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Talking about it isn’t advocating it
Opening up your aboriginal mind
By James Giago Davies
Iyeska Journal

Time and again I use sarcasm or satire to drive home a point, and then I am quoted out of context as advocating such. Maybe if in my recent spoof of Rapid City Mayor Allender, I had had him riding a pet dragon or something, people would have realized I was joking. Problem is people too often mistake talking about something as advocating that something.

Wise men long in their grave took the time to write about this problem, and I can quote some of these famous thinkers, but it won’t really matter. Because the very people who need to read this column, have already stopped reading it, if they ever started, and even if they are reading it, and read this quote, it won’t register; they can reconcile it away, easy as pie, so they can go right on thinking the hateful thing that pleases them.

But here it is the quote anyway: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

Aristotle wrote that a long time ago, in a country far, far away.

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