I had begun to write a substantial piece to serve as a retrospective on the recent passing of Proposition 8 in California, but after a long period of abandonment, I remembered Occam's Razor, a rule I frequently ignore and secretly deplore.

So, to summarize.

By taking the passage of Proposition 8 in California as a case study—in which Californians voted for both Barack Obama (a Muslim socialist should-be pariah, if the right-wing is to be believed) and to strip homosexuals of their right to marry—we can see that the repulsive overuse and misuse of the stereotypical terms “liberal” and “conservative” are powerful indicators that our ability to distinguish each other as something other than members of foolish short sighted categories concocted for our convenience in our supersaturated information age has been hopelessly squandered by our political commentators, who now lead the only significant public discourse in our nation while the rest of us buy into the mythos of a decentralized society that can't remember what its ass is supposed to do and plugs into the digital age without care for consequence or self-correction, only self-medication.

To summarize further.

Fuck the polis and the realpolitik.

To paraphrase the summary and add commentary.

The internet is the cancer that is killing the American political core.

So I'm a luddite. Who knew. To add critique to the commentary and extract meaning.

The internet can be nothing more than a symptom. The bigger picture shows cultural suicide, then, through hyperbole and domestic irrelevance to distract from global irrelevance.

To add concrete detail, just like public school taught me.

(this is where I quote Ann Coulter)

And, to conclude.

Black, white, shades of gray.

Occam anticipated our inability to pay attention for more than a line of reasonably formatted and sized text by over half a millennium. But that doesn't mean he has to be right.