheer for and who to instinctively oppose, but yours seems a much more nuanced and thoughtful approach. As a number of comments illustrate, such labels can all too easily become slogans devoid of meaning. Thank you for adding meaning and great intelligence to at least one. Neo – Fabulous post. No two journeys are completely alike, but what I find most remarkable in yours is how an objective assessment of the predictive value of your sources led you to pay more attention to those sources and less to the ones that had failed you. I suspect that the vast majority of ideological journeys are not rational (even in hindsight) as the one you describe.

As your journey continues, I suspect that the name of your blog may become a bit of an albatross. Humans crave affiliative labels if only to know that ‘team’ to cheer for and who to instinctively oppose, but yours seems a much more nuanced and thoughtful approach. As a number of comments illustrate, such labels can all too easily become slogans devoid of meaning. Thank you for adding meaning and great intelligence to at least one.

]]> By: saintknowitall http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/26/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26/#comment-9104 saintknowitall Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:51:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26.html#comment-9104 Dear Neo-neocon,<BR/>An absolutely outstanding series on your trip from the left's utopia. <BR/><BR/>Saint Dear Neo-neocon,
An absolutely outstanding series on your trip from the left’s utopia.

Saint

]]> By: saintknowitall http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/26/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26/#comment-9105 saintknowitall Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:51:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26.html#comment-9105 Van said<BR/>"I moved to the left for a variety of reasons, mainly because of the state of our economy and our corporate controlled government."<BR/><BR/>You speak of corporations as if they are people. They aren't. Corporations are run by people, who by coincidence are probably capitalists. I gather from your post that you are more of a socialist/communist. <BR/><BR/>I also gather from your post that your statement of "the state of the economy" you somehow mean the economy is bad. Either that or you don't like an economy based on capitalist principles.<BR/><BR/>In any event, you drift to the left indicates an inability to remember history, as we have seen any government drifting to the left as having increased economic/social problems. <BR/><BR/>No, Van, the answer is not increased government, it is decreased government.. And with decreased government, you wouldn't have to worry about the "corporate controlled" issue. Van said
“I moved to the left for a variety of reasons, mainly because of the state of our economy and our corporate controlled government.”

You speak of corporations as if they are people. They aren’t. Corporations are run by people, who by coincidence are probably capitalists. I gather from your post that you are more of a socialist/communist.

I also gather from your post that your statement of “the state of the economy” you somehow mean the economy is bad. Either that or you don’t like an economy based on capitalist principles.

In any event, you drift to the left indicates an inability to remember history, as we have seen any government drifting to the left as having increased economic/social problems.

No, Van, the answer is not increased government, it is decreased government.. And with decreased government, you wouldn’t have to worry about the “corporate controlled” issue.

]]> By: Van http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/26/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26/#comment-9106 Van Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:51:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/01/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part_26.html#comment-9106 For anyone who is interested in further discussing the efficiency of using conventional warfare to win the War On Terror, I posted my position on my blog - finally. You are welcome to join the discussion and post any comments. <BR/>Thank you Neo Neocon for starting this string. For anyone who is interested in further discussing the efficiency of using conventional warfare to win the War On Terror, I posted my position on my blog – finally. You are welcome to join the discussion and post any comments.
Thank you Neo Neocon for starting this string.

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