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...
Senior Raccoons will remember a time, not too long ago, that abnormal people in our culture actually felt abnormal. They were aware of their deviancy, and how this deviancy contributed to an unhappiness that no government has the power to eliminate.
But under the guise of “tolerance” and multiculturalism, we have deprived these poor souls of the feedback they need in order to know that they are not normal. This is not empathy, but cruelty — like shielding someone from a cancer diagnosis on the grounds that it will make them feel bad, but depriving them of the chance to fight it.
In order to allow such people to feel normal in their abnormalcy, we have had to develop a deviant culture for them to live in, to such an extent that the normal are now made to feel abnormal.
This is one of the hidden influences of the Tea Party movement, and more generally the effort to take our country back from the deviant. Not surprisingly, this is enraging the abnormals of the left, as witnessed, for example, by the weird attempt to suggest that normal people somehow caused the patently abnormal Jared Loughner to open fire on a bunch of normal people.
If multiculturalism were true, it would mean that all cultures are of equal value. But this is equivalent to saying that there is no reality to which culture is an adaptation. As a result, culture devolves to a mere fantasy world. Which, of course, it is for the left. They are, by their own lights, not oriented to reality, since reality is just an oppressive white European male construct.
Hat tip to Gerard.
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I was impressed by that post m’self. I had forgotten about Gagdad Bob over there. I had sidebarred him a while back, and in my scaling back of my blog reading the last several months, had deprived myself of his musings.
- philmon | 01/15/2011 @ 21:24Yet another great example of the left’s manichaeism. You know, for a group that goes on and on and on (and on and on and on) about how sophisticated and tolerant and nuanced they are, the left is actually about as binary as machine code. It’s just that they have this one little trick to convince themselves they’re deep thinkers:
“Wow, that Lougher guy really was a weirdo,” you say. “Ahhh… but what is weird?” They reply. “What is considered deviant in some cultures is actually….” &c. And usually that’s the end of it, because everyone knows it’s polite to belch after dinner in Algeria or whatever and nobody wants to seem unsophisticated. But here’s the thing: Lougher (or whatever; I’m not going to trouble myself to learn to spell a psycho’s name) was weird from Albania to Zimbabwe. Full stop. That’s what we need to emphasize.
And it works the other way, too. If you say “gosh, some of this ‘gay lifestyle stuff’ has kinda gotten out of hand” they immediately come back with “so, you want them all closeted and killing themselves! / thrown into camps like the Nazis!” (depending on the hysterics of the liberal in question, of course). That there’s a continuum between “insisting that I’m totally cool with –and, indeed, celebrate— assless chaps and Abba records” and “the deepest, darkest closet one can find” never occurs to them. It’s either 100% or 100% evil. No exceptions.
[For the record, I’m picking “teh gay” because that occasions the most hysterics on both sides. I’m NOT a social-con, personally].
- Severian | 01/16/2011 @ 08:23