Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Had an older relative e-mail me a link to these. Most interesting seeing put into words, for the very first time in my experience, what I’ve seen in act and spirit so many times…especially lately. Especially items #4 and #12.
RULE 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
RULE 2: Never go outside the expertise of your people.
RULE 3: Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
RULE 4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
RULE 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
RULE 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
RULE 7: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
RULE 8: Keep the pressure on. Never let up.
RULE 9: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
RULE 10: If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.
RULE 11: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
I’m just teasing the first sentence of each; you have to read the paragraphs to get the full essence. But I am impressed, not so much by what is present, but by what is missing.
Two things.
Intellectuality. It is used, here, solely for the purpose of winning and for no other purpose at all. In all other aspects, the behavior that is dictated by these rules is the behavior of savage animals.
And that brings me to the second thing I see missing: A sense of unity…harmony…symbiosis…coming together to solve common problems. Everything is strategic. And I mean the classic-dictionary, military school meaning of strategic:
Intended to render the enemy incapable of making war, as by the destruction of materials, factories, etc.: a strategic bombing mission.
Against an enemy. So these are twelve rules that, following the fulfillment of the progressive dream of constructing that utopia in which we “all” can live, would have no place anywhere whatsoever.
So these are rules for hard-left types to use when they lack any semblance of culture, civility, intellectuality, and any intent of living in peace or harmony with diverse points of view. You know, those two things are exactly what “progressives” are supposed to support…everlastingly and unconditionally. Well, they don’t support those things all the time.
But the lefty types we know, do support the above twelve rules — pretty much all the time.
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Clearly no coincidence.
The twelve-step program for ex-Obamaites is the anodyne for the twelve Alinskyisms.
- Robert Arvanitis | 05/08/2009 @ 10:30The stuff about peace and harmony is for the rubes. The real goal is power. But you knew that already. I just wanted to mention that I linked this one and two more of yours in one of mine.
- Hector Owen | 05/08/2009 @ 20:58[…] you’re seeing is Saul Alinsky’s twelfth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Once conservatives are made into something foreign, it is okay to wish all kinds of intolerance […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 11/04/2009 @ 23:42