Starting this morning I started believing this one thing that the Unabomber said in his manifesto.

[LoZoccolo]

No, not that he thinks it's OK to send bombs in the mail; that's just silly and he's in jail and nobody joined his movement anyways. What I'm talking about is his notion of a "surrogate activity" that he mentions in Industrial Society and Its Future:

We use the term "surrogate activity" to designate an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the sake of the "fulfillment" that they get from pursuing the goal. Here is a rule of thumb for the identification of surrogate activities. Given a person who devotes much time and energy to the pursuit of goal X, ask yourself this: If he had to devote most of his time and energy to satisfying his biological needs, and if that effort required him to use his physical and mental facilities in a varied and interesting way, would he feel seriously deprived because he did not attain goal X? If the answer is no, then the person's pursuit of a goal X is a surrogate activity.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future

Now the reason I am thinking about this is that I think that going on DU and complaining these last eight years has become sort of "fun" for these people, and has gradually become a surrogate activity to be pursued in and of itself for satisfaction. This sucks because people are going to find reasons to complain about Obama not because things are bad enough to complain about, but because the activity itself is satisfying.

And that's gonna suck.

[Why Syzygy]

1. Not bad enough to complain about.

Ses you. Why are you here? Is this necessary to your biological life?

[leftstreet]

2. Rick Warren Situation Dire: When DUers start quoting the Unabomber

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Sorry, it just struck me funny.

[LoZoccolo]

4. Sorry, I messed up; response #3 is for you. n/t

[LoZoccolo]

3. This is bigger than the Rick Warren controversy.

Years ago a conservative on a rival board which we're not allowed to name (silly) made the point that the Internet was a giant liberal pacification device, and that when "moonbats" (his term, not mine) got together in the past, they'd actually do something, but we weren't doing anything. I posted here that I agreed with that viewpoint and a bunch of people got pissed.

[boppers]

5. 9/11 truthers.

Chemtrails
Flouride
BFEE
Area 51
GMO
Nuclear Energy

Yes, some folks are more tied to an "issue" than anything else. It's not just the Left. For Example, the Right has:
Homosexual "agenda"
Welfare exploitation
Abortion
"Godlessness"

It's a human problem, the dedication towards issue advocacy.

[Rydz777]

6. I spend most of my time

involved in surrogate activities. They help get me through the day.

[joshcryer]

7. You don't need the unibomber for that.

It's just common sense. DU is a consumer outlet.