![]() | On the heels of James Cameron's discovery of a tomb with the remains of Jesus came an announcement by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh that he had discovered a coffin with the remains of another historical character that many social scientists consider a mythical creature - the Rugged Individual. But while Mr. Cameron's findings strike at the heart of the basic tenets of backward-looking Christianity, Mr. Limbaugh's discovery is meant to strike at the very heart of progressive faith that denies the existence of a self-sufficient Individual who can survive without the government handouts, regulations, and oversight. |
"Assertion that the so-called Rugged Individual could exist on the West Coast or anywhere else in America - independently of the government, without health insurance, minimum wage regulations, FDA standards, and union protection - is a ridiculous and unscientific invention," says Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus in the Political Science Department at Boston University. "Everybody knows that Rugged Individuals never lived in that area, and that pioneers who settled in California were all collectivist hippies who lived in communes, received welfare checks, and worshipped the Common Good™."
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Limbaugh insists that he is not a revisionist historian; he is only reporting facts. "It's a fact that the Rugged Individual once lived in America and settled the West," the controversial commentator said. "He used to be free and morally upright. He spoke his mind without fear of persecution. He ran his own business the way he saw fit. He raised his own children according to his own values. He owned property that he earned with his own hands, and he used a gun to protect that property from thieves. These are facts. So what I'm saying is, hey, world, pay attention. First let's discuss the facts and then let's see their implications on progressive ideology."
Social scientists are widely and roundly rejecting these claims. Some are dismissing them as a ploy backed by corporations to pervert the truth. "The whole progressive movement has faced this since the day Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto," writes one scholar in a letter to San Francisco Chronicle. "Limbaugh needs to go back to college and take a standard course in political science," writes another scholar. "Our whole philosophy is based on the impossibility of Rugged Individualism. I have no plans to give this discovery any publicity within the walls of my college."
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Others compared Limbaugh's findings to the one made by James Cameron in Jerusalem: "At least the discovery of the Christ family bears all marks of scientific proof - the inscriptions of the names that match the bones of Jesus, Mary, their son Judas, and their dog Snowball, which many scientists agree was a common dog name in Judea at the time. In contrast, Limbaugh's alleged finding is a blatant attempt to cash in on a sensationalist bandwagon."
Yet another group of scholars, while not denying the existence of the remains, were quick to search the local archives for documents proving that the cost for Rugged Individual's burial had been subsidized by the government, and that in his early twenties he had received a welfare check for three weeks while being unemployed.
News networks also maintained a level of skepticism. Over on CNN, Lou Dobbs prefaced a segment on the subject by observing, "If these claims are true, and many people doubt they are, that raises questions about the progressive assertion that Rugged Individualism is a capitalist myth and that the only moral way for humans to exist is by abandoning private property, sacrificing personal interests to the Common Good™, and living off kind handouts from the benevolent central government.
Personally I like the utopian blueprints better."
The final word in this debate belongs to the former Vice President Al Gore who said, "The main function of the government is to reduce every person's footprint on this planet. So even if the Rugged Individual existed he should've been wiped out anyway, for the sake of saving the planet."

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As our Green fellow travelers like to say, "The debate is over."
Red Square
Why start the debate unless you doubt (or maybe even DENY) the findings of progressive science? Are you a DENIER?bohemianlikeyou
Comrade Bell,
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Native American peoples did NOT make war with one another. They lived in peace amongst themselves and in harmony with nature.

bohemianlikeyou
Comrade Bell,
Red Square
Comrade B. Brown -bohemianlikeyou
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People can't do anything on their own without the State. Never have, never will.Sister Massively Opiated
Handi-capable Party members everywhere weep as one of our most useful modes of transportation becomes politically incorrect, and we must look forward to taking our tricycles out of storage, with their silly baskets, little vinyl flags on thin plastic poles and personalized miniature licence plates with stupid things written on them (or our names - even worse - as if we have to announce who we are, or perhaps, in case we get lost and forget it ourselves), not to mention the Harpo bicycle horn and vinyl handle-bar cover tassles... There's just no dignity left for the disabled any more...RedtheProgressiveHedgehog
Sister Massively Opiated
Handi-capable Party members everywhere weep as one of our most useful modes of transportation becomes politically incorrect, and we must look forward to taking our tricycles out of storage, with their silly baskets, little vinyl flags on thin plastic poles and personalized miniature licence plates with stupid things written on them (or our names - even worse - as if we have to announce who we are, or perhaps, in case we get lost and forget it ourselves), not to mention the Harpo bicycle horn and vinyl handle-bar cover tassles... There's just no dignity left for the disabled any more...Blue Bell
Did Rush Limbaugh mention that, in his trek across the plains to California, whether or not he found any tangible, physical, archaeological, and forensic evidence of those “rugged individuals”… the Native American Indians? You know… the original native inhabitants of America whose lands were stolen… those forgotten people who were slaughtered by the real American heroes(?), i.e., George Custer, whose “knees” were “wounded” in the process of his Manifest Destiny.Sister Massively Opiated
Oh for goodness sake Hedgehog... SMO is handi-capable herself... Get with the programme! No... I mean literally... there is a programme in every nightstand describing each of us... as you can see, I'm a cripple... you think I want to give up my scooter?RedtheProgressiveHedgehog
Segways!? All the sudden the phrase "White and Nerdy" comes to mind (execpt that I am the color red). I understand your desire for eleminating the carbon footprint that will result in the end of the world in the next 6 months, and how we all need to shave our heads, sit in sackcloth, and throw ashes on ourselves, greived for building the most advanced society on earth. But some of us need to keep up our image for the party. Me looking cool in my corvette will inspire others to join the revolution. But not to worry, I shall take my car to a certified Peoples Mechanic, and get the engine overhauled so that it can run on Magic Pixie Juice.
RedtheProgressiveHedgehog
Sadly though, the greatest threat to them is their other parental unit. My wife/partner unit/robot was programmed too much like a female hedgehog so that at times of stress she starts to want to eat the children (and human men complain about their union partners!) She/It is currently at another residence at tax payers’ expense.Chairman M. S. Punchenko
NO ONE IS TAKING MY LIMO AWAY FROM ME, OR MY JET, OR MY YACHT, OR MY PROLE-POWERED CARRIAGE, OR MY STRETCH OIL REFINING HUMMER (Gift from Ka-Ching).
Red Square
An alternative solution had been proposed in one of the first Truth declarations on the Cube:
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