Annihilation Of Bourgeois Life Delayed Somewhat
Brace yourselves for crushing news:
A radical socialist group at Indiana University-Bloomington is disbanding itself after realising that its efforts only reinforced the “bourgeois” nature of the institution.
Apparently, these tireless enemies of “patriarchy, white supremacy, socioeconomic inequality, and imperialism,” are outraged by “whiteness,” by “colonialism,” by “rape culture,” and by the cost of the campus policing that their own actions have made necessary. The group is also fatigued by the fact that bourgeois life has somehow resisted their full-spectrum onslaught. Specifically,
The radical group has been an active promoter of anti-capitalist vandalism on campus, and has distributed pamphlets that urged students to destroy the property of right-leaning organisations. In its lengthy public statement, the group goes on to argue that the university is indoctrinating students with neoliberal ideologies and is training the campus police, who they refer to as “slave catchers,” to detain and “murder” people of colour.
The campus environment, we’re told, “keeps bourgeois students in the bourgeoisie,” “reproduces class” – and worse, enables tomorrow’s “small business owners.” And so, the mighty Mao-lings will now direct their heroic and selfless efforts to “the larger community,” while plotting to “dismantle the capitalist settler-state of the USA.”
And remember, running a small, successful business is a sign of “domination” and therefore obscene. According to Oakland’s Mao-ling contingent.
supporting one’s family and enabling employees to support theirs is a bad thing…“the wealth” is something to be “allocated” by an enormous government apparatus
Yes, very odd: An individual store owner offering someone X dollars a week to run the cash register or stock shelves is “domination”, but a government telling everyone that they must take the job they are assigned and work for the wages decreed is “freedom”. One can only suppose that these enlightened beings are deluded by theory and by a psychological defect.
How do these people get out of the house in the morning? Where do you go when you’re already so far beyond parody that it in a different timezone.
One can only suppose that these enlightened beings are deluded by theory and by a psychological defect.
I do wonder how one could ever walk back from such a worldview. Does reality ever impinge on their revolutionary fantasies? Would vanity permit it? Or do they end up old and resentful, and still coughing up the same Marxoid claptrap?
For instance, Bearded Hat Guy, above, who looks down his nose while regurgitating his lectures notes, and who fantasises about punishing random strangers for daring to own a small restaurant – what will he be doing in forty years? Will he be happy? Will his have been a life well lived?
(Yes, I know. That was Doctor Who. Sue me.)
You could have fooled me. I think you’ve inadvertently stumbled upon a kind of Poe’s Law of science fiction.
David
That was filmed in 2011 I think.
Can the resources of the mighty galactic leaky, creaky-barge community locate this guy and see what he is up to? Has he grown up? Is he working for a major corporation in sales, has he opened a Starbucks franchise or is he still stuck in his own private little time warp?
That was filmed in 2011 I think.
Yes. And it would, I think, be interesting to revisit these clowns every decade or so, to see how their convictions – professed with such certainty – are holding up.
Will he be happy? Will his have been a life well lived?
Yes, but my chief concern is with the many people will have made unhappy and the lives he will have damaged. Those are the ones who most deserve our compassion.
How do these people get out of the house in the morning?
The prospect of doing harm thrills them and energizes them.
Those are the ones who most deserve our compassion.
It wasn’t so much compassion as morbid curiosity. I was curious about the trajectory, as it were.
This is what happens when a nation becomes so prosperous that it thinks wildlife is something to be worshipped rather than feared.
Now you’ve done it. I could write 10,000 words on this topic, though I’d substitute “Nature” generally for wildlife. Any un-woke person who’s spent ten minutes at Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon can give a witness of the truth of that statement. Nature is not an effing petting zoo or a Disneyland ride, you twits.
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*Hits preview button multiple times to check italics tags*
[ Quietly slides revolver back under bar. Straightens beer mats. ]
I was curious about the trajectory, as it were.
Insert catapult clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. “Moo!”
The prospect of doing harm thrills them and energizes them.
Having poked through this stuff, and these people, for more than a decade, the two common motives do seem to be vanity and malice. It’s telling, for instance, that the Mao-lings’ alleged consciousness-raising almost always takes the form of harassment, insults and attempts to dominate, either physically or psychologically. And so we’ve seen them using loudhailers in a library so no-one else could study for exams; and blocking the path of white students and making them walk through mud; and trapping a wheelchair-bound woman in a lobby and jeering at her predicament; and shattering the windscreen of a random female motorist, then laughing as they videoed her distress. Endless variations of the same dumb malevolence.
If you’re sufficiently twisted, and insufficiently deterred, it’s a powerful motivator.
Drs. Mengele & Karadzic were unavailable for comment.
See also Drs Crippen and Shipman.
“I had to remind myself, twice, that Dotun Adebayo is a 57-year-old man.”
Why doesn’t he just buy a Harley like everyone else?
“An individual store owner offering someone X dollars a week to run the cash register or stock shelves is “domination”, but a government telling everyone that they must take the job they are assigned and work for the wages decreed is “freedom””
My father visited Romania in the ’60s. It was right at the beginning of Ceucescu’s reign, and it was still considered an interesting destination. He got talking to his “travel agent”, because it turned out she’d trained in law, as he had. So why was she doing this? “Because I speak English. I trained as a lawyer, that’s what I wanted to do. But the communists gave me a ‘choice’: be a travel agent, or work in the fields. What would you do?”
Only tangetially related, in that Steyn often talks about the same kind of things we do here, but I bet David wishes he’d thought of this headline.
the communists gave me a ‘choice’: be a travel agent, or work in the fields
In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take a human life. He replied: “I don’t know, I’ve only ever killed communists”
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5si2ju/in_1967_polish_mercenary_rafal_ganowicz_was_asked/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafa%C5%82_Gan-Ganowicz
I’m sure his point of view derived from close and prolonged contact with commies.
I bet David wishes he’d thought of this headline.
If I had a pound for every headline I’d coveted… well, I wouldn’t be here talking to the likes of you heathens for a start. I’d be on a giant bejewelled yacht, reclining, sipping a good red, while the help peeled grapes for my perusal.
Fair point, well made. 🙂
I’d be on a giant bejewelled yacht, reclining, sipping a good red, while the help peeled grapes for my perusal.
Let me know if you need a sailing master. 🙂
And so we’ve seen them using loudhailers in a library
I’d never heard the term “loudhailer” before. (In US English, it’s a “bullhorn”.)
“The Revolutionary Anti-Colonialist Pictish Collective would like to have a word with you.”
SPLITTERS!
You need to talk to the Revolutionary Collective of Anti-Colonialist Picts.
Yes, but here it seems mainly to be at the behest of the health fascists. Look at the Twitter feeds of Irn Bru and Ribena (2 formerly popular drinks which have reduced their sugar content in response to George Osborne’s happy tax on sugary drinks) or, to save time, at Chris Swowdon’s omnibuses of highlights.
Of course, an rap lyrics were included on GCSE syllabi, text book publishers and exam boards would be risking prosecution.
For instance, Bearded Hat Guy, above, who looks down his nose while regurgitating his lectures notes
Would that be Hal? 🙂
“Look at the Twitter feeds of Irn Bru and Ribena (2 formerly popular drinks which have reduced their sugar content in response to George Osborne’s happy tax on sugary drinks)”
What frustrates me is that people only seemed to notice the desucrification* of fizzy pop after it became mandatory. It’s been getting harder and harder to find real, unadulterated, lemonade for years. Now, no doubt, it’ll be impossible and I’ll have to resort to Coke this summer. Which is okay, but I’ll pay the sugar tax. Because I drink about two bottles of the stuff a year, and must be punished.
Dammit, I
likeliked lemonade.*Made that up. Sounds right.