It has been, years? Many years? But it seems that the reign of terror is over and intellectual discourse of higher level than "what is your favorite crosshair" is finally allowed again and the dumbing down of the gaming community is over. But please, the occasional conspiracy nut residing here can spare me his theories on how Bush is dumbing down Americans, that is not what I meant.

Good to see that the forum base is still composed of the same European unintellectual social-liberal emo with the contrast of a few average Americans (lub u smallerthantree[is it still bugged?]). In my time away I have trained my forum-fu atop many forum-mountains and have now returned to my origins.

I'd prefer a philosophical forum as metaphysics are more interesting than human affairs but lets talk politics then, and instead of talking about the usual things that get shoved in your face on a daily basis("iraq is wrong!" "guns are evil!" "drugs are evil!" "religion is evil!" "global warming is fake!" etc.) lets try to talk about something different like social justice and the modern mediocracy.
Never heard of them? Thats what you get for being a gaming idiot, well, I'll explain them and proceed to expose why exactly you and your beliefs suck.

Social justice should be familiar to anyone with English as their mother-tongue, basically its one of those crazy lefty(most likely anyone who's flag lacks stars and stripes belongs to this group here) idea that because people are not equal they can't just be equal in front of the law, like those greedy capitalists want, but some people should be supported more than others to equalize things, yay!
Check it on Wikipedia if you want a more lefty friendly description, but Wikipedia is just a hypocritical organization monopolizing truth.
Mediocracy is well defined by Fabio Tassano, who I think invented the word: "'mediocracy' is a condition in which culture is subordinated to pseudo-egalitarian ideology. Symptoms include: dumbing, jargonism, infantilisation, vacuity, phoney democratisation and authoritarianism.
A key weapon of the mediocratic agenda is the Orwellian redefinition of words and ideas. "

Dumbing down is not done by the NWO up on some ivory tower but you're doing it to yourself and society is doing it to itself. Before the Americans start commending me for going after those darned commies I warn you that mediocratic thought is not confined to the left at all and is just as more present on the right side of the political spectrum. If you're still sucking your thumb about the definition I'll break it down for you:
Pseudo-egalitarian = People being equal is not important, but people seeming equal is.
Jargonism = People are obsessed with jargon and formalism at the cost of meaningful content.
Infantilisation = The adoption, by adults or mature adolescents, of iconography that is, or was initially, intended for children.
Vacuity = Feel free to use the dictionary, it's a normal word.
Phoney democratisation = Anti-individualism.
Authoritarianism = If this is unfamiliar to you I suggest you stop discussing politics.

So why do the people of this forum want the government to do everything for them and have a meaningless, predefined but easy life?
"In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way." -Celia Green
Discuss. (Before I get banned for some weird reason, preferably.)

omg its my fav finnish flamer

by the way since i havent been banned from the new site yet, i guess you wont be either :>

what would you have done to get banned. since v4.0 you are way too nice to people ;)

true, its really gay

and i know who to blame for it :>

girls :P

Is the politics forum purely populated by trolls? Or is it just too early?
No matter, it is a win-win situation.

Hadn't the time to read it all, and no time to argue much.
I would go for a meritocracy, which seems to me (at least in theory) the best system of government. But I have some feelings you'll say my answer is dumb.

Meritocracy isn't much of a system of government, it is a pretty broad idea. Meritocracy is good but it doesn't define your government.

isn't it utopian?

What is utopian? Mediocracy? It's a dystopia and its real.

for someone who claims to be omnisavant you might want to brush up on your English :)

Omnisavant? Maybe savant, but I'm finite just like you are, I just don't take it up the ass and be a humble member of society doing what the society tells him to do.

no youre being a teenager :)

but its all good, anyone who gets offended by you makes the mistake to take you serious

"In my time away I have trained my forum-fu atop many forum-mountains and have now returned to my origins."

I nearly soiled myself at that, nice humor that :)

the same European unintellectual social-liberal emo!

HAHA