Cap’n Mal on elections
November 5, 2008 – 9:23 pm by JohnI think a lot about my friends’ perceptions of my somewhat-anti-voting and voting for “nobody” mentality. I don’t talk about it much because, in all honesty, from what I’ve observed of their discussions amongst themselves, the extent of their understanding of political philosophy is “anti-Democrat = neocon Republican.”
So I imagine they would group me, along with the McCain voters and others, into the group that was on the “wrong” side of the election and therefore the “wrong” side of history. Or maybe they wouldn’t actually use the word “wrong,” but I like to imagine that they would because then I could bust out this quote from Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the Firefly episode “Bushwhacked”: after the Alliance officer says, “Seems odd you’d name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of,” Mal responds, “May have been the losing side…still not convinced it was the wrong one.”
The episode and the quote have nothing to do with elections, but I like applying it to this one and all things political. I am almost always on the losing side, but I’ve never been convinced it was the wrong one.
If you haven’t seen Firefly, get it for yourself or your significant other this holiday season and watch the whole series in about four or five days like I did. It will be the best gift you give or receive this year, I guarantee it.