That seems obvious to me too, but WHY do you think we are so fractured and fragmented today
Correctly identifying the causative factors then doing whatever may be possible to get us out of our present predicament wold be our only hope of avoiding Perdition.
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace. Where there is Hatred let me sow Love Where there is Doubt Faith Where there is Injury Pardon.
O ,Divine Master let me seek not so much to be loved as to love, to be consoled s to console, to be pardoned as to pardon. for it is in giving that we receive, in pardoning that we are pardoned, and in Dying that we are born into Eternal Life.
~ St. Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226 AD)
"Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me . . ."
We are no longer anything close to a homogeneous society, government powers are plenipotentiary and easily hijacked by whichever tribe won the last election, and the human will to control others is too strong.
There is no going back. This is the new "normal." Wait till 5G gets here.
What that means is that the liberal snowflakes need to shut their stupid yaps and stop telling everybody what to do! We believe in traditional American moral values, not the homosexual perversions and slaughter of babies!
I really like Jordan Peterson. He is full of wisdom, but he is ponderous takes a long time to say it. He has a podcast, and each one runs to almost two hours. If he could learn to condense it down, he would gain many more listeners.
Oh dear, Si;verFiddle! I'm sorry to asy you remind me of the scene in Amadeus where Mozart presented one of hs greatest works –– new minted –– and the Powers that Were on the Scene dismssed it saying, "You write too many notes –– TOO MANY NOTES!" };^)>
Throughout history in expressions of the vulgat popular culture, and the Bourgeois Philistine ignoranti" you'll find snide references to "classical music" as "boring, " "snobbish," "elitist," "confounding," "depressing," –– even "OPPRESSVE," etc.
Unfortunately, we reached the point in the twentieth century where the notiion, "If I don't like, it can't be any good," took hold, and after thatpeople who dared to ASPIRE towards greater understanding and apprecation of the finer, more ingenious, more complex things in life were mocked, jeered, and denigrated as "pretentious," "snobbish, " "highfalutin," "too big for their breeches," – you name it.
In panderng primarily to the Lowest Common Denominator either to sell more meretricious merchandise or to curry favor with the masses in order to gain political power has had a frankly ruinous effect not only on US, but on the West in general.
We are no longer encouraged by the Establishment even to PRETEND to look UPWARD, but merely to focus our gaze toward the FLOOR stopping in most instances to dwell on our CROTCHES.
This avid pursuit of the of the Downward Path began early in the twentieth-century. It was fostered primarily by Cultural Marxist influence, which I readily admit came about as a response to the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution.
It's easier to persuade those trapped with clanking, roaring, often dangerous machinery in "Dark Sartanic Mills" ten-hours-a-day-six-days-a-week that they have "nothing to lose but the chains" by staging a violent rebellion against the owners and managerr of the factories than it was when most had only to toil in the soil, en plein air, as it were.
Nobody should have a right to act as a a niusance to anybody else regardless of their circumstances. "Equal Rights" should be interpreted to mean "I don't get to bug you, and you don't get to bug me. Period
Being richer should not mean the government has a right or a duty to play Robin Hood with your property, and being stupid sgouldn't mean that smarter people have an obligation to compensate you for your lack of ability.
If the communists - er progressives - ever get control, it won't be disguised at all. They're all about grabbing despotic power and not much else. All their "humanitarian" rhetoric is just so uch window dressing.
Live and let live. Too many people can no longer do that. It's inevitable when people no longer share culture, values and mores.
ReplyDeleteThat seems obvious to me too, but WHY do you think we are so fractured and fragmented today
DeleteCorrectly identifying the causative factors then doing whatever may be possible to get us out of our present predicament wold be our only hope of avoiding Perdition.
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace.
Where there is Hatred let me sow Love
Where there is Doubt Faith
Where there is Injury Pardon.
O ,Divine Master let me seek not so much
to be loved as to love,
to be consoled s to console,
to be pardoned as to pardon.
for it is in giving that we receive,
in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and in Dying that we are born into Eternal Life.
~ St. Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226 AD)
"Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me . . ."
We are no longer anything close to a homogeneous society, government powers are plenipotentiary and easily hijacked by whichever tribe won the last election, and the human will to control others is too strong.
DeleteThere is no going back. This is the new "normal." Wait till 5G gets here.
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DeleteWhat that means is that the liberal snowflakes need to shut their stupid yaps and stop telling everybody what to do! We believe in traditional American moral values, not the homosexual perversions and slaughter of babies!
ReplyDeleteYou'll never find gold in any safe space.
ReplyDelete...and that tilting at long dead and vanquished "fascist dragons" may be a Quixotic waste of time, but it's a waste of time none-the-less.
Delete"If you would have your life, first you must lose it."
DeleteJordan Peterson's a true Wise MAN –– as opposed to a Wise GUY.
I really like Jordan Peterson. He is full of wisdom, but he is ponderous takes a long time to say it. He has a podcast, and each one runs to almost two hours. If he could learn to condense it down, he would gain many more listeners.
DeleteGo see the JP movie then. :)
DeleteOh dear, Si;verFiddle! I'm sorry to asy you remind me of the scene in Amadeus where Mozart presented one of hs greatest works –– new minted –– and the Powers that Were on the Scene dismssed it saying, "You write too many notes –– TOO MANY NOTES!" };^)>
DeleteThroughout history in expressions of the vulgat popular culture, and the Bourgeois Philistine ignoranti" you'll find snide references to "classical music" as "boring, " "snobbish," "elitist," "confounding," "depressing," –– even "OPPRESSVE," etc.
Unfortunately, we reached the point in the twentieth century where the notiion, "If I don't like, it can't be any good," took hold, and after thatpeople who dared to ASPIRE towards greater understanding and apprecation of the finer, more ingenious, more complex things in life were mocked, jeered, and denigrated as "pretentious," "snobbish, " "highfalutin," "too big for their breeches," – you name it.
In panderng primarily to the Lowest Common Denominator either to sell more meretricious merchandise or to curry favor with the masses in order to gain political power has had a frankly ruinous effect not only on US, but on the West in general.
We are no longer encouraged by the Establishment even to PRETEND to look UPWARD, but merely to focus our gaze toward the FLOOR stopping in most instances to dwell on our CROTCHES.
This avid pursuit of the of the Downward Path began early in the twentieth-century. It was fostered primarily by Cultural Marxist influence, which I readily admit came about as a response to the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution.
It's easier to persuade those trapped with clanking, roaring, often dangerous machinery in "Dark Sartanic Mills" ten-hours-a-day-six-days-a-week that they have "nothing to lose but the chains" by staging a violent rebellion against the owners and managerr of the factories than it was when most had only to toil in the soil, en plein air, as it were.
"Brevity is the sould of wit"
DeleteBut then his podcasts would simply get censored...
DeleteYo should tell tat to Slavoj Zizek, Billy. ;-)
DeleteBut then "brevity" is often indicative of a shallow, incurious, lazy-minded, dismissive turn of mind than evidence of wit."
You colonists are so contentious. Egad! The lower classes must take their example from their betters.
ReplyDeleteSeen Joker?
DeleteMiss Lavinia Snively said:
DeleteI wouldn't be caught dead going to see disgusng travesty of that ilk.
Shame on you for even suggesting it!
Igor Stravinsky
DeleteOutstanding movie!
Oscar Wilde said:
Delete"Whatever is popular is wrong."
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DeleteOUR POLICY IS PLAINLY STATED WITH EVERY POST:
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DeleteWHAT DOES THIS SAY TO YOU?
ReplyDeleteAn expression of common sense! Never mind all the snowflakes and their "feelings."
George Hambleton Sexauer said
ReplyDeleteNobody should have a right to act as a a niusance to anybody else regardless of their circumstances. "Equal Rights" should be interpreted to mean "I don't get to bug you, and you don't get to bug me. Period
Being richer should not mean the government has a right or a duty to play Robin Hood with your property, and being stupid sgouldn't mean that smarter people have an obligation to compensate you for your lack of ability.
Rights schmights! The government is a thinly-disguised totalitarian oligarchy.
ReplyDeleteEric Von Kleist said
DeleteIf the communists - er progressives - ever get control, it won't be disguised at all. They're all about grabbing despotic power and not much else. All their "humanitarian" rhetoric is just so uch window dressing.
Libs would never understand this concept. Their entire decision making process is based on how they feel at any given moment.
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