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We need a new masculinity. Can playing with fire and working with discipline be ethically sound parts of uniquely masculine values?

We need a new 1984: "WASTE IS GROWTH."

We need a new way of expressing ideas, one that does not think in subjective terms of "need" so much as objective terms of benefit and ethical legitimacy.

We need clarity, but don't look here.

We need a new social approach to logic (which is not to say we need to replace our current approach; we don't currently have one).

We need a new columnist in our college's newspaper, and I'm not biased at all.

We need a new definition of "independent," because the current definition apparently includes "owned by General Electric."

Either that, or a certification provided by the feds to newspapers that meets a strict legal definition of "independent," the logo of which can only be printed on those newspapers that actually have the certification.

I know, I know. Woah! That's dangerous! But it needn't necessarily be (and this is where I really start daydreaming) - a strict imposition of accessibility might be imposed on the language of the legal definition of "independent," as it applies to newspaper certifications. That is to say, such a certification and definition must be utterly transparent, such that the process can be scrutinized, and the public can hold the government accountable to its certification.

Well.

The funny thing about American politics is that extremists on the two major sides often demand a high level of awareness and activity from the citizenry.

Maybe we should worry about how to give ourselves that energy - not how to spend it when it doesn't exist. (Hm, speaking of American politics...)