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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.
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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.
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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...
Jonah Goldberg writes in Town Hall:
For much of the summer, large numbers of Americans insisted that the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was one kind of story. It was a tale of institutional racism in which the police are the villains and young African-American men the innocent victims. This was the storyline many in the media wanted, and it was one they were determined to get.
Now, as a grand jury goes about prying fact from fiction, the story is falling apart as a matter of legal reality. But you can be sure the story will live on for decades to come. That’s in no small part because many decent Americans have locked themselves into the belief that the heroic chapter of the civil rights movement can never end. The story must go on so they can continue to cast themselves as the heroes.
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Modern-day environmentalism is full of talk about data and “settled science.” But science is never settled, because science is the craft of unsettling what we know at any given moment. If science could settle, man would never learn to fly or read by electric light. Meanwhile, inconvenient data is left on the cutting-room floor as an ancient story is retold in modern terms.“If you look carefully,” Michael Crichton once observed, “you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths.”
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I understand that the difference between narratives and ideas can be a subtle one. But if you keep the distinction in mind, the arguments tearing apart America become more comprehensible. It is a conflict of visions driven by adherents of two versions of the story of America. And whichever side wins, the victors will determine the story taught to the next generation.
That’s why controlling the narrative is important when you’re selling a bad idea.
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The story must go on so they can continue to cast themselves as the heroes.
That’s why the liberal version of history has all those weird gaps. As I forget who (George Washington?) once said, they’re forever trying to “Progress” from 1914 to 1915. They’ll crow endlessly about the Civil Rights movement, but they won’t say a word about Abolition. That’s a much bigger triumph if you’re playing Virtue Bingo, but alas, the Abolitionists were all evangelical Christians, and I’d wager that 99.9% of the Union soldiers who laid down their lives ending it had never even heard of Karl Marx.
Ain’t it funny how the “reality-based community” is forever making metaphysical devils out of poor, weak, flesh-n-blood humans?
- Severian | 10/28/2014 @ 05:27That doesn’t seem like something George Washington would have said. I think it must have been George von Mises Washington Carver or something.
- mkfreeberg | 10/31/2014 @ 01:15