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Capt-Dax Are Antifa Dems? Do you think they work for the Democratic political party?
Antifa is not an army.
"Communist" just doesn't have the negative force it had in the 50s, not surprisingly since it never was what the U.S. propaganda said it was. It's a very lame and faintly ridiculous slur now.
Your link is about the historical Italian fascists who evidently wore black shirts. Antifa, of course, means 'anti-fascist'.
OIC, a Trekkie reference (avatar pic).
Antifa is not an army.
"Communist" just doesn't have the negative force it had in the 50s, not surprisingly since it never was what the U.S. propaganda said it was. It's a very lame and faintly ridiculous slur now.
Your link is about the historical Italian fascists who evidently wore black shirts. Antifa, of course, means 'anti-fascist'.
OIC, a Trekkie reference (avatar pic).
How has it come to be that our universities, societal norms and cultural values have taken a sharp turn down the road of instilling stupidity - instead of intelligence?the usual "everyone has got it wrong - but us" narrative. wonder what their combined iq might look like
Just a bit of silliness really, right? Isn't this a test for these students? The students think they will get what from these overpriced palaces of thought control? Pain is the medium of exchange... and the students will pay.... as students of life... if they haven't yet it on the streets, in the hoods, at home etc, then they can pay for the lesson at these 'universities'. Learn/teach... teach/learn.... perfect.
might be an outdated idea; but when i went to university, the general idea was to become qualified to to get a job. back then; it even worked/(still working). but now the students have obviously turned to phatological thinking
gdpetti Well stated.
I often wonder if WE are the last of the hackneyed expression that "I had to walk to school*, through the snow, wind rain, and it was uphill . . .BOTH WAYS!! But I did learn the value of self preservation (NOT looking to the 'crowd' of barely interested cattle/sheeple) very very early, and earned what I've earned by EARNING IT!
The 'don't trust anyone over 30' mantra/meme always seemed to me to be incredibly stupid and painfully short sighted, as I fully intended to make age 30 and still be the same 'trustworthy' soul I am proud to believe as true is/was still valid to this very day.
I DID happen to spend the Summer of 1969 (~5/15-7/5/69) in Berkeley, Oakland, San Fran, et al. [My dad was posted back to Sunnyvale for over some period which allowed him to bring his family. I remember it all quite clearly; Baby You're a Rich Man' on the "National Airlines: Jet Airplane; they gave my brother and I 'Pilot Wings' and my sisters got Stewardess badges or such, and I remember my big sister raising hell about it (true!).... she got thrown off the plane and tasered... (joking)
Went to Haight Asbury that summer Berkeley et al, all of it, (I was born in Oakland) TRUE!; and then, when Hendrix needed backup at Monterey? (or something like that) I was hired as I was a prodigy. FALSE!
*Never mentioned - PUBLIC school.
R.C.
I often wonder if WE are the last of the hackneyed expression that "I had to walk to school*, through the snow, wind rain, and it was uphill . . .BOTH WAYS!! But I did learn the value of self preservation (NOT looking to the 'crowd' of barely interested cattle/sheeple) very very early, and earned what I've earned by EARNING IT!
The 'don't trust anyone over 30' mantra/meme always seemed to me to be incredibly stupid and painfully short sighted, as I fully intended to make age 30 and still be the same 'trustworthy' soul I am proud to believe as true is/was still valid to this very day.
I DID happen to spend the Summer of 1969 (~5/15-7/5/69) in Berkeley, Oakland, San Fran, et al. [My dad was posted back to Sunnyvale for over some period which allowed him to bring his family. I remember it all quite clearly; Baby You're a Rich Man' on the "National Airlines: Jet Airplane; they gave my brother and I 'Pilot Wings' and my sisters got Stewardess badges or such, and I remember my big sister raising hell about it (true!).... she got thrown off the plane and tasered... (joking)
Went to Haight Asbury that summer Berkeley et al, all of it, (I was born in Oakland) TRUE!; and then, when Hendrix needed backup at Monterey? (or something like that) I was hired as I was a prodigy. FALSE!
*Never mentioned - PUBLIC school.
R.C.
I'm thinking about the idea that some of this is organic and some is manipulated. To me, that's a crucial point that deserves investigation! Developmentally, in western humanity, we are seeing an intense desire for independent identity, and the impulse to enshrine (make a religion) out of the self. That's the organic part.
My sense is that increasing efforts to control people is actually in response to this organic impulse. It's easy to control groups, much harder to control individuals. However, if the individuals can be manipulated in terms of this need they have for sovereignty, it is still possible. Identity politics seems to be about the rights of protected groups. However, it's the exact opposite. It's about individual rights to be protected from coercive aspects of group identity. That's why it appeals. For example, if white people can repudiate the actions and privileges that accrue from being white, they imagine that they are 'freed' from group participation, and become more sovereign. People are being manipulated to perceive that any group identity is a threat to personal sovereignty. It's all about their personal perspective, whatever that is. "You hurt me because I say you hurt me", and the anxiety/danger equivalence, though they don't make rational sense, make perfect sense when seen from this sovereign-self perspective.
This organic situation is a potential threat to oligarchy. If people can repudiate group identity, they can also (theoretically) repudiate centralized group control tactics. Pathocrats are working quite consciously to weaken the abilities of individuals to use the powers of the sovereign self for their own benefit. To do this, they've purposefully engendered societal factors that maximize feelings of fragility (destruction of the family through economic instability, psychological weakening through early removal from the care of the mother). They've also increased the tendency to engage in emotional reasoning in the education process (over-emphasizing superficial facts/opinions/processes, trivializing the value of a search for truth, and reducing the role of self-reflection or experience of having personal control over the learning process). They then use media to create the problem-reaction-solution scenarios that trigger these weaknesses in order to justify political/economic centralization and marginalize people who might be critical (engage in "conspiracy theories").
It's a witches brew - a very dangerous and challenging time for mankind.
My sense is that increasing efforts to control people is actually in response to this organic impulse. It's easy to control groups, much harder to control individuals. However, if the individuals can be manipulated in terms of this need they have for sovereignty, it is still possible. Identity politics seems to be about the rights of protected groups. However, it's the exact opposite. It's about individual rights to be protected from coercive aspects of group identity. That's why it appeals. For example, if white people can repudiate the actions and privileges that accrue from being white, they imagine that they are 'freed' from group participation, and become more sovereign. People are being manipulated to perceive that any group identity is a threat to personal sovereignty. It's all about their personal perspective, whatever that is. "You hurt me because I say you hurt me", and the anxiety/danger equivalence, though they don't make rational sense, make perfect sense when seen from this sovereign-self perspective.
This organic situation is a potential threat to oligarchy. If people can repudiate group identity, they can also (theoretically) repudiate centralized group control tactics. Pathocrats are working quite consciously to weaken the abilities of individuals to use the powers of the sovereign self for their own benefit. To do this, they've purposefully engendered societal factors that maximize feelings of fragility (destruction of the family through economic instability, psychological weakening through early removal from the care of the mother). They've also increased the tendency to engage in emotional reasoning in the education process (over-emphasizing superficial facts/opinions/processes, trivializing the value of a search for truth, and reducing the role of self-reflection or experience of having personal control over the learning process). They then use media to create the problem-reaction-solution scenarios that trigger these weaknesses in order to justify political/economic centralization and marginalize people who might be critical (engage in "conspiracy theories").
It's a witches brew - a very dangerous and challenging time for mankind.
lsjarvi This segues quite well with a comment I just made at the below SOTT article:
R.C.
*I HATE that word, as over 95% of its usage is in defense or justification for some PC absurdity.
RC
Brain scans of US embassy staff to Cuba may show abnormalities
Brain scans of US embassy staff who became ill in mysterious circumstances while serving in Cuba have found potential abnormalities that may be related to their symptoms. The scans taken from 40..."What better way for the PTB/CIA et al. to illegally test effects of a new weapon on Americans in particular than to do so in Cuba?Such a weapon would likely be directed at/against the individuality of those Americans over age 30 who grew up in an infinitely morre open minded environment, which concurrently encouraged and 'empowered'* individuality.
Cui bono?"
R.C.
*I HATE that word, as over 95% of its usage is in defense or justification for some PC absurdity.
RC
The Coddling of the American Mind sounds like a good read. At the root of it I see market forces to blame. The university is in many respects the last remnant of the guild system of medieval Europe. The usurpation of power by the students and the administrators is very much an attempt to further corporatize the university system after the private model, which is autocratically hierarchical and as an accountability system imposed onto the faculty which has historically never existed (and let's be honest, it can't really coexist with the disinterested pursuit of knowledge).
In reactionary literature this is called the high wielding the low against the middle, since the middle have always been the greater threat to the high. The administrators court the students/customers into imposing mob politics onto the faculty to bring them into line. The Marxism, feminism, and 3rd world grievance industry is just a means toward those ends.
In reactionary literature this is called the high wielding the low against the middle, since the middle have always been the greater threat to the high. The administrators court the students/customers into imposing mob politics onto the faculty to bring them into line. The Marxism, feminism, and 3rd world grievance industry is just a means toward those ends.
Began listening to this as audiobook. Recommended! This book is thought-provoking and interesting, it will keep you awake, while you work or drive!
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