House of Eratosthenes

A few days ago, The Blog That Nobody Reads opined away about — believe it or not — liberals. Yeah, we never do that. Specifically, what caught our eye was a Sixties’ Kid waxing eloquently at the rest of us, talking down to us about where to go from here: Ditching capitalism, the sooner, the better.

What if we began to ask whether corporate consumerism was really the ultimate flowering of America’s promise? For one thing, capitalism as we know it would fade away. But since it may be doing that anyway, we might be wise to drop our resistance and bid it a fond farewell. We could thank it for its efficient promotion of the Industrial Revolution, while observing that by creating an interconnected world it has rendered its own creed of frenetic competition obsolete. A satellite can’t go into orbit till its booster rocket falls away. If the accounting system is in flames, let it drop and disintegrate, mission accomplished.

The first thing to raise my red flag wasn’t the liberalism, and it wasn’t the anti-capitalism, and it wasn’t the hemp-stench of the sixties-ism. It was the description of all of us living and working “together,” all “connected,” celebrating that supposed unicellular state that binds all of us, even while commenting on all the options this eliminates.

I am deeply suspicious of people like this. They drone on at length about how we are all one being. They drone on at length about all the things this means we cannot do. They don’t say one word about how this makes us more capable of doing something. But always, this interconnectedness is an occasion for celebration, not for some kind of action. Anything to do with independence, individuality, etc. — capitalism, for example — get rid of it. It’s yucky, icky-poo.

What can we do once we get that done? Once the booster is jettisoned? Just be wonderful all day long?

This Is The Daw-Ning Of The Age…Of…A-Quar-Ee-Us…

But of far greater concern is how these collectivists talk once they get the idea people are acknowledging this connectedness. First step after that milestone is reached: Re-define the concept of “everyone”:

…their definition of everyone excludes quite a few folks, folks just as real as any other, that they don’t want to talk about. Their Utopia is a sort of modern version of Noah’s Ark, built from stem to stern for the express purpose of providing a shelter to an elite crowd…leaving the balance behind. In their world, “everyone” never really means everyone. And they don’t want to admit it.

Now, I don’t know if Rush Limbaugh reads this blog. I’ve always kind of assumed hardly anyone ever does. But how, then, do you explain this item from Monday, of which we learn via blogger friend Rick:

Colin Powell, ladies and gentlemen, insists that conservatives and Republicans support candidates who will appeal to minorities like I guess McCain who led the effort for amnesty. He insists that conservatives and Republicans move to the center like McCain, who calls himself a maverick for doing so. General Powell insists that conservatives and Republicans provide an open tent to different ideas and views, like I guess McCain, who repeatedly trashed Republicans and made nice with Democrats. I mean, their tent’s big, they just don’t want us in it. John McCain is and was Colin Powell’s ideal candidate. All these moderates, Bill Weld, all these moderates that crossed the aisle and voted for Obama, they got their ideal candidate, and they got their ideal campaign in McCain. Once McCain was nominated as the Republican candidate, largely by independents and Democrats voting in Republican primaries, Colin Powell waited ’til the last minute, when it would do the most damage to McCain and the Republicans and endorsed Obama. And when I said it was largely about race, that’s what set ’em all off, you’re not supposed to say these kinds of things. This is supposed to go unspoken.

So if we try to understand Powell’s thinking, which is difficult since it’s incoherent, we should have all voted for McCain in the primaries, and once he was nominated, we should have voted for Obama for president. That’s what we should have all done, if you listen to what Powell said on CNN yesterday. There’s something interesting — and Snerdley picked up on this — he said that Powell in the CNN interview is talking to Republican leaders about tossing me out, when I’m not in. (laughing) This remains to me to be the funny thing here. It would be one thing if Republicans were listening to me and going down in flames, but they’re not, and they haven’t for the longest time. So Powell is talking to Republican leaders about tossing me out of the party, and people should stop listening to me and helping Democrats with any legislation that might be aimed at taming talk radio. This is what Snerdley thinks he meant by virtue of what he said in that interview. He did say he’s talking to the leaders — leaders of what? The Republican Party? He’s getting together to talk with the leaders about me? When was the last time I was on a ballot? When was the last time I raised money? When was the last time I wrote a plank in the party platform? [emphasis mine]

This is a recurrent theme going down, nowadays, just about everywhere you look. Things are excluded from other things, and then when the dust has all hit the ground, we’re all supposed to pretend they were included and not excluded. Things are alienated from certain decision-making processes, and after the decisions turn to crapola, we’re all supposed to pretend the things that were so alienated, were in charge of the mess from Day One.

So now — Republicans are supposed to take a lesson from the elections and steer toward the left? That’s what they did when they nominated McCain, wasn’t it? No? Someone tell me, please. Back when McCain emerged as the front-runner, if Republicans were supposed to do a better job veering off to the left, who else were they supposed to have picked?

We need to jettison capitalism because it’s screwed us over so badly, huh? Hmm. I’m typing this on a laptop that was created and then sold to me — through capitalism…I got a feeling the same is true of Mr. Mo Hanan and this drivel he scribbled down, above.

This is pretty frightening stuff when you ponder where it leads: Collectivists, determined to create a new society that includes “everyone,” with their own surreal otherworldly definition of what “everyone” means. Although I agree with everything Rush said, above, he really should stop laughing.

He Who Walks On Water — the most powerful human on the entire planet, come January 20, and so far not a single soul can coherently explain why — elaborates:

It’s a system in Washington that has failed the American people. A system that has not kept the most fundamental trust of American democracy: that our government is of the people, and that it must govern for all the people – not just the interests of the wealthy and well-connected. [emphasis mine]

This is the scary side to the Unicorn Fart Man. Can you imagine anything more truly frightening than someone who pours such energy into pretending to bring “everyone” along, while fully intending, down to the very marrow of His Holy Bones, to leave some behind? What could be scarier than that? Anybody want to bet me some large money that when He says “the wealthy and well-connected” — He is talking about Himself? George Soros? Ted Kennedy? Hillary Clinton?

What about the “all the people” part? Does that include conservative Republicans? He wants the new “system” to govern for conservative Republicans? How about Joe The Plumber? Are we going to get a government of, by, and for Joe The Plumber, along with “everyone” else?

Eh, don’t make me laugh.

Like I said, Noah’s Ark wasn’t built primarily to keep the exclusive club afloat. The point of the project was to kill off everything else.

Rush is right. Rush is right because he repeated what I said. The folks from the kiddie table who are now going to start running things, are one and the same as the folks who ran the Republican Party this year — and their tent’s big, but they don’t want the real “everyone” in it. If the real “everyone” is allowed in, why take all the time and trouble to build the damn thing in the first place?

Of course, what they mean is that they want to be able to offer something to everyone. They want to know what our price is for giving up our individual freedom. Everyone has a price, they think.

Democrats want to take a little away from everyone to offer to all individuals in order to agree to pay a little to everyone. Intelligent people recognize this as a pyramid scheme, which works only so long as new people are being recruited, but it is not sustainable. Eventually there are no more new recruits and the money runs out. That’s when they’ll have to use more and more coercive measures against non-members.

The only reason for the creation of the pyramid scheme was in order to skim some off the top in the first place. People help each other without being forced to do it.
- JohnJ | 12/16/2008 @ 12:48

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