Roger Scruton’s “Why Beauty Matters”. Awesome awesome awesome. Opened my eyes. “Modern Art” was one of the first weapons of communism.
Central NC: I was one of the top five Trump donors here between Jan-Jun 2019 and the local “Triad Business Journal” published the names of us. They buried the names of the Dem Campaign Donors to make it less obvious. I called the editor and complained. All the filthy commie kept saying was “We think our readership wants to know this” and “Its public information.”
So, I donated more.
Unfortunately, my parents, in their 80s, just went the other direction: Dad is a USAFA grad (1959, first graduating class in fact) former nuclear bomber (B52 and B66) pilot, lifelong Repub, who is “disgusted” by GEOTUS. I ask why, and he gives the same three vague, implanted catch-alls “racist, sexist, and arrogant”. He won’t talk about it. He won’t try to convince me to vote Biden. There is nothing there.
Jacques Ellul wrote the 1963 classic “Propaganda”. Therein, he notes that modern propaganda takes no interest in changing opinions, but rather only changing BEHAVIOR. He says propaganda can make a conservative vote communist and vice versa. Changing a man’s opinions is too much work; just change his behavior at the polls.
Red Pilling is like defusing a bomb; it must be done with extreme care.
Jonathon Swift said [paraphrase]: “You cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into”.
I’ve had successes and failures. All failures occurred because I rushed the job.
My latest failure was my parents: Life-long Republicans (dad was a graduate of the first graduating class at US Air Force Academy, and former nuclear bomber pilot [B52]). Now 85 years old, he and my mom have been hopelessly brainwashed by the media.
Physician here. This is Harvard’s medical journal. Most famous in the world (along with JAMA and BMJ maybe).
Infected with TDS it appears. They are mad Trump did not choose a centralized approach (to fight Covid) like China’s. Instead, Trump let the states decide.
My thoughts:
- The authors (“Editors”) are too chicken-sh!t to put their names on this.
- Only translation option: Chinese. Hmmmmm...
Did the CCP’s Public Relations people write this?
Happy to see this.
I have been giving $50/month to Judicial Watch for almost five years I think. I know that much of their work falls upon deaf ears sometimes, but at least we have them out there uncovering the corruption and reporting on it.
Why is JW needed? Because as the Congress becomes more and more dysfunctional, tyrants will rely more on the Judiciary (judges) to declare this law or that law unconstitutional. This reliance on the judiciary to solve basic disputes is, itself, a sign that our Republic is perhaps beginning Oswald Spengler’s death spiral.
Anarcho-Libertarianism is just another path to Communism.
Marx: Under communism, “I could fish in the morning, hunt in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening and do critical theory at night, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”
Pure communism (no-government) and libertarianism are hardly indistinguishable, no?
Perhaps I am mistaken?
Batman has a waiver