Is Shrillness a Crime?
April 27th, 2008 — LiamAnd should it be? Or, shouldn’t it at least be discouraged?
Shrillness - the inability to speak without shouting,
….to share an opinion without mocking another’s opinion;
…to converse without sonic bombast intent on driving and drowning out any and all subtle thought from a room.
You may not know that it is possible to be in the public eye, and not be shrill. In fact, it seems that shrillness is “in,” these days.
Why are some people shrill?
What is the cause of shrillness?
Is it insecurity?
Is it the total psychological toll of living under immense, self-imposed stress?
For tolerating (and creating) circumstances that cause one’s soul to die…
…and yet clinging to those circumstances, for the material rewards they may give?
Is it a sign of some deeply-disturbed fabric in the psyche?
Doesn’t it make you tired?
Worn out?
A shell of a person?
It’s just a question.
Actually, it’s a little more than that.
It’s really a selfish desire on my part.
You see, I’ve been unable to listen to, to even tolerate the voice of…oh, it’s hard to say… the leader… of my country, for the past eight years…
…and I was really hoping,
hoping,
for a break.
Because four…or eight more years of a leader who seems…
And I might start feeling that way myself.
So, I’ll have to say “No” (in a moderate voice) to Hillary, for the sake of good conversational etiquette.
In sum, I’ll take John-boy or Barry, doesn’t matter which.
At least they both can hold a decent conversation…
…and each seems to know how to talk without screaming…
…and can speak their own ideas,
without needing to drown out those of anyone,
and everyone, else.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
OUCH!
April 27th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Got to agree with you about not being able to listen to some people speak. It’s not the tone or tenor of their voices. It’s the fact that everything they’re saying is aboslute bullshit, and they know it.
For your own sanity, I suggest that you get used to the idea of President Hillary Clinton.
Where did that Hillary-Clockwork Orange graphic come from? On the mark!
Dear God, how did we get to this place in America?
April 27th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Very good Liam, I am following your election specials from here and enjoy reading them. Dan, I disagree, I do not believe Hillbillaary ( al Liam calls her) can win. I am pretty sure she will not. The maths says she can’t anyway, and in the end that’s what matters and not the media hype about having your first woman (even if she is butcher than John Wayne) presi.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Manu,
the math has nothing to do with it.
Howard Dean has been softening up the Democrats for a Hillary nomination by reminding them that the superdelegates can go with the candidiate they think will win and “override the will of the people (the “math”, in other words).
Obama can’t reach the necessary number of delegates for the party nomination. Therefore, it will be up to the superdelegates to decide between him and Hillary. I predict the nomination will go to Hillary.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Update: Now Howard Dean is saying that one of the candidates must drop out of the race by June.
Does anybody in their right mind think that Hillary will be the one to do so?
April 28th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Yeah… I know what you mean…
Here’s hoping Barry finds some extra steely cajones. If he holds tight… well… his chances improve.