PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

I recently read a newspaper article that repeated the now oft cried concern that nations must “respect international law.”
The generic reference to “nations” of course meant The United States, or -- I suppose -- anyone else that dares lack obedience to international anything. International law is not some magical hyper-just tangible institution. In essence , much of what is called international law is no more than the usual demands of intellectuals and bureaucrats to further plan society and increase their influence over sovereign nations while perusing the standard socialist obsessions -- "equality [of result]" and punishment of success and individualism.

There have always been agreements between clans, tribes, and countries to facilitate their self interests and arrive at mutually beneficial circumstance but, today’s media obsession with “international law,” like its newfound excitement over “multilateralism,” has become just another euphemism for centralized (socialist) political authority. Opposing views which support individualism and autonomy are simply written off as invalid, as are many ideals that could be called “conservative.”

Everyone knows that Bush and Blair et al. “defied international law” by enforcing several U.N. resolutions against one Iraqi fascist dictator and the self-interested sympathies of France, Germany, China, and Russia.

The standards of internationalism, several NGO’s, and socialist governments are worthy of serious skepticism by anyone who truly values individuality and freedom. Mega-bureaucracy and socialist “planners” of course have a “better world” in mind for all of us “uncooperative” types (perhaps we could work in the rice fields and “learn to share”?).

Laws in general are a necessary evil and more than a few are required to maintain stability between nations. The encroaching concept of international law today, however, has little to do with clerical decorum or smooth functioning in mundane matters, and more to do with the same old goals collectivists have always sought to impose upon humanity – obedience to centralized authority and the left wing world view… “for a better world.”

Some laws are made to be broken; most to be merely laughed at…or scorned.


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A brief excerpt from a “glossary” of Ed-World terminology (from an essay on my experiences in Ed-land U.S.A., to be posted over the holidays while I’m away from my computer and weekly postings):

- "Addressing individual learning styles"

This is Ed-land’s phony implication that a teacher can somehow provide individualized instruction to a class of several kids. By acknowledging the obvious, that some kids are more visceral vs. analytical, or creative, Ed-land claims they can somehow “meet the needs” of such psychological variety. They seem to miss the obvious point that, if a teacher is “meeting the needs” of a particular “style” they will automatically be not addressing the other “styles.” While individual instruction (i.e. home schooling – which Ed-world hates) could perform this ideal concern for “unique learning styles,” it’s absurd to even imagine that a teacher can effectively pull such a stunt off in a classroom of 15 or more kids. Add to this the phony charade that, at other times, Ed-world will tell you that “all kids are equally creative” etc.

We used to address “different learning styles” quite effectively – by simply teaching distinctly different subjects! In gym class the system addressed the visceral "learning style." In English, a student would…learn English (e.g. learn to read and write English!). It may also be argued that, if a student is indeed a "visual learner" (likes to watch TV) it is all the more reason for them to compensate for their less acute skills in writing, reading, or thinking rather than indulge the “style” they’re supposedly good at already.


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A Comic Commentary from Promethean Visions:


Insight and Delusion

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Promethean Quotes from The Promethean Observer:

"There were clearly too many cars driving around 50,000 years ago. Environmental justice can now be served by rolling back global warming temperatures to the “natural” levels of the last great ice age. To fully “return to natures plan” we can even clone a few wooly mammoths and send Native Americans back to Asia (across the frozen land bridge they were thought to have migrated to the Americas across before the last great period of "global warming."). The fact that Ohio will be covered in a massive sheet of ice will have to be overlooked for the sake of a higher (and paradoxically unnatural) need -- unchanging nature."