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UPDATE 2/6/24: The UN continues its presence as a great infected boil on the face of civilized humanity.
UPDATE 1/29/24: The No-Carbon Caviar crowd in Davos has just had some of the fun taken out of its evil Champagne dreams for the rest of us by one very refreshing wild man from Argentina swinging a spiked libertarian wrecking ball.
UPDATE 1/29/23: We have become a banana republic when those in political power can nullify the Constitution and our basic rights and determine whom we vote for. Whether we are to remain permanently reduced to this serfdom is dependent upon the results of Election, 2024.
UPDATE 3/29/23: “Those who claim to be the sole designers of our future will rob us of all our rights to that future and in that future. If we let them get away with this, their victory will be final and there will be no return.” A new book entitled The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism.
UPDATE 1/26/22: The real victims of Wokeism, remaking the world to the specs of a Master Planning elite, are human beings relegated to the status of lifeless pawns destined to be moved about in service to some great Utopian ideal. The Big Ideas of our superiors consisting only of hot air matter, not human lives, Black or otherwise.
UPDATE 12/4/21: Elitism, noblesse oblige, the rule of a privileged few over the faceless many, is always at the heart of modern tyranny. This includes not only those in political power but equally their deluded, slavish followers vicariously experiencing their own fake sense of omnipotence.
UPDATE 10/9/21: Those we once considered “public servants” in government have now morphed, movie monster style, into soulless automatons pulling the major levers of power. An ominous specter.
UPDATE 7/2/21: The Master Planner is the ultimate in insanity, possessed of a hunger for power that can never be sated. What better example than Harry Lime’s (Orson Welles) speech to Holly Martins(Joseph Cotten) atop that Viennese Ferris wheel in “The Third Man?” The one about his total lack of concern “if those dots down there stopped moving.”
ORIGINAL POST 3/8/16: Hardened atheists and others along the agnostic spectrum don’t believe in nothing. They must substitute their own new gods, and validating Chesterton’s famous dictum, that could be anything or anyone…like themselves for instance.
For today’s Progressives like Barack, Bernie & Hillary, the Almighty State is God, and they are ITS High Priests. So we must suffer at the hands of those self-appointed deities who promise everything to the empty and helpless. The results are invariably something a bit short of Paradise. Rather, it’s Hiroshima after the blast, tragically not a hyperbolic comparison.
Our New Age saviors are in the business of crushing Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand, the natural order and organization of things that has a creative life of its own, a total affront to Marx’s modern messengers. Borders/boundaries/distinctions/meanings/rules of law are blurred; confusion, fear and chaos reigns. That accomplished, a complete, rigid makeover of the world can occur. None of it would be possible without the cooperation of the masses. Don’t blame Hillary, don’t blame Bernie, don’t blame Barack. Look to those of blind faith aroused by the promises of their latest Master Planners, Those Who Would Be God.
This excellent analysis of the underlying forces for trends in the world made think of an email exchange I had with my brother. I somehow came across Gandhi’s Seven Sins. They are listed below followed by my brother’s comments.
I hope this is of interest.
Here’s his replay:
Boy… Except for #4, Gandhi’s views are contrary to today’s dominant/popular culture – at least in the Western World.
1) Wealth without work.
Today, this does not have to be limited to rich people. Think of all the people getting money from the government or law suits that they don’t have to work for.
2) Pleasure without conscience.
Could anyone argue that we’re not encouraged to do what pleases us as much as possible and not feel guilty about it?
3) Knowledge without character.
The entire concept of character has largely been divorced from learning.
4) Commerce without morality.
It is very popular to talk of immoral drug, insurance, or oil companies. However many – even those that vote left of center – consider commerce as essentially good. It can’t be immoral but doesn’t have to be moral. This seems to be the Wall Street Journal view.
5) Science without humanity.
Again, humanity often divorced from science – think of environmentalism.
6) Worship without sacrifice.
Except for the small O orthodox, now religions preach you don’t have to do what you don’t feel like doing – that of course includes the religion of secular humanism.
7) Politics without principal.
Don’t know that this is any worse than it’s always been.
I should add that the dominant culture is very moralistic. However this is always about changes others should make and does not involve any meaningful personal sacrifice. That’s very different from the traditional Hindu, Christian or Jewish point of view.