Wednesday 30 December 2015

TO LOVE YOUR CHILDREN IS AN ACT OF AGGRESSION

The mentally deficient worldview of Marxist maniacs should and still largely is, regarded as a laughing matter. However, the fact that many of these retards occupy influential positions in the university hierarchy, left-wing government departments and education departments in general should give pause as to what is coming down the turnpike:
"....ponder the deep ruminations of Marxist philosopher Adam Swift, who insists that reading to your children causes “unfair disadvantage” to the children of parents who are negligent and stupid, and should therefore induce feelings of guilt and discomfort. To our Marxist intellectual, being a competent, caring parent is something to atone for, being as it is an act of class oppression."

Monday 21 December 2015

INEVITABLE OR AVOIDABLE?

Does any of this sound depressingly familiar to those who keep up with political developments, especially in the Western 'democracies':
In George Orwell's dystopian story 1984, the central character Winston Smith is a member of the Outer Party who works in the Ministry of Truth rewriting past news articles. The narrative is set in Airstrip One (once Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania.
Life in Oceania is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent surveillance, thought control, and public manipulation. An elite and privileged Inner Party governs the superstate through merciless persecution of individualism and independent thinking or "thoughtcrime". The leader of the Inner Party is Big Brother, a personified entity with no physical presence. Four omnipresent Ministries are the instruments that control all aspects of life in Oceania:
1. The Ministry of Peace ensures perpetual war and directs atrocity.
2. The Ministry of Plenty manipulates shortage through rationing and deliberate starvation. It subjects the outer party, the general citizenry, and the proletariats (the uneducated working class) to sub-standard living conditions while conversely, the Inner Party enjoys luxurious lifestyles.
3. The Ministry of Love manages torture and brainwashing. It ferments hatred of all 'enemies' of the superstate by publically executing war prisoners. Transgressors of state rules are tortured to extract meaningless answers and ultimately dehumanise.
4. The Ministry of Truth is concerned with producing lies. It oversees propaganda and historical transmutation.

Sunday 20 December 2015

WHAT A TOOL!

Thanks David Thompson for your amusing and educative blog:
I’m reminded of the Guardian’s Emer O’Toole, a “postcolonial theorist” and assistant professor of Irish Performance Studies, for whom all cultures past and present are equally vibrant and noble, except of course the culture in which she currently flourishes, on which opprobrium must be heaped ostentatiously and often.
Ms O’Toole bemoaned the colonial propagation of Shakespeare, whose works she denounced as “full of classism, sexism, racism and defunct social mores.” And worse, “a powerful tool of empire, transported to foreign climes along with the doctrine of European cultural superiority.” The possibility that at any given time one set of values and insights might be preferable to another, even objectively better and markedly so, is apparently something one mustn’t think about.
Her article was accompanied by a photograph of New Zealand’s Ngakau Toa theatre company performing Troilus and Cressida in a distinctively Maori style. To me, it looked fun and worth the price of a ticket. But this cross-cultural fusion offended Ms O’Toole, who dismissed notions of the Bard’s universality as “uncomfortably colonial.” She then presumed to take umbrage on behalf of all past colonial subjects, whose own views on Shakespeare and literature she chose not to relate. She did, however, get quite upset about “our sense of cultural superiority” – a sense of superiority that, she insisted, has long been “disavowed by all but the crazies.”
With that in mind, I can’t help wondering how Ms O’Toole might have felt had she been among the 19th century English colonists who encountered a Maori culture that was all but prehistoric, with no discernible literature or science, and no enlightened gender politics, and in which cannibalism was not unknown. Faced with such things, I’m sure Ms O’Toole would have resisted the wicked urge to think herself a little more culturally advanced.
Of course one Emer O’Toole is easy enough to mock. A classroom full of them is more of a problem. A generation schooled in the same kind of thinking, or rather unthinking, is culturally corrosive.

Saturday 19 December 2015

FAITH & REASON ARE COMPATIBLE

The clearest definition of Christian 'faith' is found in Hebrews chapter 11 and 1 Peter 1 and access to such faith comes through revelation NOT human intelligence.

However, I am constantly faced with the common misconception that faith is actually a form of throwing common sense and reason to the wind and believing in the unbelievable, a sort of 'magical thinking'. Human 'faith' does indeed encompass such blind, unsubstantiated belief; consider for example the 'faith' in evolution, something that masquerades as 'science' yet cannot be proved scientifically, nor can it be witnessed, nor can its theories be disproved because no one can go back in time and the only 'evidences' are 'interpreted' by those wedded to the belief, and worst of all, any contrary interpretations are decried as a heresy, and in most Western educational systems the alternatives are not even allowed to be voiced.

The real tragedy is when Christians confuse our faith with that of the human variety and the result is a form of 'ecumenically approved magical thinking' exemplified by the name & claim it cult, the 'emergent groups' and the more recent anti-church sects.

Think instead of the exhortation in Romans 12:2.
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.
It is indisputable that our protestant tradition is founded on “reason and the scriptures” – whether it’s Martin Luther standing before the Diet of Worms, C.S. Lewis apologetically defending the faith via radio waves, or Jonathon Edwards detailing the philosophical argument for the captivity of the soul – we are a community founded on the ability to reason.

Wednesday 16 December 2015

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

A tragic but accurate portrayal of the madness afoot in the West. The genesis of this article was a story about a 6 foot 2 inch man (Wolscht) in his 50's with 7 children who decided one day that he was in fact, a 6 year old female; abandoning his wife, family and job to become dependant on a twisted society:
Carl R. Trueman asks some hard questions here:
If everything else which shapes our identity can now be determined by mere personal preference, why single out age as an exception?… So when it comes to transgender people mewling and puking about how Wolscht is trivializing their cause, let me put this as simply and gently as I can: When you decide that categories of identity are merely psychological and that reality is constituted by language, you consequently have neither the right nor the ability to call a halt to the Promethean process which you have unleashed just because some of the results prove to be distasteful to you and unhelpful to your political cause. Indeed, whining like a bunch of, ahem, six year old girls is not going to help you at this point.
You do not believe me? Then perhaps it is time to call the spirit of Nietzsche’s Madman once more from the grave: You who have so derided any notion of human nature and external authority, do you now have the courage to face the world for whose birth you yourselves were the midwives? You who have “unchained the sun from this earth,” can you now live with the consequences of your own actions – where all things, even chronological age, must surely give way before the will to power? Face the reality you have made, where Mr. Wolscht is the Nietzschean Übermensch – or, to be precise, the Überkleinesmädchen—of the new order.
No doubt opponents will say that such a view will create chaos. Law courts must recognize an age of consent and an age of criminal responsibility; Schools need an objective standard of age to structure their curricula; And it is in everyone’s best interest that one-year-olds are not allowed to drive on the highways or drink Scotch or play in their cribs with loaded AK-47s. Well, yes, of course – but, please, do not shoot the messenger. I have not created the politics of repudiation which drives so much of the Left today. I am merely pointing out that its logic is inexorable. Those who accept its premises and yet seek to curb its power according to their own tastes are merely so many desperate postmodern Canutes, shouting impotently at the relentless waves of ecstatic nihilism that are even now crashing against the shore.

He concludes:
Still, it is the season of goodwill and I would hate to end this article in such a negative fashion. So let me make a small, positive, and I hope helpful, contribution to the political vocabulary of the New Left. In this age when every micro-identity and pseudo-victim needs some bit of rebarbative sociological gibberish to give credibility to their angry resentments, I offer a new piece of incantatory mumbo jumbo to help us all identify and demonize yet one more species of unacceptable bigotry: Heterotemporal heliocentrarchic transagephobia. This is the irrational, reactionary belief that time is significant, that age is a given, and that those who deny this are idiots, liars, or in urgent need of psychiatric help.
When, twenty years from now (forgive the heliocentrarchic heterotemporalism of that phrase), the U.S. Supreme Court magically finds the right to transageism in the Constitution, then remember, folks, you heard it here first. You’re welcome.




Monday 14 December 2015

A DANGEROUS NAIVETE

Are the worlds 'leaders' (politicians) deliberately spitting in the tax-payer/ordinary person's face or what? I suspect that they are laughing at their cocaine fuelled orgy's about how they have scammed the taxpayers.
Guess who opened the Parisian fiasco of climate change? 
Robert Mugabe that's who.
If that doesn't shriek volumes about the nature of the scam then I don't know what does: "“Unless current trends are reversed, disaster stalks planet Earth,” [Robert Mugabe]
Disaster stalks Zimbabwe thats for sure, and is about to begin his stalk of the West in general through the auspices of the 'leaders of the free world'. 
The whole thing is a joke, the science, the scams, the largest 'redistribution of wealth' since Stalin, the whole kit & Kaboodle, and yet there are still intelligent(?) ordinary, people who read this and believe in the Climate faith...go figure!

Thursday 10 December 2015

A TOTAL WHAMMY

The left-wing have captured the educational high ground; primary, secondary and tertiary and are programming the new generations to believe that the Western civilisation has been nothing more than an invading, slave-owning, dominating, misogynistic, capitalistic band of Imperialists....in other words they have stolen our true history and the glories of Western civilisation. 

They are stealing our present by the enforced capture of education, the media and the arts, by enlarging the Welfare State, increasing taxes, overloading the economy with grander and grander spending, and not for capitol projects but giving the funds into the hands of tiny, activist led pressure groups.

And they are also attempting to steal the future by promoting scares like the farcical Global warming scam and diverting money away form genuine world building, environment saving, poverty diminishing projects towards the productive nations.

Wednesday 9 December 2015

STATISM BAD


The brilliant Roger Scruton nails a definition of conservatism:
Conservatives believe that our identities and values are formed through our relations with other people, and not through our relation with the state. The state is not an end but a means. Civil society is the end, and the state is the means to protect it. The social world emerges through free association, rooted in friendship and community life. And the customs and institutions that we cherish have grown from below, by the ‘invisible hand’ of co-operation. They have rarely been imposed from above by the work of politics, the role of which, for a conservative, is to reconcile our many aims, and not to dictate or control them.