tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5469884319928758749..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: How the Left Ruins the CosmosGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45318299716905754732010-05-04T08:59:04.417-07:002010-05-04T08:59:04.417-07:00See also Sowell today on Race and resentment.See also Sowell today on <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/04/race_and_resentment_105419.html" rel="nofollow">Race and resentment</a>.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52171932651720132422010-05-04T08:05:50.897-07:002010-05-04T08:05:50.897-07:00The key word there, though, is "scapegoat&quo...The key word there, though, is "scapegoat" - as in, it's not so much the Western White Male as it is simply the dominant focus of power in the West. In other places, it was something or someone else, whoever held the reigns of power that the envious wanted to see brought down. <br /><br />To get caught up in the cosmetics is to lose sight of the big picture.<br /><br />Really, what they hate is Judeo-Christian values, which are antithetical to everything they want. Since those were most effectively spread and utilized by White Western Males, that's what appears to be the focus of attack. <br /><br />Given that much of the attack also comes straight from Western White Males, however, it seems to me there's a little more going on there. If you're the "right kind" of White Western Male (Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, George Soros), not only do you get a pass for pale skin and a set of testes, you're practically elevated to high priesthood.<br /><br />Ultimately, it's about power and control. Same as it ever was. <br /><br />Pay no attention to the big scary face giving orders; it's the little douchebag behind the screen you have to watch out for.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88960485291148671332010-05-04T05:57:20.366-07:002010-05-04T05:57:20.366-07:00Bh said “Well, I hear what you're saying. Perh...Bh said “Well, I hear what you're saying. Perhaps the left is scapegoating the Caucasian male without just cause.”<br /><br />Scapegoating is sufficient, if there were ‘just cause’, it wouldn’t be scapegoating – it’s a pretext, and one extremely useful and easy one to hang on them as a way of distracting from their attack on the west... but it’s sort of like telling someone “Oh I’m not punching <i>you</i> in the face, oh no, it’s your mustache... <i>hateful</i> thing that it is, it must be done, you just go about your business while I take care of this thing for you... now hold still....”<br /><br />“This power transfer is partly completed and is an adjustment that began with the writing of "Jane Eyre" in the late 19th century. That novel is the epicenter of gigantic, oceanic societal changes revolving around who shall be in control of the home, and of the business, worlds.”<br /><br />While Bronte was one of the early entries to become popular in fiction with the attack, it wasn’t the beginning, only an echo, look to Rousseau, particularly his <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5427/pg5427.html" rel="nofollow">Emile</a> for that, in many more ways than one, he taught them all how the deed was to be done – it is also the <a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/rousseau/#SH5a" rel="nofollow">explanation</a> for why the Western White Male hasn’t fought back. 'He' was taught that all he believed and stood for, was wrong and depraved - and nearly every school in the west is still teaching that same lesson.<br /><br />Now class, just hold still while Rousseau punches your mustache again....Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52511871188239380582010-05-04T04:27:36.923-07:002010-05-04T04:27:36.923-07:00black hole is onto something that i think's an...black hole is onto something that i think's an undermentioned point:<br /><br />''the entire leftist agenda is driven by the desire to dispempower the Caucasian male. That's the main driver of the whole edifice''<br />--sure feels that way, so nutty! and the world will regret it someday<br /><br />sometimes i wish Limbaugh would emphasize this more'n he doesgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53863097396144270742010-05-03T20:59:14.236-07:002010-05-03T20:59:14.236-07:00Van:
Well, I hear what you're saying. Perhap...Van:<br /><br />Well, I hear what you're saying. Perhaps the left is scapegoating the Caucasian male without just cause.<br /><br />Even so, I do believe at its heart the entire leftist agenda is driven by the desire to dispempower the Caucasian male. That's the main driver of the whole edifice.<br /><br />They'll go after his guns, his money, his political clout, and anything else he's held sway over all these years.<br /><br />The desire is to place all power in brown, female, or LBGT hands, either directly or indirectly.<br /><br />This power transfer is partly completed and is an adjustment that began with the writing of "Jane Eyre" in the late 19th century. That novel is the epicenter of gigantic, oceanic societal changes revolving around who shall be in control of the home, and of the business, worlds.<br /><br />For some reason the Caucasian male did not defend his position at the top of the social pyramid so other forces are glad to step up and knock him all the way off of the hill.black holehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366633817665791528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57971017057740011692010-05-03T20:53:31.011-07:002010-05-03T20:53:31.011-07:00Unfortunately back on topic, Pomo Science.Unfortunately back on topic, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/postmodernism_a_unified_theory.html" rel="nofollow">Pomo Science</a>.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82978812212611604422010-05-03T20:36:08.031-07:002010-05-03T20:36:08.031-07:00Off topic, has anybody heard from Dupree lately? J...Off topic, has anybody heard from Dupree lately? <a href="http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/04/29/%E2%80%98orangutan-sized%E2%80%99-raccoons-invade-chicago/" rel="nofollow">Just wondering...</a>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-83705651353350674892010-05-03T18:43:35.414-07:002010-05-03T18:43:35.414-07:00bh said "One reason the Left is contradictory...bh said "One reason the Left is contradictory is because it is reactionary, not original. It is a response to 19th century patriarchism and materialism."<br /><br />B.S. The left is reactionary as a result of abandoning Ideas and reality in favor of positions and assertions - having done so there is no alternative but obfuscation and reaction.<br /><br />"The backlash against Caucasian males is a result of this group's dominance from about 1600-1920. It's going to take some time to get that backlash to settle down."<br /><br />Double B.S.. That's a convenient reactionary excuse, a 'plausible' issue to serve as a pretext for attacking western civilization because they had no ideas from which to attack it upon (remember, the idea of women being every bit as intellectually able and responsible as males, is a product OF Western Civilization).<br /><br />"All of the other cutesy feely and capitalist hating attitudes of the left are resultant to the dominant peroid and the backlash is designed to shift power away from Caucasian males."<br /><br />Do you <i>really</i> tell <i>yourself</i> this bilge? Do you <i>buy it</i> when you do? Think about it. There is nothing in Classical Liberalism, in the fundamental ideas of Western Civ that promotes men over women, or that condones slavery, or... etc - habitual customs from time immemorial are not the same as fundamental principles, it is the fundamental principles of Western Civilization which made those customs things of the past - and there is no other culture, or corruption of this one, that offers an alternative.<br /><br />"Just ride out the storm, gentlemen, and humanity will lurch forward"<br /><br />Yeah. Maybe. The numbers of shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea indicates that may not be the best of bets... surely not a sure thing. Cling to your excuses and pet peeves and ride it out, and you may end up facing the reality of human nature unrestrained by noble ideas and virtue, and if you think the 'weaker sex' will prevail in that storm... you are nuts.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66839913678144159952010-05-03T16:59:07.681-07:002010-05-03T16:59:07.681-07:00One reason the Left is contradictory is because it...One reason the Left is contradictory is because it is reactionary, not original.<br /><br />It is a response to 19th century patriarchism and materialism.<br /><br />The 20th century was sort of a transition zone.<br /><br />The backlash against Caucasian males is a result of this group's dominance from about 1600-1920. It's going to take some time to get that backlash to settle down.<br /><br />All of the other cutesy feely and capitalist hating attitudes of the left are resultant to the dominant peroid and the backlash is designed to shift power away from Caucasian males.<br /><br />One way to counteract this is for said group to re-crack down and take back the reins of power...I note on this blog the power group is well represented.<br /><br />However, that would be regression and not evolution and so its a dead end.<br /><br />Just ride out the storm, gentlemen, and humanity will lurch forward.<br /><br />Certainly we've noted the sisters are quite as good at everything as the brothers. That can't be bad.black holehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366633817665791528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51229778434040959782010-05-03T16:39:34.866-07:002010-05-03T16:39:34.866-07:00"Human beings are not matter and they are not..."Human beings are not matter and they are not God. If we were matter, we could not evolve, and if we were God, there would be no need to. But in reducing himself to matter, the radical secularist covertly elevates himself to God, since nothing is higher or lower than anything else -- thus, with a single metaphysical error, the humanist makes a god -- or a giant assoul -- of himself. You will have noticed that this is one of the contradictions at the heart of both scientism and leftism, and which ramifies into countless other errors. "<br /><br />Yep. One of the delightful side effects that were drawn from Descartes "I think, therefore I am", is that it leads very conveniently into "It is, because I think it"... and it is a clearly visible trait engrained into the left, whether it be in economists where there is abundant evidence for the fallacies and failures of every scrap of leftist econ theory, from before to Marx and on through and past Keynes... and everyone from Bastiat through Mallock through von Mises and Hazlitt & Friedman... has blasted them to ludicrous shreds - and the left continues to support them - because they <i>think it should be so, therefore it must be</i>.<br /><br />Same can be shown for all the leftist variants of determinist social theories from everyone from Rousseau to Godwin to Bentham to Marx to Dewey to B.F. Skinner to Rawls... and everyone from Burke to Bastiat to Babbitt to Mallock to Kirk to Rand, Weaver, Buckley, Goldwater, Friedman, Sowell... and on and on and on, has shown every jit and jot to be the most juvenile, shallow, codswallop... and not one of them can support their claims and assertions with anything but claims and assertions... yet... the left continues to support them - because they <i>think it should be so, therefore it must be</i>.<br /><br />If you can't reach God status by raising yourself up, try raising everything to the ground and claim it by egalitarian default - that would be the way of the left... may it someday soon be left behind.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18967771517592964482010-05-03T16:35:53.051-07:002010-05-03T16:35:53.051-07:00It's tempting to go down that road, Tigtog, bu...It's tempting to go down that road, Tigtog, but really I don't think it's wise. <br /><br />That many if not most people are easily led is a facet of human nature, (maybe even a vital part - consider the necessity of hierarchy and chain of command among various types of organizations, from the cellular to the civilizational levels) but I don't think it can be blamed on intelligence or the lack thereof. Too many leftists are, if anything, too smart for their own good. <br /><br />Basic intelligence and ability to reason are functions of knowledge and how the brain works with it. GIGO, no matter how smart one is - and we've had how many generations now getting their brains filled with the absolute worst of garbage on an industrial level? If you want to be technical, I suppose the answer is "all of them," one way or another.<br /><br />Thus as adults people know so much that ain't so, and thus why it is so important - an individual responsibility, really - to seek the truth (and as much as possible, separate it from the lie). And that task is made all the more difficult for the fact that the lie is so often very appealing - it flatters, it builds self-esteem, it comforts, it whispers lovingly in the ears of those who will listen, even as it gently guides them straight down that well-paved road to the heart of darkness. The intelligent are just as susceptible, if not moreso, than those who know themselves to be less wise and are looking for guidance.<br /><br />Or as someone <a href="http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8018&Itemid=121&ed=1" rel="nofollow">the Anchoress linked today</a> wrote, <br /><br /><i>I once had occasion to hear a brilliant and compassionate doctor testify that it is incomparably more difficult to rehabilitate intellectuals from drug addiction or alcoholism than it is to rehabilitate less intelligent or less educated people.<br />...<br />The problem, he explained, is that intellectuals and professionals, with their brains and their training, cannot help but think that they know better than those who are proposing to treat them. They are sure that they will be able to handle the problem themselves, sure that they know the difference between addiction and simply engaging in a pleasurable activity that they can drop at any time. They are the experts on themselves, and they alone can say if they are addicted. Less-advantaged folks may allow drugs or alcohol to control their lives, we say, but not people like us.</i><br /><br />(The linked article is very good, by the way, for anyone who has time for another lengthy passage today)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25829972162593320552010-05-03T16:31:09.854-07:002010-05-03T16:31:09.854-07:00Magnus as usual is on to something profound. I am ...Magnus as usual is on to something profound. I am a not atypical entrepreneurial capitalist. I've made money, created wealth, lost my shirt a few times, and keep coming back for more.<br /><br />Nonetheless I wholeheartedly agree with Magnus about the evils of excessive materialistic consumption and the dangers of becoming <i>defined by</i> money. Some of the most despicable, soul-barren people I've met on this planet are millionaires. In fact, a very sizable portion of the left are wealthy (Michael Moore) or very wealthy (Soros).<br /><br />The free market as it originated in Europe and later improved upon in America works beautifully when a majority of the citizens are at least somewhat motivated by spiritual principles. When that happens you get New York City. When great wealth is unmoored from anything decent you get the obscene decadence of the Russian quasi-criminal billionaires and their whale penis leather upholstered $3 million luxury SUVs, and their gold-plated AK-47s.<br /><br />I also think Bob is correct that the US is at a fork in the road. A return to the spirit of 1776 on the one side, gold-plated vomitoria on the other.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71110885282299020522010-05-03T15:44:50.043-07:002010-05-03T15:44:50.043-07:00Is it the left or the vast amount of idiots that f...Is it the left or the vast amount of idiots that find simple "slogans" more persuasive than reason when navigating their lives? My take is that the MSM is designed to do one thing and that is provide impulse amulets to the masses. The sad fact is the masses seem to be dominated by retards. I understand that they like me are busy with our own lives, but the fact remains they can be so easily led to such moronic conclusions so easily. Speaking of moronic conclusions, consider Stalin, Mao, Castro and Pol Pot. Then consider that supposedly educated people find their achievements laudatory. I guess one has to matriculate at the ivies to gain such lofty insights. It makes you wonder if the profs at Yale told the undergrads to put a plastic bag over their head and tie it off, would they do it? <br /><br />Glad to see Gagdad back in full fettle.<br /><br />Wow WV is scary: phallycyTigtoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03290914498892961024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68116783222853661122010-05-03T14:24:39.282-07:002010-05-03T14:24:39.282-07:00omnipotently narcissistic skepticism
Ho!
It'...<i>omnipotently narcissistic skepticism</i><br /><br />Ho!<br /><br />It's all been said at OC, huh? I've been searching for a such a perfectly distilled little phrase with which to describe the typical mainstream (i.e., soft-left, atheist) intellectual-ish drone forever.<br /><br />Definitely borrowing that one.<br /><br />wv: undiers<br />(Yes, leftists DO remind one of spiritual zombies)Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74456919823399702952010-05-03T13:25:26.633-07:002010-05-03T13:25:26.633-07:00What Bob said: Dilys!
By the way, I found a seach...What Bob said: Dilys!<br /><br />By the way, I found a seachable (PDF) of MOTT, if you are still interested, Dilys. I think you were once.. Let me know..Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51032727922668910872010-05-03T13:03:28.393-07:002010-05-03T13:03:28.393-07:00another view of reality & truth
LINK: http:/...another view of reality & truth<br /><br />LINK: http://article.nationalreview.com/432597/nun-sense-women-in-the-catholic-church/kathryn-jean-lopez<br /><br />This long National Review article offers gems:<br /><br />¨Language is at the heart of Catholic philosophy. In the United States, where pragmatic theories of truth and postmodern approaches to knowledge abound, the relation between truth and reality is undermined. All becomes superficial, and imagination replaces the union of human mind to reality. So the answer to “Why should it matter at all to the world” is embedded in the deeper question of whether a person cares about truth or not, and how much he or she cares.¨Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11816128268464995920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69791280148008018042010-05-03T12:53:16.451-07:002010-05-03T12:53:16.451-07:00Dilys!
We were starting to get worried that perha...Dilys!<br /><br />We were starting to get worried that perhaps you'd gone "lookin' for Toots" in the by-and-by.<br /><br />For you newer readers, Dilys was one of the earliest, if not the earliest, Jehovial Witnesses of the Lost Tribe, so don't give her any lip, and pay close attention to her outside-insights and inside-outsights!Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16526972826268237272010-05-03T12:13:23.720-07:002010-05-03T12:13:23.720-07:00Powerful stuff.
I don't think we'll fai...Powerful stuff. <br /><br />I don't think we'll fail. I do think things have to be shaken up so, for a time, it may be indistinguishable from failure.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63856487177764180942010-05-03T11:29:52.910-07:002010-05-03T11:29:52.910-07:00"Klimate Klown Kult"
Lol... that's ..."Klimate Klown Kult"<br /><br />Lol... that's going to leave a mark.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69896247655809102602010-05-03T11:25:39.681-07:002010-05-03T11:25:39.681-07:00Another sign of the Apocalypse? I mention it becau...<a href="http://trainaman.com/" rel="nofollow">Another sign of the Apocalypse</a>? I mention it because apparently she's not the only one who a) thinks and acts this way, and b) considers it perfectly acceptable to proudly trumpet her behavior as worthy of emulation. Also c) apparently a lot of men just kind of accept that that's how married life is supposed to be. Men are children. Or animals to be trained. <br /><br />Talk about becoming dis-spirited - even if this isn't a cultural norm, it is presented as such, and consumed as wisdom or truth in great enough quantities by enough people it will become so.<br /><br />Money quote from one of her posts:<br />"Sometimes these battles go on for a long time and we learn to live with them. But it’s got to be stopped or we will end up resenting our husbands."<br /><br />If I didn't know better, I'd swear she already resents him, just for having a Y chromosome.<br /><br />(via <a href="http://drhelen.blogspot.com/2010/05/and-now-you-will-have-to-pay-price.html" rel="nofollow">Dr. Helen</a>)<br /><br />heh - wv has him pegged as "cowed"juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67287215806964859842010-05-03T10:58:46.037-07:002010-05-03T10:58:46.037-07:00I think that, even on a clear day, folks are just ...<i>I think that, even on a clear day, folks are just plain overwhelmed by contradictory information, and they become truly dis-spirited.</i><br /><br />Yes, and I think that's all part of the plan. Today's example: <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-fire-and-brimstone-world-of-texas-school-propaganda/?singlepage=true" rel="nofollow">Liberals = Angels, Conservatives = Devils</a> <br /><br />I suspect it was also no accident that the teacher used religious imagery to advocate a position that is inherently (liberalism in general) and overtly (the opening two paragraphs) anti-religious.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57326650407293148072010-05-03T10:32:57.799-07:002010-05-03T10:32:57.799-07:00Per our joking around (?) yesterday re the Apocaly...Per our joking around (?) yesterday re the Apocalyptic feeling that lurks, I think that, even on a clear day, folks are just plain <i>overwhelmed</i> by contradictory information, and they become truly dis-spirited.<br /><br />In fact, other than the blatant destruction being wrought on our country by the Left, my own opinion is that it is the "dis-spirited" condition of our people that will be the most lasting and worst effect. Raccoons <i>may</i> maintain some centeredness, some balance, through all this turmoil, but many folks won't.<br /><br />Your list of contradictions is a prime example of what an informed person faces. Here is another little quote from Peter Kingsley that addresses it:<br /><i>"The millions of spoken or written words released aimlessly and unconsciously into the atmosphere at every moment are a massive tidal wave sweeping through the collective awareness of humanity, devastating everything in its path, wiping away any glimpse of reality, destroying the germs of true understanding before they even have a chance to take root and grow.<br /><br />"And yet there are some words that act in a very different way because the substance they are made of is completely pure."</i><br /><br />I'm thinking more and more that that "completely pure" must be found in exactly the opposite direction from the leftwing contradictions, paralleling what Solzhenitsyn said:<br /><i>"What is the first step? Simply to discard the lie, and to realize that you have proceeded from a state of false knowledge, to one of true ignorance."</i><br /><br />That "ignorance" is, properly understood, radical openness, and the capacity to receive. Totally "other" than the double-bind of the social justice blah-blah that our culture is awash with.walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5905709494681336962010-05-03T10:04:42.459-07:002010-05-03T10:04:42.459-07:00Dilys!
Ha! After all these years, I finally get t...Dilys!<br /><br />Ha! After all these years, I finally get to find out who <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/00938839975315248170" rel="nofollow">who, me?</a> was/is!walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37409968594575641032010-05-03T09:57:04.574-07:002010-05-03T09:57:04.574-07:00Dang it, you beat me to the Solzhenitsyn link.Dang it, you beat me to the Solzhenitsyn link.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9434666060279497512010-05-03T09:51:25.794-07:002010-05-03T09:51:25.794-07:00I am convinced that capitalism is not viable witho...I am convinced that capitalism is not viable without a society infused by true religion. In order to maximize profit, our society fans the flame of desire through advertising. But desire not restrained by religion inevitably leads to envy; and envy is the lifeblood of the Left. In Socialism, the envious can blame their failure on the successful. But once you eat the rich, the least poor will become the new rich, and the process continues until only abject failure remains.<br /><br />Unless society has a religion that effectively combats envy, progress will inevitably be followed by regress. Politics is not enough: If man lives by bread alone, he will become a Beast.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.com