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December 30, 2011
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October 26, 2011
Sure, Living in Today’s Modern World is a Little Bit Like Having Bees in Your Head
But – there they are! So do what I do – keep working, keep drinking and take your television’s advice. You know, many TVs recommend “Faith In The System” Yes, “Faith In The System”, available in easy-to-swallow propaganda form, or new, fast-acting Mind Control… October 20, 2011
Lyrics heard on my Pandora Quick Mix today
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated October 19, 2011
In which our Gentle Host is Congratulated on Instalanche the Second nigh upon these past two Days
Congratulations! Hope you put some Stacker 2 in the Server Hamster’s water bottle. P.S.: Fuck you, Kevin. October 9, 2011
Parody or real?
Behold, some of the glorious thinking that is occurring among the #OccupyWallStreet crowd. Or is it? Having looked over these Tweets, I have to wonder if we’re not dealing with a parody account, playing the role of a clueless Leftie who feels he’s owed by The Man. If I didn’t know better, I’d think Mark Steyn was the puppetmaster It starts here, with a Tweet by diggrbiii What are you going to do when Congress doesn’t meet your demand, #OccupyWallStreet? What’s your plan? That is answered by MrHortonscycles, whose “name” is eat therich BURN THE FUCKING THING TO THE GROUND MAN. BURN IT TO THE GROUND diggrbiii MrHortonscycles diggrbiii MrHortonscycles diggrbiii MrHortonscycles diggrbiii MrHortonscycles proteinwisdom MrHortonscycles proteinwisdom proteinwisdom MrHortonscycles proteinwisdom polnumbness MrHortonscycles toddeherman MrHortonscycles proteinwisdom MrHortonscycles proteinwisdom MrHortonscycles toddeherman MrHortonscycles TellyStern TheDoche MrHortonscycles TheDoche MrHortonscycles nomorebama2012 MrHortonscycles This is why I suspect the account is a parody: He’s 150K in debt, having majored in music theory, and hoped to teach social justice to the masses through music. It’s just too pitch-perfect, too proggy, to be real. Right? August 17, 2011
Putting Reality Up for Grabs
Excerpt from Mark Steyn, After America, “After: A Letter from the Post-American World” What follows purports to be a missive from the future. Author unknown. It was found tucked into the glovebox in the remnants of what appeared to be a Victorian-era contraption.… The state of nature made huge advances in the early years of the century. Why did we never wonder what might happen when such forces went nuclear? … For all the economic growth since World War II, much of the world had gone backwards—almost the whole of West Africa, and Central Africa, and Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan, Bosnia. Yet none of the elite asked themselves a simple question: What’s to stop that spreading? … Andrew McCarthy wrote, “Civilization is not an evolution of mankind but the imposition of human good on human evil. It is not a historical inevitability. It is a battle that has to be fought every day, because evil doesn’t recede willing before the wheels of progress.” By the dawn of the twenty-first century, Liberia, the Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea were all less “civilized” than they had been a couple of generations ago. And yet in one sense many of them had made undeniable progress: they had globalized their pathologies. … The mound of corpses piled up around the world at the turn of the century was not from high-tech nuclear states but from low-tech psycho states. Yet the Pansy Left (in George Orwell’s phrase) continued to insist that the problem was technological, a question of nuclear “proliferation.” Even from a post-American world, it seems sad to have to point out that the problem was not that America had nukes and that poor old Sudan had to make do with machetes. It’s that the machete crowd were willing to kill on an industrial scale and the high-tech guys could not muster the will to stop them. To horrified western liberals, nuclear technology is bad in and of itself. But nukes are means. What you do with them depends on your ends. And if, as in the Congo and Sudan, killing is your end, the you will find the means. Perhaps it was sensitivity to cultural diversity that prevented President Obama taking up a machete non-proliferation initiative. pp. 317-20 Many westerners were familiar with Nietzche’s accurate foretelling of the twentieth century as an age of “wars such as have never happened on earth.” … But too many forget the context in which the philosopher reached his conclusion—that “God is dead.” … [It] was not a statement of personal belief but a news headline—in the author’s words, a “tremendous event.” If, as he saw it, educated people had ceased to believe in the divine, that entailed certain consequences. For God … had had a civilizing effect during his (evolutionarily speaking) brief reign. Without God … what constraints are there? … [Nietzsche] foresaw a time even worse than the “wars such as have never happened,” wars that were after all still fought according to the remnants, the “mere pittance” of the late God’s moral codes. But after that, what? The next century—our century—would see the “total eclipse of all values.” Man would attempt a “re-evaluation,” as the West surely did through multiculturalism, sexual liberation, eco-fetishization, and various other fancies. But you cannot have an effective moral code, Nietzsche pointed out, without a God who says “Thou shalt not.” Thou shalt not what? Eat pygmies? Rip out children’s hearts? Wire up your own infant as a bomb? Express mild disapproval of the cultures that engage in such activities? Multiculturalism was the West’s last belief system. Its final set of values accorded all values equal value. Which is to say that it had no set of values—for, if all values have equal value, what’s the point? … They valued all values, and so relentlessly all values slipped into eclipse—and then a valueless age dawned. It’s never a good idea to put reality up for grabs. pp. 321-22 August 14, 2011
How do you spell ARMAGEDDON?
For Americans, the best-case scenario is that Washington’s ruling kleptocracy sleepwalks its subjects into smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller lives, and soft despotism so beguilingly they don’t notice it’s over until late in the day. A more likely prospect is a catastrophically convulsed America that descends into Balkanized ruin and social collapse on a planet with no global order in which the former hyperpower still makes the most inviting target. What, you wanted a happy ending? Well, you’re going to have to make that happen—because, without fundamental course correction, there is only the certainty of disaster, and a step-by-step descent deeper into the abyss: A is for ADDICTION We spend too much, borrowing from the future to such an extent it’s no longer clear we’ve got one. R is for REDISTRIBUTION Day by day, an unprecedented transfer of wealth from the productive class to the obstructive class is delivering a self-governing republic into rule by regulators, bureaucrats, and social engineers. M is for MONOPOLY Old ruling class: “We the People.” New ruling class: “We the People who know better than you frightful people.…” America is ruled not by a meritocracy but by a cartel of conformicrats imposing a sterile monopoly of outmoded ideas. A is for ARTERIOSCLEROSIS “Yes we can”? No, we can’t! By comparison with the past, America is already seizing up. G is for GLOBAL RETREAT As Britain and other great powers quickly learned, the price of Big Government at home is an ever smaller presence abroad. An American turned inward will make for a more dangerous world. E is for ENGINEERING “Celebrate Diversity”? The ideological homogeneity and social engineering of the nation’s schools would be regarded as child abuse in any other age. Aside from its other defects, it diverts too many Americans into frivolous unproductive activity, while our competitors get on with the real work. D is for DECAY Mired in dependency and decline, much of the United States will be on a fast track to the Third World. And, no matter how refined the upscale communities the elites retrench to, it will prove increasingly impossible to insulate yourself from the pathologies a decadent liberalism has loosed to rampage Godzilla-sized across the land. D is for DISINTEGRATION We are becoming the highly singular United State of America. No advanced society has ever tried hyper-regulatory direct rule for 350 million people. Will it work? Or is it more likely that increasingly incompatible jurisdictions and social groups will conclude that the price for keeping fifty stars in the flag is too high? Without the American idea, there will be insufficient glue to hold the United States together. O is for OPEN SEASON Do you find it hard to imagine a world without America? The Russians, the Chinese, and the would-be New Caliphate don’t. And on a planet where rich passive nations are defenseless while every failed state from North Korea to Sudan is butching up, it’s not hard to figure out what comes next. N is for NUKES AWAY! Addiction, Redistribution, Monopoly, Arteriosclerosis, Global retreat, Engineering, Decay, Disintegration, Open season, Nukes away. Put them all together, they spell …? Look around you. From now on, it gets worse. In ten years’ time, there will be no American Dream, any more than there’s a Greek or Portuguese Dream. In twenty, you’ll be living the American Nightmare, with large tracts of the country reduced to the favelas of Latin America, the rich fleeing for Bermuda or New Zealand or wherever on the planet they can buy a little time, and the rest trapped in the impoverished, violent, diseased ruins of utopian vanity.… On the other hand: The United States is still different. In the wake of the economic meltdown, the decadent youth of France rioted over the most modest of proposals to increase the retirement age. Elderly “students” in Britain attacked the heir to the throne’s car over footling attempts to constrain bloated, wasteful, and pointless “university” costs. Everywhere from Iceland to Bulgaria angry mobs besieged their parliaments demanding the same thing: Why didn’t you the government do more for me? America was the only nation in the developed world where millions of people took to the streets to tell the state: I can do just fine if you control-freak statists would shove your non-stimulating stimulus, your jobless jobs bill, and your multitrillion-dollar porkathons, and just stay the hell out of my life and my pocket. That’s the America that has a fighting chance.… —Mark Steyn, After America, Prologue: “The Stupidity of Broke,” pp 20–22 August 8, 2011
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi – Tuesday is usually worse
Should we feel sorry? Worried? Desperate? – Well, with apologies to Oscar Wilde, but one has to have a heart of stone to read about the struggling political class without laughing. The modern state is in terminal decline. Good riddance. … We libertarians have been treated as slightly eccentric for years, no, for decades. Our plans to convince our fellow men and women of the benefits of small or no government, of the power of voluntary cooperation on free markets, of the global division of labor and of personal liberty – they were greeted with the pitiful smile reserved for the hopelessly naive. No political party would ever win on such a platform, we were told. If given the choice, the public votes not for freedom with all its uncertainty but for the caring, paternalistic state with free health service at point of delivery – and while we are at it, why not all sorts of other freebies, too? July 27, 2011
Fifteen Things The President Said Monday Night That Made Me Want To Throw My Television Off A Balcony
I think my title makes it so I need no further introduction. July 22, 2011
Taxes, Borrowing, Spending, the Three Horsemen of…?
Democrats and the media have been shouting out for weeks about the horrors to be coming if the United States “defaults” on its debt. Now it is known that the US has enough incoming revenue to service its debt and a constitutional mandate in the 14th amendment to do so. So no “default” is possible unless extra…? no, unconstitutional measures are taken by the current administration to divert revenue from debt service into other “obligations” or desires. So default is a red herring. So why throw around the word “default”? What are the consequences of a so-called “default” and how could they arise if it not possible for the US to actually default? In other words is the word/charge of “default” being thrown around in order to disguise where the true danger, the true cause of the horrible consequences, which are being rhetorically tied to the word “default”, come from for political gain, or at least for political cover? It is my contention that this is the case. |
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