1. Fluffy is not just charting the course of lesser resistance, but charting the course of lesser resistance is part of the recipe. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
2. Fluffy is not synonymous with pseudo-intellectualism, but pseudo-intellectualism is part of the recipe. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
3. Fluffy is not synonymous with pseudo-sophistication, but pseudo-sophistication is part of the recipe. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
4. Fluffy is not synonymous with moral superiority, but moral superiority is part of the recipe. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
5. Fluffy is not merely superficiality over substance, but superficiality over substance is part of the recipe. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
6. Humans generally balance sentiment and reason. The fluffy mind automatically rejects reason for sentiment. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
7. Fluffy per se is not trendy, it is a long-term pattern. Fluffmeisters are however, reflexively trendy. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
8. Before Hitler conquered Europe through brute force, he conquered the hearts and minds of his countrymen with a steady barrage of fluff. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
9. My first crisis of perspective hit in late adolescence when I realized that not everyone shared my passion for truth. Soon I would learn that veriphiles are a distinct minority. Years later, that discovery still frustrates me. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
10. Forget all those fancy personality tests. Do you really have to answer 20 questions to find out if you are introverted? The only important variable is comfort vs. truth and yes, the fluffy will cluster at the comfort pole. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
11. Fluff follows fear, most often fear of disapproval. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
12. The problem with rooting for the underdog is that usually the underdog has attained his status from sloth, bad habits, and failure to prepare. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
13. Social development is a fancy term for popularity. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
14. Capitalism is humanity's greatest social institution. Capitalism abolishes famine. It allows its poorest citizens to live more comfortably than yesterday's kings and queens. For that matter it allows house pets to receive better health care than foregone aristocracies. It makes poor nations rich so long as they stay the course. No other system, organization or institution does a better job of helping more people most of the time than capitalism.
Unfortunately, capitalism has one glaring weakness, one elephantine Achilles Heel. Capitalism cannot render itself fluffy. Thus, capitalism will never be embraced by fluffy minds. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
15. Capitalism's grossest failure is the journalistic industry. The profession is premised on integrity, courage and pertinence. Despite show biz salaries and a competitive marketplace, the industry fails to deliver any of these things. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
16. Journalists are the seraphim of fluff. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
17. Laziness is a universal media bias. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
18. Bias against complexity--usually resulting in simplism rather than simplicity--is a universal media bias. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
19. Bias against resistance is a universal media bias. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
20. Bias for consensus is a universal media bias. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
21. The difference between simple and simplistic is the difference between wisdom and folly. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
22. An oversized heart does not compensate for a lazy brain. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
23. A politician ignorant of the rudiments of economics is as dangerous as a jet pilot unaware of the law of gravity. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
24. Eclecticism is the only enemy of religion. Persecution, discrimination, oppression, illiteracy, literacy, war and famine served to make religion stronger. Even the much-vaulted secularism could never empty the churches. But when people work and mingle with people of many faiths or zero faith or sporadic faith and they do not necessarily find virtue correlating with certain spiritual brand names...religion as we once knew it is forever diminished. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
25. The bias against corporal punishment is not rational and it is not high-minded or morally superior but it is fluffy. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
26. The silliest proclamation in this age of nonsense is "I don't judge anyone." From the time we look up from our crib until the time we look out from our deathbed, we are assessing, evaluating, comparing and contrasting everyone we see and hear. Only the dead have stopped judging. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
27. She said with no hint of irony that gay people have high rates of depression, drug abuse, and suicide. I said that was unfortunate and probably avoidable but I challenged the idea of referring to suicidal depressives as "gay." It was a frustrating evening. I was called intolerant, old fashioned and a person whose name you would recognize, flat out called me a bigot. I might have won the semantic battle but I lost the room in the process. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
28. Semantics cannot be fluffy. Thus, semantics is a woefully unpopular subject. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
29. If you want to learn psychology, study economics. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
30. Fluffy eclipses matters great and small, universal and parochial, abstract and concrete. Politicians love monetary inflation because it makes citizens feel rich even as their wealth shrinks. Yes, the fluffy mind endorses fiat currency even if he doesn't understand it. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
31. As surely as capitalism will be rejected by fluffy minds, collectivism in all its myriad labels will be embraced by fluffmeisters. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
32. Collectivism is collectivism is collectivism. Communism, Nazism, Fascism, Socialism, et al, are brand names of suicide pills with a common active ingredient. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
33. Madison Avenue is not fluffy but they peddle fluff like a Goldstein selling hams at Easter. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
34. Fluff never sleeps. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
35.. Should you want to assemble an army of thugs, bullies, tyrants and larcenists, recruit people who frequently use the words 'fair' and 'fairness'. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
36. Bureaucracy is inherently fluffy in its inception, its implementation, and its evolution. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
37. Richard Nixon was America's first opinion poll president.
38. If through some tweak of fate, America starting worshiping Greek gods, Zeus and Aphrodite and Apollo would be upstaged by Mallow, the goddess of fluff. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
39. Socially-sanctioned cliches are the lifeblood of fluff. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
40. The inventive fluffmeister can transform cliches into chants and chants into slogans. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
41 Better:When an idea is rejected or discredited, the fluffy mind does not modify the idea, it changes the label. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
42. Fluff enhances ardor by silencing doubt. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
43. Never, ever, underestimate the zeal of the fluffy. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
44: Spend time on a college campus these days and it is hard to imagine that academics, steeped in the wisdom of the ages, once provided an anchor against intellectual trendiness and overt silliness. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
45. Favoritism is the grandfather of all isms. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
46. . Fluffy people curse the candles. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
47. Fascism did not die with Mussolini. No, it wrapped itself in velvet and lives happily ever after. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
48. Before challenging dumb, we must first conquer numb. James Joseph, "The Fluffy Manifesto"
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