tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5776377564884541178..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: TOTAL CLARITY and PERFECT NONSENSEGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90025277092425542262014-05-07T05:43:00.239-07:002014-05-07T05:43:00.239-07:00Cooncidentally, I came upon an article this mornin...Cooncidentally, I came upon an article this morning by your author, <a href="http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/02/music-of-spheres.html" rel="nofollow">Robert Reilly</a>,<br /><br />"...The prevalent influence on Cage seems instead to have been Jean Jacques Rousseau, though he goes unmentioned in Cage’s many obiter dicta. Cage’s similarities with Rousseau are too uncanny to have been accidental.<br /><br />With his noise, Cage worked out musically the full implications of Rousseau’s non-teleological view of nature in his Second Discourse. Cage did for music what Rousseau did for political philosophy. Perhaps the most profoundly anti-Aristotelian philosopher of the eighteenth century, Rousseau turned Aristotle’s notion of nature on its head. ..."<br /><br />, and this sums it up well:<br /><br />"According to Rousseau, man was originally isolated in the state of nature, where the pure “sentiment of his own existence” was such that “one suffices to oneself, like God.” Yet this self-satisfied god was asocial and pre-rational. Only by accident did man come into association with others. Somehow, this accident ignited his reason. Through his association with others, man lost his self-sufficient “sentiment of his own existence.” He became alienated. He began to live in the esteem of others instead of in his own self-esteem."<br /><br />As that became popular, how could we not end up where we are today?<br /><br />Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70793032309136648262014-05-06T22:18:44.566-07:002014-05-06T22:18:44.566-07:00In short, he capitalized on the erroneous opening ...In short, he capitalized on the erroneous opening Descartes made legitimate, and made it 'possible', respectable, and desirable, to remake God as man's image, and soon after seek to throw that pale reflection over for the real deal in the mirror.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22406327627344387822014-05-06T21:59:29.219-07:002014-05-06T21:59:29.219-07:00Ayn Rand set the Objectivist & Libertarian wor...Ayn Rand set the Objectivist & Libertarian world on the trail of Kant... which is not quite a waste of time, but close. I don't think Rand ever did all that much research into much of anything beyond what she was sure of.<br /><br />Rousseau didn't target the eggheads, he went for the poets and educators - the true legislators some would say - and he knew the eggheads would follow. <br /><br />Read the two, Kant was inspired by Rousseau, his entire intellectual Rube Goldberg edifice is a support structure for Rousseau's inspirations, but bring it down, or step around it, as post-moderns believe they've done, and the inspiration lives on in them.<br /><br />Marx found his inspiration in Rousseau, and there is little in his glop that isn't repackaged and marketed Rousseau.<br /><br />Another less heard from today, Francois Babeuf, did as well.<br /><br />Rousseau didn't just make errors, as perhaps Kant, Hegel & others did, he deliberately set out to <i>destroy</i> Western Civilization and all it's standards that tormented him. From his lurking as a peeping tom & flasher, to his desire to eliminate harmony from music, to twisting education into a tool that would eliminate all standards, and raze all hierarchy to the ground - which is was the 'Nature' he sought - through his writings he <i>inspired</i>, directly or indirectly, all those who have followed, to pursue destruction with an erotic zeal.<br /><br />And you'll find him in most of your kids textbooks as a great defender of 'Rights' and 'Liberty'.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77148714499326269622014-05-06T21:34:00.713-07:002014-05-06T21:34:00.713-07:00Gagdad said " Amazingly, Rousseau is even mor...Gagdad said " Amazingly, Rousseau is even more of a monster than I'd thought."<br /><br />I've heard that somewhere before...Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26664130380567068372014-05-06T20:44:10.665-07:002014-05-06T20:44:10.665-07:00Exactly. Same with A Troublesome Inheritance -- c...Exactly. Same with A Troublesome Inheritance -- check out Charles Murray's <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303380004579521482247869874" rel="nofollow">review</a>. I would not want to be Nicholas Wade this week. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23792309931412613392014-05-06T20:38:40.523-07:002014-05-06T20:38:40.523-07:00I just got to say it took courage to put that book...I just got to say it took courage to put that book out. It's one thing to awaken people to some deeper Truth, and another thing to do it with an arrow coming out of your back.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36743726209438561822014-05-06T16:54:10.967-07:002014-05-06T16:54:10.967-07:00And of course, the acceptance of homosexuality is ...And of course, the acceptance of homosexuality is only one facet of the general, growing culture-wide acceptance of things that are wrong. Divorce, abortion, prostitution, <a href="http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-catastrophe-of-suicide-7902" rel="nofollow">suicide</a> - all these things members of polite society are pressed to tolerate, as matters of personal choice. And eventually, merely "tolerating" aberrant behavior becomes unacceptable. The polite citizen must refrain from expressing negative opinions. Or better yet, express admiration for the making of "brave" choices. And so so it goes, and there are more divorces, more abortions, more prostitutes, more suicides. And, one suspects, more gays, very few of whom seem to be genuinely happy in their alternative lifestyle.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33200591811949376162014-05-06T15:32:02.642-07:002014-05-06T15:32:02.642-07:00Look how the angry crazies come out of the woodwor...Look how the angry crazies come out of the woodwork to denounce it. These people are scary. Unhinged rage and absolute self-righteousness do not mix.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46417518661208022552014-05-06T15:26:29.627-07:002014-05-06T15:26:29.627-07:00This book on homosexuality -- or as one reviewer p...This <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Making-Gay-Okay-Rationalizing-Homosexual/dp/1586178334/ref=tf_ssw?&linkCode=wss&tag=onecos-20" rel="nofollow">book</a> on homosexuality -- or as one reviewer put it, fundamentalist Christofascist anti-gay propaganda -- is fantastic so far. Amazingly, Rousseau is even more of a monster than I'd thought. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-92064931841156952222014-05-06T13:41:12.379-07:002014-05-06T13:41:12.379-07:00Reality isn't up to Obama's standards. Th...Reality isn't up to Obama's standards. That's hilarious. <br /><br />If I've had even a tiny part in disappointing him and his misbegotten ilk, I have not lived in vain.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78101777691944313242014-05-06T13:40:50.095-07:002014-05-06T13:40:50.095-07:00We can look back and see its unmistakable fruit tr...<i>We can look back and see its unmistakable fruit tracks, or turn forward and feel its attraction and its nourishment: it simultaneously PULLS on our emptiness and GIVES of its riches.</i><br /><br />How beautifully true and seamless.<br /><br />I saw all the CAPS and got worried I was on a Franklin Jones site. :)tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10411963539060004422014-05-06T13:38:54.629-07:002014-05-06T13:38:54.629-07:00History will have healed the wounds it inflicted, ...<i> History will have healed the wounds it inflicted, and hopefully JUDGMENT will wound the heels history inflicted upon the restavus.</i><br /><br />But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. <br />(1 Corinthians 11:31-32)<br /><br />mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73988190030047878082014-05-06T12:31:29.919-07:002014-05-06T12:31:29.919-07:00How small does a mind have to be to find the whole...How small does a mind have to be to find the whole world a disappointment? Makes me wonder if he even enjoys all those rounds of golf, or if he just plays to distract himself from his epic jadedness.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11364303863015327392014-05-06T11:56:14.269-07:002014-05-06T11:56:14.269-07:00Example: Obama is disappointed that the world is ...Example: Obama is <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/348991.php" rel="nofollow">disappointed</a> that the world is not up to his standards. Reality is beneath him.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9399115995221726592014-05-06T10:11:14.459-07:002014-05-06T10:11:14.459-07:00For me, the achievement of TOTAL CLARITY means tha...<i>For me, the achievement of TOTAL CLARITY means that no honest, intellectually adequate, and sincere person could possibly disagree with me.</i><br /><br />:)<br /><br />The only downside is, the more accurate you are, the less there is to say about it. <br /><br /><i>Conversely, the first principle of the homosexual activists is that "things are nothing in themselves, but are only what we make them to be according to our wills and desires" (emphasis mine). Here we see how one man's metaphysical trash is another man's libidinous pleasure, the pleasure of dominating reality with the will to power.</i><br /><br />I'm reminded again of the news about the Episcopalian bishop who dumped his wife and daughters to marry a man, then eventually dumped the man, too. <i>So long, and thanks for all the dick!</i> <br /><br />It's bad enough when a lay person acts this way. How much worse when a so-called religious leader does it, and expects to be celebrated for his "brave" choices. No wonder people are leaving the Episcopal church in droves.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com