COUNTER CLOCKWISE CULTURE

The sounds you can very clearly hear as we swirl in a counter clockwise direction down the gurgler of culture are the screams of 'normal deplorables' clutching their outdated ideas of common sense, logic, manners, and the Judeo-Christian morality which has afforded all of us, including our suicidal 'elites' (a.k.a. lunatics) the luxuries of disagreeing with the status Quo.

Our new 'intellectual betters'(a.k.a. 'delusional') are purposefully pursuing policies designed to bring Western civilisation to its knees in the vain hopes of replacing it with a Utopian, more 'loving culture' such as those we are  able to currently witness in Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea, the current flavour of the month for Western Civ haters:

Later Tammam told us at a fancy Korean BBQ restaurant that coal miners get to eat at discounted rates. According to Article 30 of the DPR Korean constitution, “arduous trades” are entitled to shorter working days.
You get the impression that the so-called ‘elite’ in North Korea are different to the elite of capitalist societies, consisting of school teachers, scientists, architects, doctors and engineers, people whose ingenuity plays a role in providing the brain power for the state’s drive towards economic self-sufficiency. Are these people paid more? Yes, but this inequality pales in comparison to the inequality you see in the capitalist world. [Jay Tharappel]

A segue by Tim Blair on this pay differential: "Great way to run an economy. Let’s see Sydney University academics demonstrate solidarity by accepting wages below those of apprentice bricklayers"

Jay is a Phd student at Sydney Uni under the tutelage of that great dissembler of Western Civilisation and friend to Dictators everywhere Tim Anderson.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/uni-row-over-korea-puff-piece/news-story/4da7b6ccbb63754db514a26c307495bf

Aren't we all looking forward to that 'great leap forward' where our current intellectual betters (a.k.a. loons) are safely ensconced in positions of bureaucratic power where they can legally reduce we peons to the 'proper' position of serfs to our new feudal overlords.

What a rosy future we can see in the tea leaves.

A HYBRID CREATURE

An astute summation of the character of Australia's #1 political incumbent...Chauncey Alinsky:

"Many of us might think that Turnbull stands for nothing but his own self-aggrandisement. That would be a mistake.

He stands, apparently, and very worryingly, alongside a goodly number of his party colleagues, in supporting a belief system that is viscerally loathed by many across the Liberal Party membership and out in voterland. See, Turnbull does not believe in broad churches when it comes to political parties. He does have an agenda. The agenda, in summary, is to retain the things that his Party’s base finds repugnant – like the ABC; debt; multiculturalism; Labor policies on education and social welfare; and the like – and to advance things that the Party’s base decidedly do not want – like the global warming/renewables scam; world government, or at least global oversight of Australia’s political business; more migration from groups that the “deplorables” fear; probably, at least when it is safe, the republic; and so on.
Turnbull’s international friends are those leaders most despised by your average right-of-centre voter – Merkel, Trudeau, Macron, May, John Key, Obama. His chosen Praetorian guard of miserable C-teamers – Bishop, Birmingham, Frydenberg, Pyne, in particular – are not on the Christmas card lists of anyone I know. They are enablers of bumbling, Three Stooges level incompetence and, at the same time, woke, inner-city leftism.
One question about Turnbull is – dangerous or merely hopeless? The same question came up again and again during the Obama presidency. How can one be so inept and, at the same time, so effective in changing our society and our country? The answer is, one can, indeed, be both Chauncey Gardner and Saul Alinsky simultaneously. A bungler with an agenda." [P Collits]

a.k.a. the Malchurian candidate.

A PROPER TRANSITION

An article worth reading. It is authored by a well known conservative writer who transitioned from a left-wing radical (like Orwell and many others) into a conservative when he realised that the Utopian ideas of Marxism do in fact become insidious and dangerous to ordinary people as they are put into action:

When I began the project of describing this movement in the 1980s, the emergence of the left as a mainstream force in America’s political life was fairly recent and inadequately understood.” Its triumph in the 21st century was demonstrated perfectly by soon-to-be president Barack Obama in 2008, is a good example.
She labels him psychologically disturbed, but Horowitz knows well enough not to get involved in the hopeless task of proving his innocence, i.e., his sanity. To judge a dissenter mentally unbalanced is an old Communist procedure. In Volume VIII of the series, The Left in the University, Horowitz notes that academics have thoroughly adopted it in their Cold War historiography, the “consensus” version, in the words of an approving professor whom Horowitz quotes, starting with the premise that “an exaggerated, irrational fear of communism…created an atmosphere of persecution and hysteria.”
It is sometimes difficult to realize how drastic is this sweeping thesis of conservative irrationality, perhaps because of its long legacy, running from The Authoritarian Personality (1950), an influential sociological study led by Theodor Adorno that aligned fascist leanings with rightwing beliefs, to President Obama’s infamous remark about working-class whites: “[T]hey get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or antiimmigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Many liberal columnists and hosts now take conservatism-as-pathology as a starting point, and establishment conservatives haven’t responded effectively. This is another instance in which the Right has failed to understand how the Left operates, Horowitz believes. In the letter cited above, we have a leftist friend offering to fathom a renegade’s error by probing his psyche, an act that could be taken as a mode of sympathy, or at least as a wider awareness of him than his politics alone.
But that would only repeat a foolish mistake by the Right, the one, Horowitz writes, whereby “conservatives imprudently accepted the left’s deceptive claims to be ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive,’ ascribing to it idealistic intentions.” To take the psychological query at face value is to miss how it alters the debate, insidiously so, and not in the way conservatives have come to expect.
For a long time, conservatives have charged leftists with politicizing everything and everyone, but the diagnostic move does the opposite. It de-politicizes the conservative. Whatever political opinions he holds dissipate once we view him as a fragile, deluded ego. Conservatism, then, is no longer a political outlook which must be opposed by democratic means. It’s a psychosocial condition, and that’s not something you debate. Instead, you confine the sufferer.
It doesn’t take much arrogance to sustain that diagnostic approach when a settled community of liberals reinforces it, and condescension is their default mode of handling conservatives. Besides, Horowitz notes, a pleasing selfspoke of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” (Volume VII is entitled The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama). President Obama didn’t look and sound like a ’60s radical—no bad behavior, a bourgeois family life—but he readily politicized the IRS and other agencies, inserted gender identity into regulations never intended for it, and was entirely comfortable with rappers in the White House. There you see the liberal accommodation of the Left, the same beliefs and goals but with a lighter touch.

https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/radical-prophet/

SIN, SOCIALISM AND SACRED COWS

You have got to give it to Kurt Schlichter, he doesn't hold back at all on how he thinks about issues.
Personally I admire that approach irrespective of the views expressed:

Today's millennial socialist dilettantes might consider consulting with some of us who have personal experience with this ideological cancer, but millennials tend to prefer to rely upon their arbitrary feelz rather than on boring old facts, evidence, and history.

What the boring old facts, evidence, and history demonstrate, beyond any rational dispute, is that socialism is a bloodstained abomination with north of 100 million corpses to its accursed credit. The It Girl of the current commie/Democrat daisy chain, wide-eyed half-wit Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, doesn’t let bourgeois concepts like “knowing things” stop her from sharing her sophomore-grade insights all over the left-wing media, which is to say “the media.” Gulag Barbie is a clown, and even the late nite hack hosts stare back at her adolescent babbling, amazed as she tosses an incoherent word salad about her workers’ paradise.
Why, it will be just like Switzerland. Or Sweden. One of those. Like, are they different?

I would much rather face off against someone who believes entirely differently from my worldview and is not ashamed to tell it like it is according to their perspective. That I can deal with.

The ones who really 'get my goat' are those who claim to be one thing and act like another. Two faced hypocrites who hide their true worldview behind an 'acceptable' facade. My gorgeous daughter is fighting just such a scourge at the university she is attending. She might not have the skills as yet to win the arguments, (but she soon will) but she is providing a model of courage for those in her classes who might believe differently to the lecturer but lack the courage to stand up and who as a result might be in danger of having their faith undermined.

A 'Pagan' College masquerading as Christian.
Perhaps in this topsy turvey and severely compromised world it might in fact be better to attend a non-Christian university where pagan worldviews and lies are to be expected and thus guarded against.

Some of the 'academics' who teach at her College have chosen a particular sin-path (a.k.a. the 'broad road'; Matthew 7:13) and now work at 'normalising' that sin to justify their embrace of it, and they do so by undermining the pillars upon which the Christian faith has been established.

In order to do this effectively these cancerous clowns of academia attempt to relativise the lake of truth with buckets of poison. Unfortunately they are well aware that most of their 'victims' are young and unformed either rationally or scripturally so the task is fairly easy given the levels of 'uneducation' dished out in the school system these days.

What really galls is that they freely throw around the logical fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam (science as authority) like a club to establish their dominance, an approach which has garnered unfortunate credulity in our new educational world order of propaganda and rewriting history or what I earlier referred to as the 'uneducation' of the masses.

I suppose the actual Christian thing to do would be to pray for their souls (which I shall do) however I would also point out to them that James 3 is quite a sobering passage for teachers and one which they should be mindful of, even if they claim that the bible is nothing more than a book of myths, because as C S Lewis reveals; myth is the way ancient cultures embodied truth.

BTW In actuality their 'club' is not science at all because true science is predicated on theoretical substance open to refutation:

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. [Albert Einstein]

Instead these 'geniuses'  make claims of scientific 'absolutes' which is not science at all but scientism, i.e. an ideology.

PRE-APOCALYPTIC PAGAN THINKING

Trevor Noah Asks Ocasio-Cortez: 'How Do You Pay for All These Ideas?

She then proceeds to trot out all the tired cliches of Marxist dogma attached to the latest inner-city pagan myth of 'global warming' thrown in for good measure...all ideologies guaranteed to wreck any economy and plunge millions into abject poverty and tragic lives, just as illustrated in so many countries around the world during the last and current, centuries. 

But of course she believes that she could do it better, that "this time it will work!" Just like the madman trying the same thing over and over and hoping each time will be different.

She also believes that if prince Gallant of Kwa-Utopia would just ride in on his white unicorn and sweep her off her feet then she could be the queen of all she surveys.

 

What is it about so many of the young today that their ideals are so obviously founded on propaganda and wishful thinking?

• Poor education, 
• a paucity of logic,
• a lifestyle of ease and plenty which leads to taking things for granted, 
• emotionalism wrapped in virtue signalling, 
• and of course the idealism which is OK in the young provided it doesn't end up influencing the running of a country. 

In my humble opinion citizens shouldn't even be allowed to vote until they have a financial stake in the country and/or children.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2018/07/27/trevor-noah-asks-ocasiocortez-how-do-you-pay-for-all-these-ideas-n2504413?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

DOUBLE-THINK

Post modernism in education has destroyed the logical faculties of millions.
It is currently possible to hold two directly opposing views simultaneously without going mad, such is the 'magic' of PoMo thought...for example; the latest young, Labour 'disciple' of Marxism in Britain, the inestimably stupid (naive?) Ash ("I'm literally a communist") Sarkar who believes in capitalistic communism:

But hey, cheer up. For Ms Sarkar tells The Guardian: “My communism isn’t about authoritarian bureaucracy, suppressing freedom or everyone wearing burlap sacks. It’s about the desire to see the coercive structures of state dismantled, while also having fun.” Wow! You can literally be a communist and destroy your country without expropriating people, starving them to death or having to wear hideous clothes! How does that work, then? Easy. As Ms Sarkar tells her fans: “We’re selling ‘I’m literally a communist’ T-shirts.” All becomes clear. She’s literally a capitalist, you idiot. [Melanie Phillips]

Orwell must be spinning like a turbine in his grave.

THE HISS OF DEFLATION

Brendan O'Neill illustrates how erudite sarcasm neatly deflates the pretensions of the high and mighty panjamdrums populating that rarefied atmosphere of what might loosely be termed 'academia' these days:

"Some of us were lucky enough never to have heard of Ms Sarkar before this TV ding-dong (and the vast majority of Britons still enjoy this privilege, of course). But five minutes of Googling tells me she is a middle-class academic who appropriates black street slang to appear more authentic than she is? Blacked-up university leftism is where we’re at now, guys. How more Britons do not die from cringing, starting with Ms Sarkar’s own students, I will never figure. She also apparently writes for Novara Media, which is a kind of Vice for bourgeois leftists; socialism for Shoreditch Shitheads. And now, of course, she is the woman who said ‘I’m literally a communist, you idiot’ to Piers Morgan’s wobbling face, which is nice: 15 minutes of fame and all that. The clickbait industry wrote it up, tweeted it, and waited for students and unemployed people to provide them with the clicks that help them keep going. And so is the mad cycle of online noise sustained, sadly."