I’m Sensing Unrest
And so, an open thread, in which to share links and bicker.
I’ll set the ball rolling with the gushing brains of Harvard’s best, and, via Captain Nemo, a textbook display of socialism, darling.
Our betters, you see.
Update:
In the comments, John notes the agitation of Ms Janover, our Harvard intellectual, and adds, rather drily, “Something is obviously upsetting her.” Well, yes. As a Higher Being, she’s offended by “entitled caucasity,” by which she means expectations of reciprocity.
Needless to say, the upset continues. Despite being quoted verbatim – and despite her own video, which she saw fit to share, presumably expecting applause – Ms Janover is now claiming that she has been cruelly misrepresented by “Trump supporters,” whose “hate” she denounces. After threatening to stab people who disagree with her. We’re told, furthermore, that she will “never be silenced into shame.” Which is rather the problem, one might think.
The not-at-all-entitled Ms Janover is also, it seems, astonished that sharing stabby meltdown videos is not a good way to impress employers.
“Half of you don’t even have a college education!”
Honk! Honk!
Honk! Honk!
It is rather glorious when, with immense self-regard and utter obliviousness, they reveal their actual motivations, their actual psychology.
Mz Janover is careful to disclaim her statements as “a joke” for “legal reasons”, whatever that means.
Meanwhile…“…Eleven New Yorkers were shot across 12 hours that night, with several of the victims refusing to cooperate in any investigation. And that doesn’t include the couple gunned down with an AR-15-style rifle Saturday afternoon on an East New York stoop….”
https://nypost.com/2020/06/28/fresh-signs-of-nyc-spiraling-out-of-control/
I actually laughed out loud at 0:30, when Prancer says, “You wanna sit here and tell me that you’re educated enough to make demands about shit you know nothing about!” I mean, we go on all the time about projection and lack of self-awareness, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it performed quite so clearly and comically.
(I would have given that black cop a tenner if he’d just winked and said “You know you’re not my type, sweetheart.”)
Make life miserable for residents and business owners in the neighborhood? “Summer of love! Democracy in action!” Make life miserable for the mayor and her family? Send in the riot squad.
So nice of Mayor Jenny to remind everybody of how the rules work.
I mean, we go on all the time about projection and lack of self-awareness, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it performed quite so clearly and comically.
Oh, it’s a real thing and extraordinarily common. And if you could somehow subtract the vanity, projection, pretence, and games of spite and status, there wouldn’t be much left of modern, middle-class leftism.
My initial impression is that Miss Harvard appears to possess a fair few privilege points (presumably intelligent, wealthy enough to afford Ivy League fees, extremely cute if terminally annoying, definitely not black) so no obvious signs of being oppressed.
Something is obviously upsetting her. Maybe it’s because she has a paper cut?
Something is obviously upsetting her.
As a Higher Being, she’s offended by expectations of reciprocity.
But hey, feel the love.
‘The CHAZ/CHOP “security” folks are shooting unarmed black men and boys at a much greater rate than the Minneapolis police, who are what this is supposedly all about.’
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/384220/
there wouldn’t be much left of modern, middle-class leftism
There isn’t anything remaining, and we’re all seeing the subsequent results. Equality under the law WAS achieved, as well as it had ever been in our flawed species’ history. Socialism and communism WERE achieved, and continue to be, all over the globe.
Every single major western institution is very obviously influenced if not outright controlled by the global left. Christianity has been toppled and its tenets successfully ported to collectivist political dogma. Socialist medicine and education – the bedrocks of collectivist political control – are so commonplace that rightwingers routinely defend and expand them. The internet was born free but lives in a world controlled by the left, so was naturally consumed into the left’s sphere of influence.
With the notable exception of American gun rights (for which the science is settled in favor of the gun nuts) the global left has outright won or in the process of winning every war it has started.
So what’s left for the saintly freedom fighters out there who’ve been handed a Gramscian dynasty on a silver platter? Nothing, except to deal with the dissonance created by the fact that utopia has not arrived and the busy work of making everyone ignore who’s fault that could be.
“Half of you don’t even have a college education!”
Class struggle!
Class struggle!
Heh. I did quite like this reply.
“Send in the riot squad.”
I’ve been watching it live all afternoon (UK time). It’s actually been astonishingly quiet. Most of the tents were empty. I get the distinct impression that they could have done this weeks ago. But then, the “protesters” didn’t turn up at Mayor Jenny’s door weeks ago…
I mean, we go on all the time about projection and lack of self-awareness, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it performed quite so clearly and comically.
Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
‘Stereotype’…
https://twitter.com/AbuWankinobbi/status/1278357088478072833
‘Stereotype’
It’s something very close to a self-refuting statement. And it’s curious how much time and effort various police forces are devoting to deterring people from noticing reality.
Heh. I did quite like this reply.
What we’ve paid in plumbing repairs over the last year, I believe we’re funding our plumber’s new boat.
‘Stereotype’…no posted mugshots unless they pose a risk to public safety
And what happens if dark-skinned San Franciscans are stubbornly over-represented among the mugshots they do publish? I’m guessing it’s the same answer to the “what happens if there’s NEVER an effective Wuhan Virus vaccine?” question. IE, “F*ck You. Gibsmedat”.
Also, let’s hear a cheer for a win on police transparency and open government records by not allowing the public to see who’s being oppressed by the state!
[ Swipes for today’s open thread. ]
Point comments that way.
Thanks, Nemo.
Heh, and no problem. I think this is the second thing I’ve posted that’s made its way into a post of its own, the first being that Library Journal article/tweet from last year. The dynamic at work is, I think, quite telling. And frankly, if that’s what a college education does to people, I can see more parents refusing to send their children. Which can only be a good thing.
Class struggle!
Heh. I did quite like this reply.
This one’s rather good too: https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1278317115129249792
I went to school for 16-18 years, depending on how you count. Yet I have no idea WTLF the words in this paragraph really mean…
Now whose fault is that, I ask you.
I think this is the second thing I’ve posted that’s made its way into a post of its own,
The jet-set lifestyle is only a matter of time.
“Half of you don’t even have a college education!”
The worst kind of hippies: college know-it-all hippies. /South Park
So what’s left for the saintly freedom fighters out there who’ve been handed a Gramscian dynasty on a silver platter? Nothing, except to deal with the dissonance created by the fact that utopia has not arrived and the busy work of making everyone ignore who’s fault that could be.
I’ve never been able to find the direct quote but such observations always remind me of something Jack Kerouac quoted from Dostoyevsky that If you give man his utopia, he will destroy it with a grin.
And frankly, if that’s what a college education does to people, I can see more parents refusing to send their children.
I think we’ve reached the limit of what gets called a college education. A lot of these so-called professional students are not enrolled in full time programs. They take a course here and a course there while working at Starbucks and tell people they’re college students. Just look at the ages of many of the protestors. They are well beyond what most of us consider college age. I’d be very surprised if Tinkerbell had actually graduated from anything.
THIS
“THIS”
Yes. But she must have the patience of a saint. I’m sure I wouldn’t last ten minutes on one of those committees without yelling at the idiots.
Here’s a peach:
via Steve Sailer
Here’s a peach:
Today’s words are craven and degenerate.
“If you give man his utopia, he will destroy it with a grin.”
Google books is great for these kinds of searches. From “The Philosophy of the Beats,” an essay in it from Christopher Adamo:
“To my knowledge, Kerouac uses the term ‘utopia’ only once in his novels — in Desolation Angels: “Dostoevsky said ‘Give man his Utopia and he will deliberately destroy it with a grin’ and I was determined with the same grin to disprove Dostoevsky!”
Adamo continues: “The passage itself raises all the modern ambiguities of the term ‘utopia,’ as the type of ‘utopia’ Dostoevsky has in mind in the quoted passage is precisely the overly programmatic utopias that threatened man’s liberty, dignity, and integrity; and it is hardly the case that Kerouac understood his work as an attempt to show that a person could be happy in such a regimented, scientifically planned and micromanaged society.”
Thus endeth the lesson.
Successfully?
One of the fundamental tenets of Christianity is forgiveness. There’s d—-d little of that in collectivist theory or practice.
The porting went from collectivist dogma to Christianity.
Here’s a peach
If I may repeat here what I posted on their facebook page (so long as it stands):
Yes, Uma. As I recall last I made the effort to look it up, that was the closest I could find. But I have yet to find where, and in what context, Dostoyevsky himself actually said it.
My initial impression is that Miss Harvard appears to possess a fair few privilege points (presumably intelligent, wealthy enough to afford Ivy League fees, extremely cute if terminally annoying, definitely not black) so no obvious signs of being oppressed.
Not necessarily intelligent, or wealthy: Harvard admits a proportion of the former (and not just Kennedys, either; remember that Horst Weasel – David Hogg – was admitted after being turned down by Long Beach State fer cryin’ outloud), and a considerable number of the latter. Relatively few Harvard students pay full tuition. The sticker price is for the scions of wealthy American families with dumb kids (think Lori Laughlin and USC) and the kids of high-profile foreign potentates.
where, and in what context, Dostoyevsky himself actually said it.
Oops, please forgive me. I misread.
Back to the airplane glue.
Back to the airplane glue.
I take it you didn’t bring enough for everybody, did you? SMDH
Obnoxious, self-righteous and more than a little stupid…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3LNZWR8XA
“I’ve never been able to find the direct quote but such observations always remind me of something Jack Kerouac quoted from Dostoyevsky that If you give man his utopia, he will destroy it with a grin.”
I believe Jordan Peterson has attributed something like that to Dostoyevsky. (Possibly in Crime and Punishment or The Demons, because those are the two books of his on Jordan Peterson’s reading list.)
Heh. Cool. I went looking for C&P at the library the last month or two but they don’t seem to have it. I’m sure it’s in the system somewhere. I’ll have to order it now. This question has been puzzling/bugging me for 30 years now. Was not aware of The Demons. Hopefully it’s short-ish as well? I lack the patience for 1000 pages of stuff. I did enjoy Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina but gave up on D’s The Idiot many years ago. One of the few novels I ever quit on. Not that it’s totally relevant but I did read Moby Dick during our lockdown, so hmmmm…but i have tons more stuff to do now.
Hopefully it’s short-ish as well?
A short Dostoevsky novel? No such luck. The Demons/The Possessed is even longer than Crime and Punishment.
…gave up on D’s The Idiot many years ago.
Natasha Cocktease learns a hard lesson. The End.
I think we’ve reached the limit of what gets called a college education.
Given the ongoing list of band names and albums, and given the overall background, the band that David keeps calling for should be:
Manowar scale, complete with choir and orchestra, singing extremely loudly of being utterly innocuous and totally meticulously calculating accountants.
And again, particularly modelled after Manowar, and related.
The albums will be the reference source for songs going over concepts like double entry bookkeeping.
But I have yet to find where, and in what context, Dostoyevsky himself actually said it.
He probably said it in Russian…which may make it easier to find.
He probably said it in Russian…which may make it easier to find.
This is true. Not many Russians have said things.
Something is obviously upsetting her.
The upset continues. Despite being quoted verbatim – and despite her own video, which she saw fit to share, presumably expecting applause – Ms Janover, our Harvard high-thinker, is now claiming that she has been cruelly misrepresented by “Trump supporters,” whose “hate” she denounces. After threatening to stab people who disagree with her. We’re told, furthermore, that she will “never be silenced into shame.” Which is rather the problem, one might think.
Ms Janover is also, it seems, astonished that sharing stabby meltdown videos is not a good way to impress potential employers.
NWfLR: “Mz Janover is careful to disclaim her statements as “a joke” for “legal reasons”, whatever that means.”
Turns out, it don’t mean jack:
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1278487434544549888
The stabby Harvard grad has been fired, apparently. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/07/01/unstable-blm-supporter-threatens-stabbing-spree-to-prove-tiktok-wokeness-gets-fired-blames-world/
Just this minute updated the post.
And regarding the socialism, darling clip, this is apposite.