BOVINE FAECES AND THE ART OF CONCEALMENT

The real tragedy surrounding the 'chicken littles' of the chatterati is how many people actually believe the rubbish that emanates from the poison pens of the Western lame-stream-media. Such a flood of leftist propaganda illustrates how deconstruction and its illegitimate brood have impacted on critical thinking in Western society:

"Alas, the nutrition nazis seem to lack the legs of the warmist crowd, which has made a prolonged art of extracting cash from the improbable, contradictory and absurd. A climate scientist leads a shipload of weather worrywarts to Antarctica to observe ice he says has melted, gets caught fast in that which is no longer supposed to exist and has to be rescued at enormous cost and inconvenience. Do the dire prognostications cease? Does embarrassment silence those who have proven themselves so spectacularly and repeatedly wrong? Not at all. Here we are, more than 18 months after the Ship of Fools wedged itself in an icefloe, and yet the alarmist absurdities continue to pour forth. The latest: that killing sharks  somehow boosts global temperatures."[Roger Franklin]

How did I arrive at my title? Read Neil Postman's 1969 essay:Bullshit and the Art of Crap-Detection. 

MEDIA THE DRUG

The 'game' of politics is the scab on top of an 'open wound' which is; contemporary Western civilisation. That 'open wound' is nowadays crawling with septicemia, gangrene, and cellulitis and is well on its way towards that mysterious bright light at the end of the tunnel.

Most of the media these days operates like that renowned rat-poison 'Warfarin', a drug that weakens the bloods ability to clot, thus rendering the scab notably less effective and prone to breaking down at the most inopportune times. Unfortunately the longer the wound takes to heal the more infected the body becomes until eventually limbs are amputated and ultimately the heart stops beating.

Thus the true villain is the media?...well we all know that's not true. There are a few good people in the media. The media is merely another 'brick in the wall' (popular cliches abound) towards the fomented collapse of Western civilisation when Marxists, anarchists and utopians will rejoice...that is for the short time before totalitarianism raises its head to take control of the chaos.

As Francis Schaeffer said many years ago, the Arts (which includes the media, the 'fine' arts, movies, TV radio etc) are indicative of the path that society in general is doomed to take.

Encouraged anyone?

I am but only because I have read the end of the story.

EVOLUTIONARY HYPOCRISY

A deep sigh!!!!!...for the hypocrisy (stupidity?) of the emotive age...further reflections on Cecil the dead lion:

"....if humanity owes its existence, along with the lions, to millions of years’ worth of brutal bloodshed in the struggle to survive and pass on our genes, any antipathy against animal cruelty seems a little naïve and counterproductive. After all, if natural selection got us here in the first place, one more dead lion is hardly a tragedy. According to evolutionary opinion, lions appeared on the scene about 700,000 years ago. This means that at least 10 billion lions would have died before Cecil did. And I would hazard a guess that most lions, like Cecil, have not died peacefully in the wild. If the evolutionary story is true, we actually have very little basis to care.

In fact, looking at this from the perspective of all the other animals which have been killed and would be killed by Cecil, it’s hard to see why we should lament rather than rejoice that Cecil finally got his just desserts. What grounds does evolution give us to choose between being a lion-lover instead of an antelope-lover? And why is it commendable to film, for entertainment, animals torturing and killing each other, but wicked and cruel for human “animals” to do the same? A male lion can kill all the lion cubs of another pride, and no petitions are put out for justice to be served, yet when a human kills a lion, culpable of mass animalicide, in the late stages of its retirement, the international community cries ‘foul’.

If nature is intrinsically “red in tooth and claw”, what grounds do we have to protest any bloodshed or cruelty in the world? Within the evolutionary model, death and cruelty are not only necessary for natural selection, but according to Charles Darwin himself, these evils should be seen as “most beautiful and most wonderful”. Thus Charles Darwin wrote in Origin of Species:

Evolution fails to explain why caring for animals is morally superior to torturing them.
“It may be difficult, but we ought to admire the savage instinctive hatred of the queen-bee, which urges her instantly to destroy the young queens, her daughters as soon as born, or to perish herself in the combat… maternal love or maternal hatred… is all the same to the inexorable principle of natural selection.” [Martin Duboisée de Ricquebourg]

THE TROJAN OUROBOROS!

I agree with Merv Bendle. The new 'progressive' initiatives which have seduced the majority of Australians are very dangerous to the future of Australians in general and yet many otherwise intelligent people appear blinkered to the risk...why?:

All of these areas of public policy share one crucial characteristic – they involve the mobilization of state power to impose vast new structures of tightly regulated behaviour upon society that would not otherwise have evolved of their own accord. They also necessitate massive bureaucracies based on the Promethean assumption that the almost infinite intricacies of social, economic, and ecological life can be grasped, modelled, manipulated, and directed by the apparatus of the state (in which, of course, much of Turnbull’s progressivist constituency would be employed).

And let there be no doubt about it, this is the progressivist agenda: systematically to erode the power and autonomy of the individual, the family, the community and civil society, and to replace them with the Leviathan State, with its great tangled mass of bureaucratic tentacles reaching down to surveil, regulate and ultimately strangle the most intimate of personal and social relationships, covering every area of life.

I believe that the promotion of these invasive new dictates has succeeded because they have been couched in the emotive packaging so beloved of societal 'guru's' such as Oprah and the myriad of women's 'table talk' forums that have erupted on daytime television, and are of course echoed by their morning and late-night male counterparts who have been equally seduced or cannot dare be seen to be 'patriarchal' in any sense of the word. Thereafter these emotionally laden catch-phrases and literary Trojan horses are widely picked up and disseminated throughout the main-stream-media who add their peculiar prejudices into the mix, prejudices that are to a massive extent left of the left.

'marriage EQUALITY',  a myriad of RIGHTS with little to no responsibilites, PRO CHOICE, REFUGEES rather than illegal immigrants etc.

Political Correctness, which is one of the foundational 'attack dogs' of the new 'progressive' worldview, has set the scene for these freshly minted, manipulative initiatives currently in vogue amongst the chatterati/twitterati. That plus the reality that there has been an almost total domination of the university/higher education sector by neo-Marxist post-modernists who have deconstructed the search for truth and meaning into a quixotic quest and redefined truth down to an 'expert opinion.' 

Thus we find ourselves awash in 'experts' all of whom bear the mark of the university stamp of approval...Ouroboros anyone?

HAT TIP; ROOKMAAKER

Modern Media and the death of a culture:

"And pride ourselves we now do. Nothing has shaken me more (and, be it remembered, I was professionally involved in talking to burglars, muggers, blackmailers, kidnappers, rapists, and murderers) than the utter indifference or even hostility to the achievements of the past and the need to preserve and pay them honor of many educated young people in Britain and France. Nor is this indifference or hostility spontaneous; rather, it has been programmed into them by indoctrination that the past is nothing but the slave trade and the oppression of women. Moreover, their visual education has been crude, as a visit to any modern toy shop or modern municipal playground will confirm. Aesthetically illiterate and ideologically convinced that the past was nothing but a moral mistake that they will correct, it is little wonder they do not care for the fabric of the past or worry much about its disappearance." [Theodore Dalrymple]

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES

The stupidity of today's 'elite':

"I noticed that Richard Dawkins, the biologist–turned–Savonarola of atheism, tweeted that the destruction of Palmyra demonstrated the power of religion: the doleful power, of course. It seemed to have escaped his notice that temples are generally built in the first place from a religious impulse, and that Palmyra had survived for two millennia in a region to which religion was by no means entirely unknown." [Theodore Dalrymple]

RE-DEFINED

The new, re-defined 'trickle down' theory....Tony Abbott's finger has been removed from the left-wing dyke.
First a trickle, then a flood.

FATHER CHRISTMAS FOR PRESIDENT

David Goodheart writes contemptuously about what he considers an erroneous view of the British voting populace by the political masters of British Labour:

The Labour Party is a self-consciously progressive party dominated by highly educated people who believe that they see the world more clearly and understand people’s interests better than those people themselves do, which is the default instinct of both the highly educated and the left-of-centre.

Australian political elites in Labor and the Greens (and in smaller proportion amongst the Liberals, though today’s vote will ascertain to what extent that view is aspirant) provides an almost identical ideological perspective towards the ‘average’ citizen.

However, given that the Labour/labor governments of both countries have, over time, put into place certain laws, systems, policies and educational ‘initiatives’ that facilitate the aforementioned ideology as a type of self-fulfilling prophecy, it is conceivable that such a worldview could soon (if not already) become the prevailing zeitgeist.

The ubiquitous infantilising of the citizenry is remorseless and constant, and given that the ‘long march’ has captured most institutions of education and ‘cultural arbiters’ such as the arts, media, and entertainment industry’s; it goes without saying that the channels through which most information is fed to the populace are compromised towards a Marxist rather than a conservative view of the world and therefore add impetus to the push towards Statism.

Socialist ideology positioning the State as provider, care-giver, organiser and benevolent overseer from birth to death has been massaged into vast segments of the population, engendering a worldview that surrenders personal autonomy into the hands of political overlords.  For example; within our post-modern communities are large tracts of people who cannot even conceive of the necessity to find gainful employment, because ‘who wants to work when it is not absolutely necessary’ and when they are discovered to be holding down a paying job and ‘double dipping’ from welfare, choose to give up the job rather than the welfare. The old idea of work as being a responsibility has been superseded by the idea of a right to having those things traditionally earned by working now being provided by the State. The view of work having moral as well as material value has been replaced by work as an unnecessary evil. 

The left have also succeeded in portraying free enterprise producers (and ultimately job providers) in society as evil and grasping and have successfully inculcated a false ‘class war’ theme into Australian society. Classic divide and rule techniques promulgated by Marxist anarchists such as Gramsci and Alinsky for decades. The ongoing results? More un/under-employed thus more dissatisfaction, and because the media is biased towards Marxist thinking the blame is placed at the feet of private enterprise thus exacerbating the situation until an inevitable downward spiral of blame and causality produces economic and social chaos.  

Unfortunately socialist governments as well as the ideology in all its disguises have been shown to fail all around the world with the inevitable consequences of social, economic and structural destruction, violence and anarchy resulting in civilizational collapse which in turn ushers in a dictator or ‘strong-man’(woman?) to a position of power because in the face of desperate lawlessness, they appear the only hope for peace. Hence we witness throughout history people such as, to name but a few:  Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Franco, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Amin, Mugabe, ad nauseum….

Who will be the natural heir to the coming chaos of the 21^st Century I wonder?

CRY BABIES ALL.....

The new WMD...........emotionalism as a weapon of mass distraction.

The chatterati have programmed Western populations for decades to live existentially, that is; to 'live in the moment', to do what 'feels right', to 'go with your heart' in other words to place emotion on the throne of your life, to deny reason and words as devices of 'patriarchal imperialism'.

Thus Spake Zarathustra...or rather Derrida, Foucault and Lyotard.

Now we are about to reap the whirlwind.

People respond only to emotion and if you bring reason to bear on a problem you are immediately labelled a: racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, hater, misogynist, etc etc. Discussion is shut down and you spend the rest of your time defending what you are not. The problem with that is that when discussion breaks down all that is left is violence and the 'gate-keepers of the West have been de programmed to countenance violence (save a few specialist warriors): thus we shall be  overrun.

The burr meme...

On that persistent meme so beloved of  global warming grant recipients:

Suzuki really unleashes his full fantasy ad hom. Fossil fuels are funding practically every player in the US, UK and Canada: Heartland, GWPF, ICSC. Even the unfunded, volunteer run, Watts Up is an “industry funded website”  – I bet Anthony Watts can’t wait for those cheques to start arriving. (Neither can I). For the record, Climate Depot gets 80% of it’s support from citizens. It has thousands of supporters.

Deniers are all over the map; climate realists all over the world, David Suzuki, National Observer

“Part of the problem is that fossil fuel interests spend enormous amounts of money to sow doubt and confusion, often by funding or setting up organizations like the Heartland Institute in the U.S., the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the U.K., Ethical Oil and Friends of Science in Canada and the International Climate Science Coalition, based in this country but affiliated with similar organizations in Australia and New Zealand and with close ties to Heartland. A number of industry-funded websites also promote fossil fuels at the expense of human life, including Climate Depot and Watts Up With That?”

This line of attack is so old, it’s like Suzuki got trapped in 2007, but the world moved on. When Suzuki finds out that Royal Dutch Shell has been lobbying against coal, funding “progressive” think tanks, and promoting carbon capture, he’s in for a headache. When he finds out Exxon paid four times more to the Stanford Global Climate and Energy project, than they every gave to “deniers” he’ll have to become a skeptic. [Jo Nova 4.9.15]

A double negative truth!

John Carroll writes rather eloquently about cultural tensions that exist in today's society. This extract concerns the man I consider to be one of the more perspicacious 'prophets' of our new emerging zeitgeist: 

Nietzsche argued that the clerisy—which includes the clergy and the intelligentsia—is of its nature impotent, compared with people who live active lives, who direct and make things, who are decisive, and who enjoy themselves. The clerisy, in its tortured inwardness, becomes rancorous—and above all moralistic. Out of disgust at itself, and irritation with its life, it launches into bad-tempered projections.

Whilst Nietzsche oversimplified—given that we humans are often composed of diverse personae blended into one complex form—strains of his central theme may be noted today. The clergy in mainstream churches hardly ever talk of faith, redemption, or God. They seem embarrassed by their core mission, which is to provide convincing answers to the big meaning questions of why we are here and what happens when we die. They rather don the ethical robes of empathy for the disadvantaged and rail against government callousness—appearing more like politicised social workers than apostles of the faith. Churches have traditionally acted as defenders of the moral order—notably in relation to the family. And they have taken on a significant social role: much of their admirable work remains in running nursing homes, shelters, centres for drug addicts, and providing meals for the homeless. My concern is when the moral and social agenda becomes politicised, and becomes a substitute for the quest for meaningful interpretations of the human story. It begins to stray into that search for a redemptive politics—for salvation through politics—which cursed the twentieth century. Religion and politics do not belong together—as Jesus himself taught.

What is NOT being said however, is that people who hold a religious worldview should not be in politics, in fact I would posit that the opposite is true.

PEAS & PODS

What do Labor and Climate warmists have in common (other than enriching themselves at our expense)? A belief system so far removed from honesty and truth that they can twist it any which way they choose!

Early in the contest fr Canning the Labor rusted-ons were crowing over their coming victory which would seal Tony Abbott's fate as Prime Minister. They went so far as to employ lying media hacks and treasonous snakes to try and poison Andrew Hastie's record as an elite SAS soldier and proven leader of men. They failed in the face of the man's courage, humility and forthrightness. Good on him!

What do the laborites say now?

They are not contesting the seat because they want Tony Abbott to stay as leader because they are sure he can be beaten in a general election.

How on earth are they going to handle the thrashing he is going to hand them?

POSTSCRIPT
Well Labor now have the Liberal party hacks themselves to thank...who needs Labor when you have labor-lite in the Liberal party?
I am not sure Andrew should join such a bunch of 'girly-men' to quote a fellow politician.

Education today

Is there anything more absurd than a handful of academics retailing their revolutionary left-wing fantasies in the Grand Ballroom of a luxury hotel? These are among the obvious reasons why the public no longer takes humanities education seriously.  If students actually had to pay their own hard-earned money for this education the drain would be cataclysmic.

Biology as social construct...