Political Correctness is a way of being wrong.
"Social justice is injustice. What is just about taking money off
people who have earned it and giving it to people who have not earned
it? You can call it many things but justice it is not."
-- John J. Ray
Narcissism, especially in the political realm, isn't concerned with the injuries and burdens inflicted on other people. The more destructive the consequences of obedience to those who obey the narcissist, the better. Human sacrifice with beating hearts cut out and victims flayed alive, that's great. Millions worked to death in slave labor camps in Siberia, that's better. As far as the narcissist is concerned. It's not just an issue of tax policy. Before one can say, "this is wrong, I won't do it", one has to say "I". Conscience is the expression of the ego in the moral realm. To make a moral judgment and to act on it are basically selfish acts. It's the self that sees through its own eyes and acts on its own knowledge of right and wrong. You can't really be selfish if you can't live with yourself. Rational Selfishness as Ayn Rand tried to define and advocate was limited to acts which benefited one's self but caused no affirmative harm or inflicted a cost on another person.
BOOK REVIEW
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The Ominous Parallels--The End of Freedom in America. Leonard Peikoff. New York: NAL Penguin, Inc., 1982. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-60247. ix + 316 pages plus references and index.. Soft cover $10.00.
Reviewed by Red Barchetta
This book asks: "What caused Nazi Germany?" Unlike lesser attempts to explain that blood bath, The Ominous Parallels answers: "The same philosophies that are prevalent in the United States of America." Dr. Peikoff argues convincingly that in both countries the intellectual, educational and political leadership share, explicitly or implicitly, the same core ideologies. These ideologies submit that reality is subjective--a malleable illusion; emotions are the proper guide to human action--especially the emotions of race and the tribe, which cannot be understood by outsiders; self-sacrifice for the sake of others should usurp a man's own desires--and the state must take any necessary action to ensure that sacrifice. These ideologies demand that "individual selfishness" does not obstruct the path of "the public interest."
From Part One, Chapter One: " 'To be a socialist,' says Goebbels, 'is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.' By this definition, the Nazis practiced what they preached. They practiced it at home and then abroad. No one can claim that they did not sacrifice enough individuals."
The underlying theme in The Ominous Parallels is how philosophy shapes cultures, and reading this book, it is difficult to escape a feeling of hopeless dread; of being caught in racing floodwaters and swept madly toward a destruction you are helpless to prevent. Given the theme of this nation's descent into fascism, and Dr. Peikoff's uncompromising method of proving it, that is the proper effect.
The conclusion of The Ominous Parallels is not that we are helplessly destined to go to the same lengths down the same road as Germany. The conclusion is that it is time for us to choose whether or not we will; that if we fail to consciously decide, the decision will be made for us. Contrary to the bleating of irrationalists then or now, it is only a coherent philosophy of reason and individual rights which will give us the means to choose not to become our own slaughterhouse.
Dr. Peikoff shows that such a philosophy is not prevalent in the United States because, although this nation was unique in being founded on philosophic ideals (rather than arbitrary land-grabs and tribal warfare), it was ultimately lacking a coherent detailed formulation of those ideals, as well as the Aristotelian philosophers to create one. Independence from Europe was only won physically--not ideologically. "The land of poets and philosophers was brought down by its poets and philosophers," says Peikoff. The resulting bowel movement of docile Nazi sheep who obeyed their Fuhrer because they obeyed their philosophers could indeed be us, for their philosophers--their pragmatists and Kants, their Hegels and Marxes--are ours
by adoption.
We do have one trump card, "...the philosophical breach between the American people and the intellectuals." In Germany, the intellectuals and the people were united in ideology, feeling at home in their country and with each other. This, says Peikoff, is not yet the case in America. Peikoff's book will help to keep it that way.
Humanity is not merely a physical condition, it is a state of mind. To be human is to be essentially rational and productive. The human mentality (or soul) looks upon the world, the land, the animals and plants, the natural forces, as things to be mastered for the benefit of himself and his posterity. On the other hand, the predator, or savage mentality does not seek to to master the world, but to be the master of men. The savage prefers not to sustain himself by his own effort, but to seize and consume the lives and property of others for material and spiritual sustenance. To the predator, justice consists of "getting away with it" -- those who rightfully resist the predator are to be punished or destroyed.
-- Leslie Bates, The Resister, Vol VI, N. 1, Page 42
Revolutions happen because the ruling class does something really stupid. In the American case it's simply to exist.
The effectiveness of totalitarian gun control as described by the commander of the 106th Guards Airborne Division of the Soviet Army. One of the units sent to suppress an anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan. As told to Carey Schofield author of The Russian Elite: Inside SPETSNAZ And The Airborne Forces.
"We landed by night, and some of our aircraft came under attack as we did so. One carrying personnel from Tula landed with twenty-two holes in the fuselage. The people thronging around the airfield were armed with sub-machine guns, knives and clubs. I went over to the crowd and said, 'Look! The Army is not a cat to be swung around in the air. Clear the road!' The KPP (Control and Command Post) of the airfield was blocked with KRAZ and KAMAZ trucks loaded with boulders. People started shouting that we wouldn't get through. While I was talking to the crowds my sappers were cutting the wire fence about 200 meters to the left and right of the KPP. I gave the crowds five minutes to think things over. They began jeering and laughing. Within five minutes two companies from my Ryazan regiment had crossed through the holes in the wire. The whole crowd was ordered to lie face down. We kept them there all night, to let them think things over. When we told them to clear off, the next morning, nobody wanted to admit that he had come armed. They all just left their weapons behind. So I said, 'okay, let's just say we found them'."
If gun control doesn't keep firearms out of the hands of criminals
(genocidal criminals at that) in the Soviet Union it's not going to do so
in the United States Of America.
The fact of the matter is that Leftists see people as something to be used. If a person is unusable why keep them alive? In a truly free society the truly generous would step in to help. In the nightmare of Socialism, where all resources are under the control of the state only the rulers and those who can be used matter. Every single Leftist is a firm believer in the use others theory. The idea of the inalienable right of life is completely alien to them.
We need to face the fact that the present day Left like the barbarians who plagued civilization before them are essentially parasites. Control of the productive population is essential for their survival and well being. Compulsion is inherently necessary to the parasite manner of existence. Those who resisted had to be killed as an object lesson for others. The Left barbarians not only need material support they also need spiritual support as well. They need to feel that their victims are not only submitting to them today but will do so tomorrow as well. Barbarian chieftains and tribal witch doctors demanded degrading and often dangerous acts of worship from their subjects, up to and including human sacrifice, in order to assure themselves that they'll still have a roof over their heads and food to eat the next day. Those who refused to obey were assaulted or killed. In the meeting places of the Left the demand is for unquestioned agreement without regard to the actual facts of reality. Leftists are the first to demand censorship lest they be identified as frauds and subsequently bounced out of their comfortable fantasy worlds no longer insulated from a real world that demands real thought and real labor. The Left being dependent upon others for their sustenance must stand in opposition to the society of rational consent and openly support systems of compulsion. Because to do otherwise is to condemn themselves to death.
The Left abhors the thought of being judged by their character because they have none. What's present is the black hole of their lust for power. A desire for control over every aspect of our lives that distorts or destroys everything that comes within their influence. The positive side is that if we don't drop below their moral event horizon we can escape from their influence. But we'll be damaged as a result.
It's time to treat the FBI like a criminal gang.
Do Russian nukes actually work?
Just because someone else is holding the gun doesn't change the fact that someone is engaged in the act of robbery. Leftists hate not being in charge. No matter how incompetent they are.
I'll die before I vote for a Democrat.
Environmentalists are the Enemies Of Mankind. They need to treated as such. Environmentalists need to be stood against a wall and shot.
Faith and Force always go together.
To deny free will is to deny personal responsibility for one's own
actions. In an age when one can kill more people with the stroke of a
pen than with a lifetime's use of a personal weapon that's a pretty
useful excuse.
I don't want to be the Messiah. Being crucified sucks.
I'm surrounded by morons.
Those who think for themselves will automatically come to the conclusion that Collectivism is false.
Now it's correct to point out that Atheism alone is not inherently a
virtue. To be a proper Atheist should be the result of practicing the
virtue of rationality. But many people have apparently
bought into the fraud that Communism is an inherently Atheist doctrine.
From the absolute origin the doctrine of Communism was the result of the
rejection of Reason. In fact the doctrine of Communism is essentially
an excuse to behave as predatory animals. Thus all conceptions of a
moral law including virtually all laws based
on the doctrine of a religion must be rejected outright. As God is
held to be the author of moral law in the Western Monotheist Tradition
his existence must be denied by the practicing Communist. This leads to
the posture of Communists of being Atheists.
The fact is power over productive people is fundamental goal of the
practicing Communist and therefore they'll use any excuse or body of
excuses to obtain it.
The more I look at the ongoing disaster in Washington the more I want
someone in our armed forces to step up and overthrow the morons who call
themselves an administration.
Because it's a deliberate body of falsehoods created by a con artist Scientology must hold that the act of identification, which is to see things as they truly are, as something that must be forbidden and punished. In a world ruled by Scientologists the truly conscious must be be put down with lethal effect.
Democracy is the form of state that claims unlimited power from a
mandate from an unlimited mass.
For those who desire absolute power Democracy is an ideal form of the
state. But in Reality authority in any area is based on actual
knowledge in
that field. Thus political authority must be based on knowledge in the
field of politics. But in the democratic form of the state the voter
isn't required to know anything on the subject of ethics, or politics,or
in the case of Chicago to actually exist.
So why should we as Americans be subject to the will of Democrats?
WE SHOULD NOT.
Democrats in general have shown that they aren't at all concerned about
the actual facts of Reality. Nor are they concerned about the
consequences of their actions. That we'll suffer and die as a result
of their actions means absolutely nothing to them.
So why should we submit to them let alone allow them to exist?
WE SHOULD NOT AT ALL.
Climate change is a fundamental fact of nature. It has occurred
naturally and it will happen NATURALLY. There's nothing we can do
about it. The demand for the unlimited power to stop climate change is
pure nonsense. It's also an act of pure tyranny and therefore
intolerable to us.
I've commented on the insanity of the media decades ago in The New Devil's Dictionary.
Journalists: 1. A group of people who have failed to grasp the fact that Karl Marx was full of it. 2. A group of truly righteous people. 3. A bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the counter-revolution comes.
Pravdaism: When a media outlet deliberately lies on the behalf of a political faction instead of reporting the facts.
The beat down by the Neo-Nazi garbage (and I will use that term) that you’ve been expecting?
It won’t happen.
So why won’t it happen?
Because the Neo-Nazi thugs that you were told that supported President Trump never existed.
YOU WERE LIED TO.
By the professors and the main stream media. You were also lied to by the serious supporters of the false president Joe Biden..
You
can go outside of the so called safe spaces and you'll find peaceful and
normal people who're glad that the treasonous bastard will no longer occupy
the White House. Not one of them is a Brownshirt in hiding waiting
for the chance to beat you up.
