tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post1467857066754608751..comments2023-10-19T21:48:56.560-05:00Comments on meaning in history: Suicide Of The Liberals?mark wauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-30927249814553710112020-09-18T23:31:58.919-05:002020-09-18T23:31:58.919-05:00Except conservatives have all the guns, and they a...Except conservatives have all the guns, and they aren't going to turn them in. CTDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04716968497758364477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-3235387681138740112020-09-18T21:17:30.566-05:002020-09-18T21:17:30.566-05:00"Critical race theory is a conscious attempt ..."Critical race theory is a conscious attempt by Marxists to destabilise the West using race as a vector to create social unrest in order to establish conditions under which a revolution against capitalism can occur."<br /><br />https://twitter.com/GreenwoodOutlaw/status/1307026744570982407Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-76426943104010647052020-09-18T20:13:06.114-05:002020-09-18T20:13:06.114-05:00Mark: This mess was prompted by your statement co...Mark: This mess was prompted by your statement concerning "The prominence that sexual disorder has for the modern Left . . ." I should have begun my post this that reference. I have long argued that the sexual disorder you describe is the only unifying theme of the democrat party. I was unable to find your insight as I was trying to put this comment into some coherent (?) form.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11603641921552583327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-85995419513171317612020-09-18T20:07:00.178-05:002020-09-18T20:07:00.178-05:00I'm reminded of William F. Buckley, reclining ...I'm reminded of William F. Buckley, reclining with his eyebrows doing their dance, in a conversation with Mortimer Adler if memory (very sketchy) serves: "We cannot immanentize the eschaton." This is all I can say to the above.<br /><br />Notwithstanding my inability to move the conversation forward, I offer this. Leanne Payne was a woman immersed in C. S. Lewis, a scholar, and Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11603641921552583327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-2573551713337391252020-09-18T18:52:55.128-05:002020-09-18T18:52:55.128-05:00Marx created his own poverty. His views placed hi...Marx created his own poverty. His views placed him in exile in London.<br /><br />His “proletariat” plight was not due to oppression of capitalism or a capitalist system.<br /><br />- TexasDude Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-30720473223594338662020-09-18T18:42:53.057-05:002020-09-18T18:42:53.057-05:00See where RBG has diedSee where RBG has diedMike Edmonsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09715497998545552826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-59800993057639849252020-09-18T17:25:53.126-05:002020-09-18T17:25:53.126-05:00Marxism and Keynesianism is a method of understand...Marxism and Keynesianism is a method of understanding and comparing the works of influential economists John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx. Both men's works has fostered respective schools of economic thought (Marxian economics and Keynesian economics) that have had significant influence in various academic circles as well as in influencing government policy of various states. Keynes' workAmericanCardigannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-64052850264663372522020-09-18T17:24:43.757-05:002020-09-18T17:24:43.757-05:00In less than erudite terms, all of this seems to b...In less than erudite terms, all of this seems to boil down to, "get them before they get us". And yes, they will try to get us first. It's the natural way of totalitarians. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-74006818497314159682020-09-18T16:36:10.134-05:002020-09-18T16:36:10.134-05:00Whitey's patriarchy tryna keep me down!Whitey's patriarchy tryna keep me down!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-874666235410885422020-09-18T15:59:46.016-05:002020-09-18T15:59:46.016-05:00No, but while people weren't paying attention ...No, but while people weren't paying attention at least one generation has been brought up in ignorance of history.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-60048184938226595972020-09-18T15:39:52.200-05:002020-09-18T15:39:52.200-05:00Not all of the old books have been burned...yet.Not all of the old books have been burned...yet.Mojlnirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-63942240139907090862020-09-18T15:11:18.327-05:002020-09-18T15:11:18.327-05:00So who knows history any longer? Now it's &quo...So who knows history any longer? Now it's "history" that's taught in the schools.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-34001184590432788632020-09-18T15:09:02.576-05:002020-09-18T15:09:02.576-05:00The point is that when there are no secondary, non...The point is that when there are no secondary, non-governmental institutions with social authority the individual is largely left to fend for himself against the state. It's an unequal battle, and the goal of all totalitarian movements.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-41491208712659398212020-09-18T15:03:04.836-05:002020-09-18T15:03:04.836-05:00I am one who fell away from institutional religion...I am one who fell away from institutional religion when I realized how hypocritical my church had become… I didn’t need intercession with God, preferring to speak to Him directly, and then our “institutional church”, where we had been regular members for years, let us down in our time of need. That clinched it.<br /><br />Having been raised in a family where belief in God was a given from Bebenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-462525098580121542020-09-18T15:00:18.959-05:002020-09-18T15:00:18.959-05:00Again, I would recommend Codevilla's Millenari...Again, I would recommend Codevilla's Millenarian Mobs - the last two paragraphs:<br /><br />"The logic of millennialist revolution is very much alive among us. History teaches that the names of the evils—of the supposedly oppressed and their oppressors, as well as their grievances—are interchangeable and irrelevant. Today, we need not imagine that the corporate magnates, the hard-bitten Mojlnirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-4353057667229595202020-09-18T14:41:41.210-05:002020-09-18T14:41:41.210-05:00In fact I had exactly that in mind. Not that it ha...In fact I had exactly that in mind. Not that it hadn't occurred to me before, just that the interview made an impression.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-19722767560918736792020-09-18T14:39:05.766-05:002020-09-18T14:39:05.766-05:00If you didn't see the actor Jim Caviezel's...If you didn't see the actor Jim Caviezel's interview last night by Shannon Bream you should watch it. He was plugging his new movie 'Infidel' but the conversation moved into religion where Caviezel unloads on today's church leadership.<br /><br />DJLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-79336477859935145302020-09-18T14:27:29.189-05:002020-09-18T14:27:29.189-05:00I guess I mean something like this: that by and la...I guess I mean something like this: that by and large the churches in America have abandoned almost any pretension to guiding human life in all but the vaguest of terms, especially as that guidance would affect public life. Instead, they've largely assimilated to progressivism, in fact if not always in theory. As a result, individuals are left on their own with no institutional voices mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-53555398728760272682020-09-18T14:26:21.028-05:002020-09-18T14:26:21.028-05:00The American Bolsheviks seem to have either run ou...The American Bolsheviks seem to have either run out of steam - or have been given new marching orders from their financiers and hidden leadership. Perhaps the poll numbers caused them to rethink the revolution and let the election play out. Either way, they'll be able to recommence after the election, no matter the victor; but it would a softer coup with Biden in place. At least that is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-91188188629777244382020-09-18T14:15:09.584-05:002020-09-18T14:15:09.584-05:00I would need to know your definition of “instituti...I would need to know your definition of “institutional spiritual resources” before I could respond...Bebenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-91357738509511936682020-09-18T14:00:45.033-05:002020-09-18T14:00:45.033-05:00Sooner or later? And what happens when it hits bot...Sooner or later? And what happens when it hits bottom? My fear is that America lacks the institutional spiritual resources to stop the slide.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-71009760360251357572020-09-18T13:58:31.504-05:002020-09-18T13:58:31.504-05:00I assume that you mean "the craziest are also...I assume that you mean "the craziest are also among the oldest, in very manY cases:"<br /><br />"Socialized to regard anything conservative as reprehensible—and still worse, as a social *faux pas*..."<br />Akin to Hillary on Deplorables, as socially beneath the Educated classes.<br /><br />My sense of that period in Russian history is that, as discredited as Czarist aNanyMousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452492302514671882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-68941468238417868762020-09-18T13:54:26.075-05:002020-09-18T13:54:26.075-05:00I have used that pendulum in talking about what is...I have used that pendulum in talking about what is going on in California’s government. I believe Gavin Newsom and his cronies have pushed the pendulum about as far as it can go. Surely there are moderate Democrats and those No Party Preference voters (the latter make up 1/3 of the registered voters now; the Dems have only 46%) who are fed up with what they have done to ALL Californians. ThatBebenoreply@blogger.com