Signs of Shallow Times

We’ve been living in an easy time. Subsistence and creature comforts come to most with little effort. Whatever trials we experience are often fabricated of our own foolish choices.

Skepticism is easy and easy times breed skepticism. Thus the current whines and gripes directed at all things traditional, all seen through a muddy lense of relativism. Relativism and skepticism are cut of the same cloth.

In another social universe is skepticism’s opposite. The discovery and defense of truth is not easy and is not the product of easy times. So it is that times of struggle test the human spirit’s capacity for depth, refinement, and insight.

Skepticism is a child, spoiled and incapable of sound and honest judgement. Truth is an old soul, having seen the many lies tossed before us and able to judge them for the superficial nature they bare.

The superficial is skeptical, the timeless is true, and the course of existence is born of making the proper distinction between the two.

Political Correctness -- and Decency -- for Thee...but Not for Me

Will Robert De Niro be doing a video now calling Harvey Weinstien a "pig," and a "dog" and threatening to "punch [him] in the face"?

...Probably not. After all, Weinstien never threatened to reduce taxes, secure the country's borders, or, (gasp!) consider America's citizens' interests first.

The propaganda arm of leftism in America is sooo full of shit.

You'd Be Crazy to Not Agree with Me

In many comment threads of late I've often come across the cliche' accusation that my opposing view is somehow an indicator that I'm either stupid or crazy in one way or another. When it isn't me or people who hold my position on a given topic, the current president is often the target of people who feel fully qualified to judge another's mental status based on where their opinions are on the political spectrum.

It's become fairly frequent for media venues to interview psychologists who can note with confidence that Donald Trump is a raving lunatic who must be removed from office to save the world from war, plague, aberrant weather, and four demons in the sky on horseback.

The "conservatives are crazy" meme is the same nonsense every college student gets in an introductory course in psychology. Students at some point are introduced to the concept of the "authoritarian personality" and the "F" scale" ("F" for "fascist" -get it?). College professors don't tell their gullible students that the partisan clown who introduced this bogus concept was Theodor Adorno, a cultural Marxist who found anyone to the right of himself as pathological -- hardly a new strategy among the leftist caste.

In the former Soviet Union, publicly questioning the wisdom of a collectivist police state could land one in a psychiatric facility. Anyone who obviously doesn't see that a sound mind loves Big Brother is obviously in need of "help."

The left didn't get -- and still doesn't get -- "what happened" in the last election. The decision of half the voting public was a giant pushback against bureau-bullies and genuine pathological authoritarian ideologues who, if they had their way, would create a society that micro-manages every aspect of one's life. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, et al had a better idea, and Trump was taking their side.

Every president has had their own specific idiosyncrasies that could be picked apart by the idiots in the psych profession who haven't figured out yet that none of us are completely sane, stable, or without flaw.

Yet, they can still throw words out like "narcissism" after eight years of equating the concept with "cool."

I believe the leftist industrial complex's emotional tirades against the thought of rolling back the punitive mega-state has become an "obsession."

...Is that pathological?

The Side of the Bogus Impartial

..."I don't take a side, but here's a list of why the side that favors America, limited government, and freedom are wrong."

The Moniker, "Rocket man" vs. Thermonuclear Weapons

To watch much of mainstream media, the Democrats, and the leftist industrial complex, it would appear that the greatest threat to world peace are now the words used by an American president...and, NOT the decades long threats to destroy cities in at least three countries by a ruthless communist dictator. The left misses Obama, Castro, and Hugo Chavez that much.

Beauty and the Beastly

I'm occasionally reminded that my alliance with conservatism is not without having deliberated carefully upon things that truly matter.

This documentary on Youtube is a superb testament to the value of...value.

One cannot begin to compare the things of our era that are shallow, frivoulous, and contrived with creations profound and beautiful and of genuine substance.

Roger Scruton narrates a prosaic appraisal of beauty and the human condition and how the high priests of destruction have sought to lay waste to all that truly matters.

An insightful, thought provoking, and intelligent appraisal of existence on the edge of the sacred and profane.

"Taking a Knee"...in the hopes that the rest of us will "bend over"

Professional sports figures, Hollywood, Academia, government bureaucrats, grievance organizers, even elected officials...Has anyone noticed that those who are now most disrespectful and disdainful toward the American republic are the people who have benefited the most from it? The silent majority is becoming evermore sick of the wealthy and famous lecturing the rest of us on how bad we all are for not bending over for their cause of the day. The backlash on all this nonsense is going to be sweet.

Contrasts in Charecter

I've recently allowed myself to be ensnared by one of those Youtube comments back-and-forths. 'Very annoying and ultimately a waste of time to all parties.

The topic -- one that I admit annoys the hell out of me -- was South Korean's views on who is "scarier," Kim Jong Un or...Donald Trump. I kid you not(!).

Of course, as contemporary education and media would have it, most saw Donald Trump as a greater threat. This is beyond pathetic. I know the arguments that can be made regarding the proper course of action regarding North Korea but have people become completely insane!? What does the North Korean police state have to do for some clueless fools to realize that the contrast between a totalitarian dictatorship and a dynamic free society are beyond dramatic?

What's there to consider? A Stalinist police state has imprisoned most its citizens in a cult of bare subsistence. It has successfully developed nuclear weapons and intercontinental delivery systems. It almost daily threatens someone (the U.S., South Korea, Japan, Australia) with "merciless" violence, and the civilized free world is supposed to talk some more, or worse yet, acknowledge our short-comings?

It's more than terrible but, we have almost reached the point of having to choose between the death of tens of thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of people or wait longer to experience the death of millions.

In comment threads on Youtube, any attempt to point out the obvious is met with the usual Jacobin scorn (the bizarre and cliche' accusations of "White Nationalism"). Like so many other issue under the Sun, I've even argued with friends who's need to demonstrate their wise credentials in post modern relativism seems to override common sense. Noting the horrors of impending war by an aggressive and brutal dictatorship is met with the usual tirades about our own misdeeds. "Sure Kim Jong Un is a dictator but...'we' owned slaves." How can anyone ever expect to preserve vibrant free societies when so many of our fellow citizens are so invested in defending the most horrid of governments and so committed to renouncing own own dynamic civilizations? You'd think some of these clowns were still jockeying for a good grade from their leftist college professor.

The Contrast

To further confirm my sense of apprehension over where this is all going, I saw the Christopher Nolan Movie, "Dunkirk." Like "Hacksaw Ridge," it was another great contemporary anti-war film. I'm not going to go into a review other than to say it was a very visceral depiction of the horrors of fellow humans thrust into nightmarish circumstances. It would be difficult for anyone to watch it and be willing to see war happen anywhere.

Where the contrast struck me was comparing the weak-willed pampered and clueless apologists for a ruthless dictatorship in North Korea with the honor and fiber of so many who endured a conflict in a another time. The "Greatest Generation" was made of something considerably more dignified and noble than the pathetic armchair philosophers of our own time.

Do we really expect the likes of North Korea, Iran, and international Islamic terror to offer peace to innocent citizens of the world? And, when they act as perceptive people know they will, can we rely on the limp cause of relativism to save us from destruction?

One can only wish that the fools who daily deride free society and defend the worst would be the only ones to suffer from the inevitable results of their stupidity. But no, they'll drag us into hell along with them.

Too bad...

"Peaceful Protests" in the Post-Obama Insurgency

I made a not so far-fetched observation in a prior post where I suggested that Antifa and other related street rabble were basically a nascent communist insurgency. This recent FOX interview more or less offers a similar conclusion but with first-hand appraisal. 'Some interesting insights from a journalist who apparently isn't in the tank for "the revolution."