Friday Ephemera
Motoring scenes. || Must go faster. || Assorted foxes. || Jolly jellies. || Today’s word is plausible. || Parenting choice of note. || Remember, loyal citizens, always respect the media. || Runaway duck. || Everything is racist. || Sshh. I think I hear something in the woods. || Modern woes. || So woke, a thread. (h/t, Tim) || A little one. || Sowell on Marx. || One million begonias. || He does this better than you. || How to tie your shoes, with lots of bonus maths. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Street transaction of note. || And finally, fragrantly, “Offerings are made to the fart god.”
A very informative essay.
Yes, it appears in The Thomas Sowell Reader.
It isn’t an enormous stretch to think of much of Marx’s output as an elaborate attempt to rationalise his own rather awful personality – the narcissism, selfishness and arrested adolescence; the pathological irresponsibility; the endless mooching. To say nothing of his openly sadistic, indeed class-genocidal, fantasies. That Marxism has subsequently attracted so many narcissists and sociopaths is hardly surprising. Though it’s sort-of funny just how precisely Marx’s own character traits anticipate those of countless middle-class lefties in the many decades since.
See also the chapter on Marx in Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals, which is, I think, better; certainly even more damning.
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Both of which are available via the Amazon links, top right.
Is New York Democrat Jerry Nadler our own Hal 9000? Jerry Nadler Says Antifa Is Imaginary.
See also the chapter on Marx in Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals
Yes, an excellent book. Very much worth reading.
It isn’t an enormous stretch to think of much of Marx’s output as an elaborate attempt to rationalise his own rather awful personality […] That Marxism has subsequently attracted so many narcissists and sociopaths is hardly surprising.
See also:
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Muhammad-Psychobiography-Allahs-prophet/dp/0980994802/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=understanding+muhammad&qid=1593200808&sprefix=understanding+muh&sr=8-3
Though it’s sort-of funny just how precisely Marx’s own character traits anticipate those of countless middle-class lefties in the many decades since.
That.
I’m wondering what a “holistic, health-based” approach to armed robbery or rape looks like.
“I’m wondering what a “holistic, health-based” approach to armed robbery or rape looks like.”
What a difference a week makes.
I’m wondering what a “holistic, health-based” approach to armed robbery or rape looks like.
I’m sure it won’t be pretty. They say:
Although approaches toward using the wrong pronoun or refusing to toe the BLM/Antifa line will probably lead to a more hands on approach.
This is about who controls the police. Ultimately, when control ends up in the wrong hands “Community” policing becomes the NKVD, the Stasi, or the SS.
I’m wondering what a “holistic, health-based” approach to armed robbery or rape looks like.
We’ve seen that before 100 years ago: Robbers and rapists are victims of capitalist oppression, while those who quietly disagree with Marxists are enemies of the people.
Ultimately, when control ends up in the wrong hands “Community” policing becomes the NKVD, the Stasi, or the SS.
Minneapolis liberals voted for this, and they deserve to get it good and hard.
Reality check:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/06/harlem-black-residents-push-back-against-abolishing-the-police/
Minneapolis liberals voted for this, and they deserve to get it good and hard.
Indeed. They’re about to learn why Oscar Wilde said: “There are two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” Oh well.
…which would be part of the Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention.”
I meant to add that we’ve seen the definition of “violence” stretched beyond all credibility, so disagreeing with Marxists definitely equates to “violence” today
Is there such a word as self-defenestration?
A musical interlude.
‘K, it’s three entire ~58 minute chunks, but one can still fit ’em in between something . . . .
Oh, the world is getting very dark. Here, have a palate cleanser:
http://twitter.com/backt0nature/status/1276421335980400640
A contrast in temperaments.
It does, I think, work on a symbolic level, a shorthand for the broader phenomenon. Sort of, “How dare you disagree! I should just get my way! I shouldn’t have to know things!”
Again, it does rather suggest a profound failure of parenting.
It isn’t an enormous stretch to think of much of Marx’s output as an elaborate attempt to rationalise his own rather awful personality
See also Sigmund Freud
Again, it does rather suggest a profound failure of parenting.
Quite possibly. Or she might have had perfectly sensible parents but then attended university where she told that she is the victim of a thousand years of violence and oppression by white people and therefore should be very very angry. And so she became very very angry and found that the chattering classes cheered her on, and it felt good.
Me, reading This Twitter thread
Quite possibly. Or…
That too. It does matter who gets to educate your children.
“Simple color blindness is not enough to make women and people of color feel welcome and fully equal in spaces in which few of them have been admitted.”
Yeah, that’s a handy excuse, isn’t it? War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Colourblindness is Racism.
None of this makes one jot of sense until you understand that certain groups are actively trying to reopen racial divides in the west in order to weaken us.
“This is about who controls the police. Ultimately, when control ends up in the wrong hands “Community” policing becomes the NKVD, the Stasi, or the SS.”
In the Soviet case, that’s precisely what happened:
… i.e., the MVD, later to become the NKVD.
“Minneapolis liberals voted for this, and they deserve to get it good and hard.”
Note that in Russia it was the pre-revolutionary Provisional Government which started the ball rolling. Whether through sympathy with the Bolsheviks or in an attempt to appease them I don’t know, but Lenin inherited the Militsya/MVD; he didn’t have to create it.
Oh, and let’s not forget, returning to that last point, that the Russian revolution was fomented by Germany to get the Russians out of WWI.
“Is there such a word as self-defenestration?”
The thread is priceless. “Good luck finding the talking dog”.
“A contrast in temperaments.”
“Waaaaah! It’s so unfair! I hate you! Uuuuurgh!”
Simple color blindness is not enough
The alternatives are well known and not generally considered attractive. Not being overly interested in a person’s race is, in the real world, as good as it gets. All other directions are downhill.
One more time. Always respect the media.
Via Damian.
One more time. Always respect the media.
‘Today’s word is gaslighting’…
Not being overly interested in a person’s race is, in the real world, as good as it gets.
The usual whine that “color-blindness” is Evil Racism(tm) is the claim that “but I don’t see your race, I see you” is all about “race” in that statement, not the “you”.
Of course I *see* the “race” of someone I meet for the first time. I’m introduced to someone new at an office meeting, I’m told their name “A” and I see their sex, height, hair color, eye color, clothing – all quick sketch notes for I can then identify “A” and remember them at the next meeting or in the office. But if I start spending more time with this person – working on a project together, or becoming friends – ALL those characteristics fade into the background as “A” becomes a familiar part of my life and I learn all the other things that make “A” a unique individual with unique likes/dislikes, interests, skills and life experiences.
Leftism is dedicated to wiping out those relationships – from destruction of the family to dictating who/where/how is acceptable socialization.
Leftism is dedicated to wiping out those relationships – from destruction of the family to dictating who/where/how is acceptable socialization.
The word is atomization; break down all human bonds not in service to the ideology and raise in their place those that serve to maintain loyalty to the ideology and its authors. Divide the followers from everything that might give them succor outside of the ideology so that they will have it alone to cling to. Promise righteousness, praise, and earthly rewards in exchange for serving the ideology in ways that will further alienate the followers from all those outside the fold, blood relatives included.
Muhammad did this in 7th century Arabia. Marxists have been sowing it for a century. The “woke” of today are so divided from everything that many are willing to transform themselves into grotesque, neon-haired psuedo-hermaphrodites in order to more deeply “belong” in the Pandemonium of Intersectionality. And if that leaves such individuals so unattractive that no one will sleep with them unless it is to prove their own ideological purity, how does the ideology lose?
Praise Zeus. I was getting angst.
From the comments in /.:
I always wanted to know what it was like to live during the time of the Civil War, the Spanish Flu, Great Depression, Civil Rights Movement, Watergate, and the Dust Bowl. Just not all at once though.
Hmmm. Interesting tech commentary:
Journalist’s Phone Hacked: All He Had To Do Was Visit a Website. Any Website.
There is also a locust plague…
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/14/876002404/locusts-are-a-plague-of-biblical-scope-in-2020-why-and-what-are-they-exactly
There is also a locust plague…
Details, details . . . .
This week in pictures
Oh, don’t worry, she’s only a thousand feet up in the air . . .
“Is It Possible”, “That”, “Just About Anything”, “Could Be”, “A” and “Band Name”
“Everything’s A Song Cue”
https://www.gocomics.com/culdesac/2010/04/26
“Interesting tech commentary:”
I like this comment down the thread: “That’s a clear violation of GDPR. They need to post a consent popup before continuing with an injection attack. Infiltration without consent is illegal, make sure your company is not doing it.”
Remember, she’s an educator.
“Remember, she’s an educator.”
Andrew Doyle (the guy who writes Titania McGrath) must be sobbing into his beer. We’ve all been saying for years that the world has gone beyond parody, but seriously… Cambridge University, which refused to defend Jordan Peterson remember, actually promoted this headcase.
Cambridge University, which refused to defend Jordan Peterson remember, actually promoted this headcase.
They also refused to defend Noah Carl when he had his issues with the outrage mob, and in fact dismissed him from his research post. The cynic in me can’t help wondering if not defending those two gentlemen was a deliberate ploy by Cambridge University precisely for this reason. This way, Cambridge can say “Look, we took on board what you guys said about freedom of speech the last time this happened, so why aren’t you happy?” In a perverted way, I’m glad they are defending her on freedom of speech grounds, even if the speech in question is abominable. I’d just like them to extend the same courtesy to those academics who aren’t passengers on the woke train. But I suspect that that’s too much to hope for.
How to tie your shoes, with lots of bonus maths
My favorite mathologer video is this one, which introduces a new way to make a bicycle with non-circular wheels: it obviates the need for hinged suspension of the wheels and reduces friction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eQaF6OmWKw