Thursday, June 05, 2008
Random Observations
There is a part of leftist thinking that seems to require that the world be a bad place; that people be evil, "greedy," "selfish," and "unjust." One can think one's self quite noble when most of the world is terrible and one can see the need for their own acquisition of power if they truly believe that they have within themselves the unique goodness to "make a better world." If the world is not so bad, and perhaps getting better, it becomes all too necessary for leftists to invent (in their own minds) a bad world to avoid the cognitive dissonance that arises in a bitter control freak unable to confront the demons found in a simple mirror.
The secret (this should be obvious) to genuine revolution is in eliminating employment for bureaucrats and politicians, not simply replacing them or increasing their numbers.
A reality of contemporary media -driven politics is that someone who is left of center by any objective appraisal is now often refered to as "Moderate".
It is then no wonder that an obvious (virtually self-proclaimed) communist like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is so often refered to as simply left of center.
The Jacobins in establishment media have altered objective semantics that much.
A comment by "boffotmc" at the Libertas web site:
"The Soviet Union used to show the 1940 John Ford "Grapes of Wrath" movie to demonstrate how miserable life is under capitalism. But this backfired, as audiences watched the scene where the poor okies pile into a beat up jalopy in their futile quest for a better life in California The audience's reaction was, "Holycrap! Poor people in America have cars!"
People who "don't care" leave other people alone.
Mature revelation occurs when one realizes that the thing they are is the thing they've always been.
A parasite is an oppressor working from the ground up.
"History is written by the victors"...bullshit. History is written by the people who write history, some who often side with the defeated (regardless of how horrible the defeated institution was).
If Hillary had won her party's nomination and lost in the general election, her loss will be attributed to "sexism."
Now that B. Hussein Obama has won his party's nomination, if he loses the general election, his loss will be attributed to "racism."
...Why is it that Democrats are only permitted this kind of phony nonsense during elections and appointments (A conservative who is black or a woman can only be seen as being rejected because they "harbor the wrong views"). The real irony is that Obama is about as Black in his attitudes and lifestyle as John Kerry, and Hillary is about as much an example of a woman as J. Edgar Hoover.
