When all you have is a thesis,
everything looks like an argument. Which is to say, studying something very very closely will sometimes result in surprising insights. Of course, other times you will come to completely insane conclusions that no sane person would find persuasive; say, the theory that gay people threaten my and your marriage. (Okay, that was a misrepresentation. People who say that have not studied the issue closely at all.)
What is this guy talking about, you ask? First he's on about theses acting like hammes, then something about the gays, and now we're waist-deep in a thicket of self-referential onanism that would redden the face of David Eggers. If I'da wanted this kind of crazy today I'd have called up the Lyndon LaRouche hotline!
Well, here's the thing. NDR, also known as Nathaniel of Rhine River is writing his dissertation on, loosely speaking, issues of identity in the Rhine River region, which is neither specifically French nor German.
He finds some parallels between the American project in Iraq and France's integration of Rhenish peoples into France. To wit: Rhinelanders accepted France for the stability and infrastructure they lent, but still resented them for the supercilious frogs they were, so to speak. And this might be a sign of a healthy people.
Also, one of his bunnies recieved an unintended bris thanks to his other bunny. Weird.
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If the Iraqis ended up with
If the Iraqis ended up with that mindset, I'll take that as a win. So long as they internalize the goals of a free society, I don't care what else they think. Look at the French, they don't like us - for much the same reasons the Rhenish don't like them - yet they aren't going to blow up our shit.
Minor correction, sort of: I
Minor correction, sort of: I've never heard anyone argue that gay marriage threatens their marriage, but instead that it threatens the institution itself.
Don't know about that, but they might think there's a problem with an explosion of "gay cooties" which will decrease the likelihood of their children or grandchildren getting married.
And I don't know about that either, but to say it threatens existing marriages is clearly a bit over the top, and a real broke-dick way to start an argument, unless one's thesis is that they, themselves, are either insane or retarded.