They Come To Teach Us (2)
Further to this, here’s a short but telling scene from an “anti-racist” rally in Vancouver, where young people are swollen with righteousness, and where even the most jarring irony escapes detection. Think of it as another illustration of what it’s like to be severely educated:
You don’t have a fucking culture! We’re fucking white. We don’t have a goddamn fucking culture!
Longer video here. You may want to bite down on something.
You don’t have a fucking culture! … We’re fucking white! We don’t have a goddam fucking culture!”
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St Augustine, Thomas Aquinas . . .
Clive James.
Full stop.
Cultural Amnesia
Oh, and circling back around, he did also descend into doing a bit of poetry translation, but the wandering does rise to being a bit more beatific after a few pages . . .
Kant, Hegel, Marx
Add Gramsci and Marcuse and you have the explanation as to why there are so many people going around professing that we “don’t have a culture”.
Guys (and ladies), I’m shilling for two books I’ve written–‘Touch Wood’ and ‘Touch Down’–that would leave these comic dits sputtering in fury and indignation. They’re obscene, vulgar, violent, funny, ridiculous, plotless, and implausible. The hero is called Mitch Milligan, and he sports a mean streak along with a 15′ dick. I tried to write a book that would eventually be banned. If you’ve got some extra shekels and feel like reading simple prose fiction that would infuriate a leftist, give it a shot. If it ever is banned (I keep sending ocpies to various HRCs),it’ll become a prized collector’s item.
That’s it for the self-promotion. Hail victory!
Brock Barrack (sobriquet)
From the subsequent Twitter thread:
From the subsequent Twitter thread
*Triggering intensifies*
*Triggering intensifies*
It seems to me this is close to the nub of it.
The fact that being “woke” so often entails double standards, contradictions, factual and logical errors, along with rationalised spite and outright dishonesty, may explain the vehemence of the Mao-lings’ assertions, and the hostility towards anything or anyone who, however politely, reveals those contradictions. Such things will presumably be felt as a threat to a Mao-ling’s ego, and to any theatre of righteousness. Few people enjoy being exposed as a fraud. And the greater the pretence, the more that’s staked on it – the more the pretence is a person’s status and identity – the more likely it is that any challenge to it, however factual or civil, will be met with irrational rage.
Bad faith tends to result in prickliness.
In other news, we must flee. The poets are coming.
And somewhat related to the topic of this thread.
Being woke is evidently a competitive business.
Related. https://mobile.twitter.com/MunroeBergdorf/status/904029223601496064 It must be so hard being that woke all the time.
It must be so hard being that woke all the time.
The dogmatic, regurgitated word salad is quite a thing. As a reflection of this person’s mind and its processes, it doesn’t bode well. And when I heard the line, “how people are conditioned to believe certain things,” I felt a wave of irony wash over me.
“I fucking hate white people and can’t wait for y’all to die out.
She might actually believe this will happen in her lifetime, thanks to the sorry state of modern academia.
And it’s tragic, really, to be so perpetually angry. But this is how the enemy trains its young.
But this is how the enemy trains its young.
The only real difference between these “woke” humanities students and Middle Eastern Moslem yoots is that the humanities students aren’t blowing themselves up.
And when I heard the line, “how people are conditioned to believe certain things,” I felt a wave of irony wash over me.
The same wave of irony was felt as “microagressions” that the “woke” blamed on whiteys who happened to be nearby.
The poets are coming.
Oh.
‘k, fine.
Roses like lips
Violets like sky
Your poem sucks
Piss off and die.
Oh, and a couple of classics . . .
The Sky
The sky is blue,
the grass is green,
get off your butt
and join the Marines.
Elegy for Sir Francis Hinsley
They told me, Francis Hinsley,
they told me you were hung
With red protruding eye-balls
and black protruding tongue;
I wept as I remembered
how often you and I
Had laughed about Los Angeles
and now ’tis here you’ll lie;
Here pickled in formaldehyde
and painted like a whore,
Shrimp-pink incorruptible,
not lost nor gone before.
Remember, children: identity politics causes brain shrinkage.
Related “In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values”
Related.
The Mao-lings are triggered and both the administration and faculty jump. Gotta keep those government-guaranteed funds flowing, principles be damned.
Everyone knows who run Bartertown.
Darleen’s link is nicely written and spot-on, of course, but I would point to the recent influx of civilian aid to Houston, Texas as defense of “bourgeois values.”
I would point to the recent influx of civilian aid to Houston, Texas as defense of “bourgeois values.”
many times, THIS.
“It must be so hard being that woke all the time.”
I love this little exchange from that thread:
“…white people have never been systematically targeted by people of colour on a widespread scale”
“Except for the Barbary slave trade, but who cares, right?”
And the Janissaries, of course.
Being woke is evidently a competitive business.
This has been noted and explained in terms of existing economic theory:
https://iea.org.uk/blog/the-economics-of-political-correctness
Tl;dr: PC credentials are positional goods.
“…white people have never been systematically targeted by people of colour on a widespread scale”
“Except for the Barbary slave trade, but who cares, right?”
Oh, and there was that slight occurrence when a small, minor, hardly noticeable, touring group of Mongols visited Europe.
Loved the cartoon of all the other ethnic groups dancing happily together if the white people were all dead. So believable! And happens so often in countries without white people!
Two thoughts come to mind.
1-he wants to get laid. By purple-hair girl.
2-Not new. Haven’t you seen the white kids who wear their pants around their ankles and say ‘yo’ a lot? He’s just verbalizing their visualizing.
To wit:
http://nypost.com/2017/09/05/indian-man-flies-to-florida-to-beat-his-sons-disobedient-wife/
Indian in-laws fly to Florida to beat son’s ‘disobedient’ wife: cops
The family that beats disobedient wives together stays together.