This may be your best essay on Substack.com, yet. I hope you receive comments listing specific examples of the Progressive's "code language". As part of the dying generation, I cling to the old standards: SNAFU and cluster-fuck.
Soon we will be living in a society nearly identical to the Weimer Republic, with mobs seeking out defenseless victims (Jews and Asians beware) and a fascist government able to control the media and re-write history to their liking. Both of those things, of course, have already begun (the mainstream media is careful to protect the identities and race of the mobs).
Keep up the good work. And I love the Hayek quote. While everyone has problems wading through original works of philosophy, I hope you continue to salt your writing with quotes by Spinoza, Swedenborg, Sartre, Keynes, and Nietzche. It expands our minds to see these eternal thoughts coupled with observations of contemporary life.
"Progressives" are stroking themselves madly if they consider themselves post-modernists. They are to politics what dada was to art. Consider the foolishness of the Disney Corporation. These privileged turds believe they have the right to dictate the laws of the nation. They have developed their own code-words and language. The "Don't Say Gay" law? There is no such thing. Still, the proponents of sexually abusing children are proud and say it out loud. All the time.
Dada was a reaction to the insanity of WW I and the dehumanization of people. The WOKE are a result of a world gone mad. They have been filled with so many lies they are like bloated ticks that have drunk so much blood they are ready to burst.
And, of course, it is not only leftist loons who have taken leave of their senses. While Obama, in his third term of office, is determined to have his proxy war in Ukraine go on forever, "conservatives" like Brian Kilmeade, Dan Crenshaw, and Tom Cotton are beating the war drums in hopes of destroying Russia. In particular, the war hawks hope that Putin will end up like Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.
The insanity of the Swamp and the media has infected most Americans. We are on the fast track to self-destruction and we probably deserve it.
"What Nietzsche realized was that man must understand that life is not governed by rational principles. Life is full of cruelty, injustice, uncertainty and absurdity. There are no absolute standards of good and evil which can be demonstrated by human Reason. There is only naked man living alone in a godless and absurd world. Modern industrial, bourgeois society, according to Nietzsche, made man decadent and feeble because it made man a victim of the excessive development of the rational faculties at the expense of human will and instinct."
As a Taoist, I find it impossible to disagree with Nietzsche's thought regarding "morality". A friend of mine once joked that the Peace Corps was a huge mistake because once an idealistic JFK disciple dug a well for natives in a drought-stricken area, it led to an explosion of new births and, logically, to starvation.
While Nietzsche's writings are often believed to have led to Hitler's reign of terror, his logic is flawless. Christian charity does support and increase the reproduction of genetically inferior stock and programs like Affirmative Action are demeaning to its recipients and a racist attack on non-blacks.
I DID enjoy reading that essay and I look forward to reading the other one you reposted once I get over my mental exhaustion from studying this one.
You’ve raised a good point. The idea that the truth can’t be allowed to be heard. Truth has its own power. It has weight, and is substantial. Evil/stupid/duplicitous speech cuts into those who hear it. It weakens people. It confuses them. When they hear Truth the hold the cult has on them starts to loosen. The Cult leaders can never allow this. Every cult needs to isolate its members from the rest of society. It can’t last buffeted by even normally truthful living.
I do not answer to you, Marcie. You can experience the Biden Economy and find out what it is to live with 20% inflation. We already have angry mobs on the streets and a fascist government making arbitrary, capricious, and illegal rules. Following the lead of Obama, Biden is using the CIA and the FBI as his personal army and Merrick Garland is ignoring actual crimes in favor of punishing the government's political enemies.
Remember what Goebbels said. "Tell a lie once and it remains a lie, tell it often enough and it becomes the truth". We are living in a world of lies and people seem comforted by that. I assume you are.
I have become a cranky old man. It seems like yesterday when I was in the Army in 1970 -71 and had a positive outlook. Sorry for responding in such a hostile manner.
This may be your best essay on Substack.com, yet. I hope you receive comments listing specific examples of the Progressive's "code language". As part of the dying generation, I cling to the old standards: SNAFU and cluster-fuck.
Soon we will be living in a society nearly identical to the Weimer Republic, with mobs seeking out defenseless victims (Jews and Asians beware) and a fascist government able to control the media and re-write history to their liking. Both of those things, of course, have already begun (the mainstream media is careful to protect the identities and race of the mobs).
Keep up the good work. And I love the Hayek quote. While everyone has problems wading through original works of philosophy, I hope you continue to salt your writing with quotes by Spinoza, Swedenborg, Sartre, Keynes, and Nietzche. It expands our minds to see these eternal thoughts coupled with observations of contemporary life.
Charles, if you haven't read Chip Morningstar's essay on deconstructionism, please do. I wrote about it here: https://therionorteline.com/2012/01/22/what-comes-after-post-modernism-post-post-modernism/
"Progressives" are stroking themselves madly if they consider themselves post-modernists. They are to politics what dada was to art. Consider the foolishness of the Disney Corporation. These privileged turds believe they have the right to dictate the laws of the nation. They have developed their own code-words and language. The "Don't Say Gay" law? There is no such thing. Still, the proponents of sexually abusing children are proud and say it out loud. All the time.
Dada was a reaction to the insanity of WW I and the dehumanization of people. The WOKE are a result of a world gone mad. They have been filled with so many lies they are like bloated ticks that have drunk so much blood they are ready to burst.
And, of course, it is not only leftist loons who have taken leave of their senses. While Obama, in his third term of office, is determined to have his proxy war in Ukraine go on forever, "conservatives" like Brian Kilmeade, Dan Crenshaw, and Tom Cotton are beating the war drums in hopes of destroying Russia. In particular, the war hawks hope that Putin will end up like Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.
The insanity of the Swamp and the media has infected most Americans. We are on the fast track to self-destruction and we probably deserve it.
You will like this one from my old site from 2013: https://therionorteline.com/2013/04/12/not-a-law-firm-nietzsche-freud-and-marx/
"What Nietzsche realized was that man must understand that life is not governed by rational principles. Life is full of cruelty, injustice, uncertainty and absurdity. There are no absolute standards of good and evil which can be demonstrated by human Reason. There is only naked man living alone in a godless and absurd world. Modern industrial, bourgeois society, according to Nietzsche, made man decadent and feeble because it made man a victim of the excessive development of the rational faculties at the expense of human will and instinct."
As a Taoist, I find it impossible to disagree with Nietzsche's thought regarding "morality". A friend of mine once joked that the Peace Corps was a huge mistake because once an idealistic JFK disciple dug a well for natives in a drought-stricken area, it led to an explosion of new births and, logically, to starvation.
While Nietzsche's writings are often believed to have led to Hitler's reign of terror, his logic is flawless. Christian charity does support and increase the reproduction of genetically inferior stock and programs like Affirmative Action are demeaning to its recipients and a racist attack on non-blacks.
I DID enjoy reading that essay and I look forward to reading the other one you reposted once I get over my mental exhaustion from studying this one.
You’ve raised a good point. The idea that the truth can’t be allowed to be heard. Truth has its own power. It has weight, and is substantial. Evil/stupid/duplicitous speech cuts into those who hear it. It weakens people. It confuses them. When they hear Truth the hold the cult has on them starts to loosen. The Cult leaders can never allow this. Every cult needs to isolate its members from the rest of society. It can’t last buffeted by even normally truthful living.
If your position is correct then defend it and justify it.
I do not answer to you, Marcie. You can experience the Biden Economy and find out what it is to live with 20% inflation. We already have angry mobs on the streets and a fascist government making arbitrary, capricious, and illegal rules. Following the lead of Obama, Biden is using the CIA and the FBI as his personal army and Merrick Garland is ignoring actual crimes in favor of punishing the government's political enemies.
Remember what Goebbels said. "Tell a lie once and it remains a lie, tell it often enough and it becomes the truth". We are living in a world of lies and people seem comforted by that. I assume you are.
You mistake my meaning. I am criticizing those who deflect, rather than defending their position with facts.
I have become a cranky old man. It seems like yesterday when I was in the Army in 1970 -71 and had a positive outlook. Sorry for responding in such a hostile manner.
In your listing of acronyms of military use you left out those most frequently used, FUBB and SNAFU.