158 MORE PEARLS OF WISDOM FROM JOLLYROGER.COM

1. Liberals detest the Truth so much that they will often refuse to make money off of it. It’s a matter of principle. 2. The main problem with liberal solutions to liberal problems is that they cause more liberal problems which afford opportunities for more liberal solutions. 3. Venture Capitalists can’t afford poetry. 4. Cynicism and irony are the liberals’ faith, and to be accepted into their elite ranks, one must harbor lowered expectations in one’s heart. One must believe that words shouldn’t mean anything, one must believe that character is of no import in leaders nor novels, one must be “ironic” and do their very best to accept lies when one cannot believe them. One must not hope nor pray for those things only God can give us, but with a sense of irony, one must humble themselves before almighty Money and the State. 5. Until J.D. Salinger wins the Nobel Prize in literature, the prize will have no credibility. 6. Until Rush Limbaugh wins the Nobel Peace Prize, it will have no credibility either. 7. Walking through my old high school not so long ago I saw that the liberals had taken down a sign reading “The Lord maketh and the Lord taketh” with one reading “The Government taketh.” They had also installed metal detectors. 8. Money and the pursuit of wealth was criticized throughout the eighties as that was before the MBAs figured out how to put the feminists to work in internet pyramid schemes and use them to sanctify vulgar cultural creations. 9. Today writing is the one sport where the minor leagues get paid more than the majors. 10. Until liberals acquire the honesty and courage to admit they’re liberals, nothing that they write, publish, edit, nor email shall endure. 11. Because I write, I have known Truth’s freedom. 12. Liberals never criticize jollyroger.com in public, for deep down they fear the swift sword of Drake Raft’s words. 13. Liberals believe that one can overcome the Truth by ignoring it. 14. When Venture Capitalists say that profits aren’t important, they mean that profits aren’t important for you. That is why it is your duty to buy stock in their profitless companies, so they can make a killing off their dot com ponzi schemes. 15. The internet was supposed to get rid of the middleman, but it is the kingdom of middlemen selling themselves as entrepreneurs. 16. If creating writing teachers taught courses on entrepreneurship, and MBA professors taught classes on poetry, it would make no difference. 17. Liberals fear a Renaissance. 18. Many conservatives are more concerned with appearing Reaganesque rather than defending the Permanent Things. And so they do Reagan a great disservice. 19. Middlemen are marked by a belief in nothing but money and themselves. They will not fight for poetry, they will not stand for God, but they will strive to appear to when money or their egos are involved. 20. The creative writing workshop is an ingenious innovation—it allows the liberal literary establishment to rifle young postmodern critics into positions of editorial and cultural power, from where they can give positive reviews to their teachers’ books. 21. Most modern editors are those who failed to get kicked out of their creative writing workshops. 22. Postmodern culture is like an internet pyramid scheme, where cultural creations possessing no inherent worth are given vast valuations by the insider critics and cliques who profit in the short term from the hype. 23. Feminists and VCs get along perfectly well on modern college campuses—they both work hard to stem the tide of classical truths, such as you get what you pay for, one cannot serve both God and Money, and honor your husband. 24. MBA administrators fell in love with feminists when they realized they could put them to work selling deconstruction and decline. 25. When liberals publish and promote cultural crap, they call it postmodernism. When you don’t buy it, they call you cynical. 26. Market research for jollyroger.com is simple—everyone should read the classics. 27. Many modernists would claim that Jesus would be too divisive to head their organizations. For He once said that one cannot serve both God and Mammon. 28. Those who advocate and allow deconstruction and decline are willingly destroying the poet’s private property. 29. I have seen further into the future because I have looked further into the past. 30. Those who spend their days studying stock quotes are oft left with little to quote. 31. Unlike most other internet startups, jollyroger.com’s primary purpose is not money, but a renaissance. For both reasons we are of little interest to the media. 32. One of the prices of being ahead of yer time is that ye’ll be misunderstood and persecuted by otherwise well-meaning people. All moral visionaries must carry this cross. 33. The darkest element of cultural decline is that so many don’t even notice it. 34. In the dark one does not notice the fog, and thus as their souls are eroded from an early age, they will not notice the decline. 35. Few men have beacons of Truth burning within them. 36. It is difficult to communicate the beauty of the eternal soul while hanging out in a smoky bar with one’s peers, listening to some band covering the Rolling Stones. 37. Have ye ever believed in something so much that ye decided to devote yer life to it come hell or high water? If not, it’s best if ye don’t pass judgment on me. And maybe ye shouldn’t even read this. 38. Once upon a time children were children. Today they are viewed primarily as consumers of sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll who will someday vote for big government to clean up the mess. 39. No writer who passes righteous judgement upon the postmodern liberals shall have their fiction published, until they die—the postmodern liberals that is. 40. The postmodern leaders’ strategy has been to deconstruct God in the peoples’ hearts and appoint all their friends and lawyers to the committees which strive to overrule Natural Law. 41. If George Washington had worried more about appearing Reaganesque than winning the war, we would have lost the American Revolution. 42. Silicon Valley has no rhyming poets—the VC MBAs and communist deconstructors all agree that there is no use for them. 43. The MBA cultural czars demand that every generation and demographic be divided. That is why they have no need for the classics, which change very slowly, teach people to be content with the enduring spiritual rather than the fleeting fashion, and unite the community of eternal souls. 44. With their shared disregard of eternal truths and the Great Books, the MBA cultural czars and postmodern liberal academics get along every well. 45. While the postmodern liberal academics deconstruct the notion of the immutable soul, the tag-team MBA cultural czars fill the vacuum with South Park and Oprah’s book club. 46. The beauty of the human soul is that sooner or later it seeks meaning over money. 47. Wise poets learn to place their faith in Time rather than in critics. 48. Although there hasn’t been much inflation, everyone’s working a helluva lot harder because there’s so much more to buy. 49. By associating itself with a conservative love of the classics and Great Books, jollyroger.com has gained the entity every young MFA postmodernist writer/critic/agent/editor longs for—the cutting edge of the anti-establishment. All we had to do was be honest and embrace the eternal truths in the Great Books. 50. Rebellion is often nothing more than loyalty to God. 51. While young postmodern writers have their rebellious appearance planned out by MBAs in their publishers’ marketing departments, our rebellion stems from our integrity. 52. John Updike, Thomas Wolfe, and John Irving seem to be in disagreement as to who is the greatest author of our times. I’m not even sure if they’d place. Way ahead of them there’s Toni Morrison, The South Park authors, Joyce Carol Oates, Steven King, John Grisham, David Foster Wallace, David Letterman, Ally McBeal, Jedediah Purdy, and KISS. 53. One of the funnier things is watching David Foster Wallace try to be a subversive rebel. I tried to read his books, but found the media buzz far more entertaining than his polished nihilism. 54. Cynicism is something the majority of people don’t feel about themselves, but only about the postmodern liberal media. But the liberal media projects their failings and frustrations upon us, all the while doing their best to smother any hints of a renaissance. 55. If everyone believed in God, the segment of the economy driven by South Park would shut down, and Allan Greenspan would cut interest rates so that all the honest folks could buy a house and raise their kids in a moral manner. 56. When Venture Capitalists ponder jollyroger.com, they think of it in terms of risk. Now I don’t see a cultural renaissance as a risk, but I see it as a necessity. And I am in no rush to work for anyone who places the bottom line over the higher ideals. For a poet, focusing on the bottom line would not be a risk, but it would be their death. 57. A feminist is often someone who has lost their virginity out of wedlock and doesn’t want to regret it. 58. Many great thinkers warned us of the cruelty of both the elite and the masses when it came to mobs pillaging the higher ideals, and many of the great thinkers were persecuted by both the mob and the tyrant, as they knew they would be. This then, is courage. To serve God on Truth’s greater adventures, knowing full well that both hell and high water shall come. 59. The greater society is very much like a small liberal arts college. Far more people go to the basketball games than read Shakespeare, The Federalist Papers, Moby Dick, and the Odyssey. 60. We’re lucky the Founding Fathers were taught by the Greats rather than by professors. 61. I have attended the same schools as the Founding Fathers. I enrolled in Jefferson’s school for architecture , I went to Benjamin Franklin’s school of business, and I attended Madison’s school of government—I read the Greats. 62. For Common Things is a tale told by a liberal, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, other than the bankruptcy of liberalism at Harvard and Yale, and the bankruptcy of liberalism when it comes to dealing with the bankruptcy of liberalism. And how ironic that Jedediah Purdy didn’t write For Common Things for the Common Man. Knopf Inc. published the postmodern critique of postmodernism because it turned a blind eye towards modern liberalism’s dark uses of postmodernism. They thanked Purdy by branding the Harvard/Exeter/Yale yuppie child a backwoodsman, which should serve him well as a liberal lawyer who must pretend to be for the people, and against entrepreneurial freedom, technological innovation, and crass marketing. The irony was too much for even the critics. Though they advertise them as opposites, both Purdy and Eggers work for the same postmodern corporations and philosophies. 63. Liberals like the pretense of postmodernism because it allows them to be liberals while denying it. 64. The honest spirit, like Einstein’s, Hamlet’s, Socrates’ or Jesus’ could never be satisfied with postmodernism, as it allows its adherents to exalt in hypocrisy, jealousy, vulgarity, cynicism, and mediocrity. 65. Those who criticize Seinfeld for being too ironic are weird. 66. Until conservatives begin paying more attention to poetry than politics, more attention to prose than policy, and more attention to building the popular culture rather than criticizing it, they will miss the opportunity to serve the community of eternal souls and inspire a renaissance. 67. Via the superficial values communicated by the mass media, liberals have been highly successful in getting women to sleep around with them from their teens through their thirties and then foregoing the raising of a family to work long hours for raising the Dow. And everybody wins. 68. Every now and then the liberal literary industry has to make someone like David Foster Wallace famous to bolster the credibility of their friends’ tax-subsidized MFA programs, and give all the graduates jobs as critics. 69. Until these Truths have an IPO, it is safe to bet that nobody on TV will ever talk about them. 70. There is justice—the talking heads on television are fated to forever talk about the superficial celebrities they relentlessly create. 71. The rise of women in the publishing industry was accompanied by the crassification and corsening of the culture in the name of commercial interests. The publishing MBAs sanctify decline with diversity. 72. Big government liberalism would work great except for one thing—they can never vote God out of the highest office. 73. I’ve been to enough faculty meetings to know that they aren’t planning any renaissances anytime soon. 74. Great are the men who can communicate optimism so effectively that it comes to be. 75. One of postmodernism’s supreme advantages is that it caters to idiots. 76. Creative writing workshops blossomed in the same period that knitting groups declined. 77. Most liberals can’t fully explain why they hate the idea of God so much. They just feel it. 78. When a feminist engages in a vice that men were criticized for just yesterday, she sanctifies it. 79. Liberals are rarely punished for sexual harassment, because they have humbled themselves before Freud, repented before Darwin, and confessed before Nietzsche. 80. Sexual harassment legislation is a political tool to be used against conservatives for the most part. Just like gun legislation. 81. Postmodernism, multiculturalism, and secularism all find common ground in money. 82. When the Founding Fathers spoke of the separation of the church and state, they never conceived of liberals who would see their government as God. 83. Liberals don’t believe in the separation of church and state, for government is their religion. They believe in the separation of state and morality. 84. The classics and great books tend not to care what the politicians and pundits say—only the poets are accepted amongst their ranks. 85. Jollyroger.com—where the popular culture is the classics. 86. The liberal publishing industry will always embrace a conservative, as long as they are a liberal. 87. It’s an arrogant mind that thinks that where there is no equation, there is no higher truth. 88. Just because a precept cannot be put into a scientific formula does not mean that it does not exist. There is no mathematical equation for the Golden rule. 89. There’s nothing ironic about decline. 90. Sure politics can be reduced to a science; it’s just that the empirical evidence takes years to collect, entire generations are subject to the shortcomings of any theories, and all personal measurements of good and bad are irrevocably tied to opinions. For all these reasons the Godless enjoy treating politics as a science. 91. The bane of our present age is not irony, but it is postmodern irony, which is not ironic, for there is nothing ironic about nihilism. 92. Irony is a movement in the direction pointed to by fundamental precepts which takes one towards entities which counter the precepts. 93. If one has no fundamental precepts, everything and nothing is ironic. 94. Intellectuals and anti-intellectuals are always looking down on one another because they are one and the same. Common sense knows this to be true. 95. Contemporary intellects and authors come and go—their clever opinions and thesaurus-weighted sentences shall be little noted nor long remembered, whereas jollyroger.com is eternal. 96. Popular culture which is soon forgotten is not all that popular. Not as popular as Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, and Jefferson. 97. Nihilist bureaucrats take great pride in their humility, because they have naught else to be proud about. Their humility is their pretension. 98. The proud villain is never in danger of hypocrisy. 99. The reformed man, who preaches what he wishes he would have practiced, is not a hypocrite, but a wizened teacher. 100. It is far easier to chronicle injustices than it is to right them. 101. Those who would wish to rid the world of irony would also wish to rid the world of Truth’s beautiful, ineffable, mysteriousness. 102. I’ll take Linux and Microsoft Word over a literary agent and editor any day. 103. Facelifts and Viagra will not add potency to the boomer’s fading literature. 104. Those who humble themselves before God shall have authority before men. 105. Postmodernism is the corruption of democracy. 106. Deconstruction is the violence of the weak. 107. Venture capitalists have little appreciation for poetry because it’s never needed their money to endure and thrive. 108. Pedants have a disdain for the commercial because they are jealous of utility. 109. Remember—if they didn’t make you, they can’t break you. 110. Sex sells and corruption pays, but honor, duty, and truth cost a lot more, and thus art created in honor of the latter is more valuable. 111. Liberals talk and write about perverse sex not because they have opportunity enjoy it, so much as they enjoy defiling God. 112. As long as sad little girls are brown-nosing the feminist gentry en route to occupying the higher editorial positions in this land, this renaissance shall encounter violent opposition. 113. Those who value their leaders for putting dollars in their pockets, rather than appealing to the higher ideals in their hearts and souls, deserve the leaders they elect. 114. Liberalism works well in the age of TV, because TV amplifies the superficial Dionysian. 115. Liberal men are pro-abortion because it makes liberal women think they’re sensitive. Liberal men might not call you the next day, but they won’t care if you go ahead and kill it. 116. Feminists have sought to and succeeded in demonstrating their superiority to men by becoming the cruelest war-mongers this earth has ever known. Over 20,000,000 innocent men, women, and children have been sent to their death via abortion. 117. Liberalism can be defined as that which counters God’s freedom and bolsters the State. 118. Liberals never age well—without souls, as their bodies and appetites wane, so do they. 119. The majority of professors are indifferent to cultural decline, as long as they get summers off and a sabbatical now and then. 120. Blind is the man who has never at one time or another disdained Big Government. Small is the man who has never spoken out against it. And evil is the man who joins it. 121. When the economy is good, thou shall not pass judgment on cultural decline. Thou shall not care that your leaders lie, nor who your children fornicate with. 122. When teachers no longer honor God, students shall no longer honor teachers. 123. Liberal literary types tend to be dull-witted, and they tend to travel in herds. And thus on the internet jollyroger.com had a huge head start—many of them are just starting to check their email. 124. Arrogance and bureaucracy have never thrived for long in America, and this is inspiring the liberals to try rewrite the Constitution. 125. This renaissance is the WWW Renaissance, because the liberals would never allow it to take root nor grow in the realms of academia and popular culture wherein they so actively seek to extinguish any traces of God’s grace. 126. Until they begin teaching Linux in creative writing workshops, the workshops will be utterly useless. 127. God has a way of springing from the void. Post tenebras lux. 128. The freedom of speech would be worth nothing without the right to bare arms. 129. The first and second amendments are but the freedom to defend God’s voice. 130. Bureaucrats rarely understand that the greatest innovation occurs within the individual spirit. Having never known an original thought, they often think that all wealth comes from inheritance or corruption. Thus through their eyes, the righteous powerful and innovative entrepreneurs appear every bit as sinister as they themselves are. 131. Perhaps very few will understand these truths today, and that marks the difference between the popular and the classical. Those who understood them over time shall eventually outnumber those who do not at any given moment. 132. Liberals enjoy chronicling decadence far more than they enjoy righting it. It is more scientific to stand by and observe, as all else goes to hell. 133. Faith is the father of patience. 134. Postmodern feminist authors rarely criticize postmodern MBAs and postmodern MBAs rarely criticize feminist authors, as they’re both benefiting from the same type of postmodern pyramid schemes. 135. Those who chronicle decadence without seeking to right it are usually in on it. 136. Liberals encourage and sanctify lawlessness so they can put more laws on the books with which they can harass conservatives and law-abiding citizens. 137. In Benjamin Franklin’s day, wisdom begat wealth, whereas today wealth begets wisdom. 138. Mandatory charity and welfare are big businesses which the government has a monopoly on. 139. Never trust a man who wants to make money off your poetry while never writing any of his own. 140. The contemporary publishing industry and elite academic club of critics, agents, and editors are naturally sympathetic to communistic ideologies, as they are in the business of being the middlemen in the redistribution of other people’s wealth. 141. Perhaps the greatest sin is not believing in yourself. 142. Many in the publishing industry look down upon all the wondrous new technologies for publishing and promoting literature, often considering it vanity publishing. But I say, if you wrote it yourself, you might as well publish it yourself. 143. Creative writing workshops generally promote people who are attracted to the pomp and circumstance of literature, but who have no appreciation nor understanding of the rugged individualism that all enduring literature requires. Such people band together as agents and experts, as critics and editors, and try to influence that which they cannot create. And so the critics become the authors, the authors become the characters, and the books become irrelevant. 144. Because bureaucrats rarely understand the nature of the innovation and creativity from which wealth derives, they are apt to believe that it is corruption by which all mavericks and entrepreneurs gain their fortunes. Thus they learn to consider themselves mavericks, entrepreneurs, and refined statesmen, while surrounding themselves with fellow politicians of decline, as they lay the foundations in relativism and build a lie. 145. If one secures other people’s money via the State to publish one’s poetry, that is noble, but if one publishes one’s poetry oneself, that is lowly vanity publishing. 146. The internet empowers the independent thinker and poet, whereby an author can leverage millions of man hours of labor—the technology within the software, hardware, and networks—so as to publish and disseminate one’s original thoughts and literature. This is why the first thing that the majority of entrepreneurs do is raise a lot of money and hire a bureaucracy. 147. Always be yourself—it is easier to learn from your own mistakes than from others’. 148. The postmodern poets and authors are all pitch-polling for last place. 149. Wall Street does not care if the culture is desecrated, as long as their money is not touched. They are too short-sighted to see that culture and money are one and the same. 150. Somebody has to win the Pulitzer Prize every year, or the Nobel; somebody has to win the presidency every four years, or a senate seat every six, but nobody ever has to voyage away out here. 151. The greatness of a book is not proportional to its length, but it is proportional to the size of the context it is written in. 152. Thank the Lord that the founding documents were written before the invention of law schools and schools of government. 153. If you want other people to work for you, begin by hiring yourself. If you wish to lead, begin by following yourself. If you want others to believe in you, begin by always saying what you believe. 154. Liberals enjoy making young authors who are too dumb to be offended by postmodernism famous. 155. Liberals politicized God’s traditions in the culture and upon the campus, and now when one writes poetry about God, they accuse them of being a politicized zealot. 156. If liberals had been present at the founding, enforcing their twisted concept of the separation of church and state, which in reality is nothing more than the promotion of a state-subsidized religion known as secular humanism, the Declaration of Independence would have never been written. Instead it would have been called the Declaration of Dependence. 157. Ignorance and wisdom both breed certainty. But only wisdom’s certainty endures, because only wisdom’s certainty is humble. 158. Young liberal writers always take great pride in their “self awareness,” which is pretty ironic, because they don’t even know they’re liberals. They’re always self-deprecating, which is also ironic, because they have no talents worthy of humility’s exertion. They consider themselves ironic, which is also pretty ironic, because they’re blind to their own paradox, blind to their own dishonesty, and blind to the Permanent Things by which all true comedy and tragedy are born, by which all enduring poetry is written, by which all deep, unfathomable irony is immortalized in art. They are ironic in their existence, but incapable of the same irony in their art, and their sense of humor is limited to finding new words for socialism.

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TWO HUNDRED AND SOMETHING PEARLS OF WISDOM
FROM THE JOLLY ROGER'S TREASURE CHEST
THE PIRATE PROPHETS STRIKE GOLD

1. If words don't mean anything, like how all the liberal-postmodern- administrator-instructors are always saying, then how come they never shut up?

2. Separation of the church and state does not mean the eradication of moral standards by the state.

3. The quickest way to a girl's heart is through her mind.

4. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and knowledge of it shouldn't be.

5. Bureaucracy breeds mediocrity, and mediocrity returns the favor.

6. The only way to pass a creative writing class is to get kicked out of it.

7. Necessity is the mother of all invention, and bureaucracy is a son of a b****.

8. Postmodernists swing a double-edged sword. They swing the sword screaming there are no truths, leveling all Greatness, and then they swing it back proclaiming their prejudices.

9. The problem with government grants in the humanities and arts is that they only ever go to the socialists who are shameless enough to ask for them.

10. The worst thing a liberal could do to Greatness was not publish us, and now, with the WWW, that doesn't matter.

11. Freud wrote the Cliffnotes to Shakespeare.

12. Those who can do are never the ones telling you you can't-- they're too busy doing it..

13. The aspect by which knowledge is born, imagination, often becomes ridiculed, castigated, and impugned in the institutions that are founded teach the knowledge, unless the leaders of the institution possess the moral vision to recognize and promote original contributions. 'Tis where democracy finds its strength, for the leaders are the people, and long before any administrator, they will recognize and appreciate an enhancement to their existence.

14. Free love isn't love.

15. The Good Ship Jolly Roger is the only contemporary vessel capable of delivering Great Literature to the people. This is because www.jollyroger.com is anchored by zero resent-laden-liberal-socialist-failed writers turned administrators or something.

16. Future authors of Great Literature will make enemies of the liberals and their intellectually-pernicious ideology.

17. The predominant contribution of feminists to literature has been a new character type-- the feminist.

18. God helps those who help themselves. Liberals hate those who help themselves. Unless it's themselves.

19. To be morally indifferent is to be an extremist. For death is an extreme state.

20. You cannot teach a man respect by denying him his dignity.

21. Tomorrow's money is worth less than today's because you can borrow it instead of earning it. 'Tis why liberals are so fond of it.

22. Today universities manufacture scholars far faster than thinking alone ever did.

23. Postmodernists are either dishonest, stupid, or both. For no man who has felt hunger truly believes that there is no such thing as the Truth.

24. By publishing pornography one is censoring the sacred.

25. The pirate motif allows us to satirize the reign of terror the liberals have been waging in the academy. Also alternative girls like guys in red bandannas.

26. When you put a price on education you devalue it.

27. The government cannot create a rugged individual. God alone can do that. The government can only destroy one.

28. Communists want big government to limit the people's freedom because they think everyone's as sinister, uncreative, and Godless as themselves. And what better method than socialism is there for mediocrity to obtain absolute power?

29. Liberals said that words don't mean anything and that everything is but politics, and now, for their literature, it is true.

30. You will never witness a liberal deconstructing another liberal's literature. There is nothing to tear down.

31. Tenure grants professors academic freedom from thinking.

32. According to liberals, the primary role of We the People is not to be entertained nor exalted by literature, but it is to fund it.

33. A Ph.D. often serves as a license to make one's ignorance one's arrogance.

34. Tenure means nothing but job security. Academic freedom is guaranteed to all Americans by the First Amendment.

35. Today divorce has a higher approval rating than the president.

36. Not all thoughts are equal in merit. Some, like these, are better than others.

37. From God we receive both our freedom and morality. A Godless society will have neither.

38. Einstein and Newton stood on the shoulders of giants to see further. The modern liberal pedant stands on their shoulders to cut their heads off.

39. Freud invented psychology for all the ambitious slackademics who couldn't understand real science.

40. The political spectrum is a circle. The far left, and the far, far right meet at the bottom.

41. There will always exist darkness. Each man decides whether to accept the darkness, and serve under it, or to dare to strike a match, showing the way, and exposing the dark deeds of the others.

42. For a match to ignite a fire, the match itself must be spent.

43. Liberals justify making money off of selling smut and their relentless degradation of culture by saying their art is only reflecting reality. 'Tis true for the liberal-- their literature reflects the reality of their movies, and their movies reflect the reality of their literature. And both reflect the reality of NEA projects.

44. History shows that men often seek to crucify prophets of the Truth.

45. I showed up at Princeton with little more than midwestern common sense and a yearning for the Truth. When they attempted to seize and destroy my private property, I let 'em know that I never hesitate to lay a resentnik on their back.

46. History also shows that men seek to study the prophets of truth, not those who crucify them.

47. Compassion alone is not enough to be compassionate with. 'Tis why liberals must seek to be generous with other people's money.

48. Morality is rooted in the spirit, not in the flesh. 'Tis why the Bible was written and not sung.

49. Liberalism assuages the guilt of many dressed-in-black ivy-league students who came from wealthy families and never had to work for a living. If anybody attempts to take the luxury of their guilt away from them, they will hold sit-ins, protests, marches and demonstrations for the Chancellor's benefit.

50. America is great because of her leaders, not because of her politicians.

51. Liberals fund the problems they seek to solve so that they can justify taxing you to fund them.

52. Anybody taking anything from aboard The Jolly Roger and reproducing it out of context shall incur The Curse of The Jolly Roger.

53. If I were on Friends, you would never see me because I'd be in my room reading Moby Dick, or something, with the Black Sabbath turned up way loud.

54. Liberalism not only legitimizes envy, jealousy, ignorance, and the lack of moral standards, but it also makes these attributes virtues. 'Tis why it has been so successful amongst people who aspire to bureaucracy.

55. These words shall find their way about the globe because they contain a commodity that all men ultimately value over all else-- the Truth.

56. Moby Dick was the greatest book ever penned upon the American shores.

57. Rush Limbaugh is the world's greatest contemporary intellectual.

58. Few things are as cruel as the bureaucrat's indifference. Except for their ignorance, and the liberal administrator's willful deceit.

59. Those well-acquainted with failure are always anxious to introduce you to it.

60. Western Science, by creating the electronic mediums which fostered rock'n roll, enabled Feminist literature. People stopped reading. Thus it's funny to watch the feminists kick Western Science around. Especially when they do it from science-studies departments.

61. The reader does not create the text. My words alone define me. As there is one God the Lord who reigns supreme over this earth, so too is there one Captain of The Jolly Roger. Those who deny this will soon find themselves in Davie Jones' Locker.

62. With the long, well-documented history bureaucracies have of oppressing the individual and totally messing things up, it's amazing how many people try out for them.

63. Feminism has made it rough on many girls in my generation. Now they're under pressure to have children while competing with men in their careers. And if you think it's rough on them, think how rough it is on the children.

64. Abortion is wrong. This I know because I do onto others as I would have them do onto me.

65. Feminists fear the feminine.

66. The living artist knows that it is not what they have created, but what they can create. The dead artist has forgotten this.

67. Inequities will always exist. But beware of men who use this fact to justify them.

68. It's funny that with all the billions and billions of dollars and presses and universities that the liberals control, www.jollyroger.com is dominating the world's literary scene for forty bucks a month.

69. If you see that a bureaucracy is falling, step out of its way.

70. The modern liberal artist, embodied by the Rock'n Roll rebel and the creative writing teacher, is the ultimate conformist.

71. Liberal university presidents who think they won't have to answer to the people for attempted murder of the Western Soul are just plain nuts. Ahoy President Shapiro! Cast yer bespectacled gaze out yer ivied window and ye'll catch a glimpse of the skull'n bones on the horizon. Argghgh! And look out yer other window and ye'll see the White Whale!

72. Beavis and Butthead are the most intelligent aspect of MTV. And they're the only performers who don't do drugs to enhance their presence.

73. A thousand thousand vortexes, eddies and whirlpools swirl about in the wake of a Great Ship. Beware of becoming ensnared in the petty politics if ye should follow. I mean look at all the freaks in English departments.

74. White-male liberal administrators are those who have benefited the most from affirmative action. For individuals of all ethnicities are good enough to succeed on their own merit, while many white male liberal administrators aren't.

75. By being indifferent towards individual achievement, the bureaucrat is empowered. It is not important what you do, but that you kiss their hiney. 'Tis why the power-mongerers tossed academic standards overboard.

76. The individual will always be a minority.

77. If the resentnik professors who dominate academia are so against capitalism, why do they harbor no hesitation about taking the tax and tuition dollars generated by the wonderful free-market system?

78. There's a strength in ignorance. But those who know this are stronger.

79. Once upon a time teachers and schools existed to awaken the moral imagination within their pupils. But today they exist to take advantage of its absence while robbing the student's tax and tuition dollars, and degrading the student's soul 'til it votes liberal.

80. Liberals intentionally write books that suck and then fund their publication with your tax and tuition dollars. Thus they redefine literature and academia as something that normal people feel alienated >from.

81. While men can be more or less indifferent, ideologies can often be cruel.

82. The WWW isn't about asking corporations nor agents nor publicists nor editors nor University presses nor committees for favors. It's about telling them The Way Things Shall Be.

83. College would be a lot cooler if they threw away all the exorbitantly priced liberal manifesto/textbooks, and made us all read the same Great Books. That way we'd be united in a common context, we'd have an alternative to MTV and pop culture, and we'd have something to talk about other than nothing. It'd be romantic.

84. Liberal administrators are fond of superficial diversity because it means they don't have to think. All they have to do is differentiate between skin colors and be able to count.

85. By eradicating standards and demolishing the language, the liberal administrator/tenured-elite professor is empowered. Until The Jolly Roger blows them out of the water.

86. All greatness begins with the capacity to be bored.

87. To describe liberalism in detail makes one a liberal.

88. To criticize nihilism is to give it a complement it does not deserve.

89. Mediocrity lusts after administrative positions.

90. Diversity didn't make this country great. Universal freedom for the human spirit did. That's what attracts people of all nations and creeds here.

91. MTV is about adults tempting innocent children with sex and drugs in order to sell products, one of them being liberalism.

92. Liberalism is popular among misguided youths because the liberal elite market it with sex, condoms, drugs, and automatic A's for agreeing that there are no truths and thus nothing to study. And the youths are misguided to begin with because the traditional family atrophied in the jealous feminist-enforced families-suck context. Such is the nature of tag-team liberalism.

93. While professing that "there are no truths" might get the postmodernist tenure at Princeton, it won't do too much good for the kid whose dad is lying to her mother.

94. Be it forever known that when we offered President Shapiro of Princeton the opportunity to allow us to present our Greatness on his campus for $30,000 a year, he turned it down in favor of promoting Joyce Carol Oate's pornography for $150,000+ a year, so that he and his liberal comrades might continue to rob the people of their tax and tuition dollars while completing the liberal destruction of Western Culture.

95. The reason why higher education costs so much is that the liberal administrators/lobbyists have arranged it so that students can take out exorbitant college loans.

96. Never before in all of history have the parents left their children such a fantastic debt. The liberals ran it up so that they could raise taxes, thus ensuring that no man would ever live free again.

97. Those who stand in the Way of The Jolly Roger shall soon sink in The Good Ship's wake.

98. Never before in all of history have so many parents forfeited on their duties of raising those who they brought into this world. And the liberals are intent on breaking today's record, so like hand over your money. Their violent will to power will not be satiated until there are no families left, and all are dependent on compassionate bureaucrats.

99. Men and women were put on this earth for one fundamental reason. To be united in Holy Matrimony and raise children in a moral context.

100. Postmodernism owes its vast success in the academies to the fact that it empowers jealous idiots, and ambitious fools are fond of socialist bureaucracies.

101. Rather than trying to create something on their own, the postmodernist strives to level the playing field by destroying what others have created.

102. While drugs and debauchery mix well with rock'n'roll and alternative lifestyles, they have no place in Great Literature nor in the traditional family. Thus drugs and debauchery should be expelled from our institutions of higher learning.

103. The more esoteric, nonsensical and arrogant you are, the greater chance you have of being granted tenure in an ivy-league humanities department. The more indecipherable and useless your creations, the better they are by liberal criteria, as they won't make any of the other wackos look bad.

104. Only those who can do can teach.

105. It would be far, far harder for the Roger's crew to not write this than it is to write it. For that is the nature of Truth.

106. If you attempt to exalt the people without a government grant or the consent of your neighborhood creative writing department, you will find yourself in the liberals' crosshairs.

107. After the Civil Rights movement liberals missed racism so much that they reinstituted it.

108. The fundamental roots of Liberalism and Conservatism are religious. For this reason government should be kept as small as possible.

109. The printed word is the most economical means for transmitting information, and the most profound. 'Tis why the new medium embodied by the WWW is a blessing for the rational soul.

110. A picture is worth a thousand words, but the ten commandments cannot be drawn.

111. Liberal administrators shall someday have to answer to this generation for robbing us of our money, our heritage, and the sacred.

112. Conservatives don't hold sit-ins and peace-outs and love-fests to get things done. Nor do they write grant proposals. They forge ahead, build magnificent ships, and start Literary Revolutions.

113. Because liberalism has its fundamental tenets rooted in free-lovin' Dionysian rebellion, it has failed in the higher ideological arena, where the Appollonian dominates.

114. One cannot rebel against the oppressive patriarchy when one doesn't know one's father.

115. Those who fail at writing for the people often find themselves writing for a paper.

116. When the ugly make the law beauty often ends up being illegal.

117. Nietzsche never laughed, and thus he missed out on half of reality.

118. The contemporary liberal literary establishment exists to degrade, destroy and desecrate Greatness, while making the postmodern fog thicker. If ye write to exalt, ye are on yer own. Ye are on yer own except for the wonderful people of this country who embrace freedom, the Truth, and God. And now the WWW lets you address their intellects without the liberals' permission.

119. If the New York editors loved literature, they'd have high-tailed it on out of New York long ago.

120. It is a small minority of people who read to destroy. It is tragic that they should reign in our institutions of higher learning.

121. Know ye that any man who strikes out on his own shall suffer the slings and arrows of those who did the same and failed, but even worse will be the violent wrath of those who lacked the courage to venture forth in the first place. For those who tried and failed know that at least they succeeded in being themselves, whereas those who never tried failed in even that. And thus the jealousy augments.

122. If ye should choose to march to your own drummer, to walk down yer own chosen path, do not take the vitriolic castigations personally. Take them as a compliment.

123. Ye cannot battle the postmodern fog by lashing out at it, for ye will fall into the void of the mere mist. One must construct a noble beacon upon the bedrock of Western Civilization, embodied by the Great Books. Thus others might sail the straight and narrow, and democracy shall prevail. The Roger will take ye there.

124. While the liberal elite enjoy seeing my generation's consciousness as an anti-intellectual, fallow field, I view it as it is-- fertile earth upon which nothing has been allowed to grow.

125. The liberal boomers love grunge and plotless, characterless generation-x nihilism because they created it. And like president Shapiro they know that there is no better way to control a generation than to deny it its meaning.

126. Most modern-day physicists are mathematical historians who know as much about Great Literature as the professors in the English department, 'cause they've never read any either.

127. If ye shoot drugs and write nihilistic prose, the liberal elite will embrace ye and place ye on a pedestal. If ye ponder, contemplate, and revel in sobriety, ye will scare the bejesus out of them, and they will unite in their efforts to destroy ye, or something.

128. You can lead a liberal to Great Literature, but you can't make them think.

129. The modern university president is the ultimate anti-intellectual. They value money, pride, and arrogance over the Truth.

130. Avast! The battle for the soul of this generation and all generations to come has just commenced, and be it known that the captains could not ask for a more gallant crew than those found aboard The Good Ship! If it weren't for yer insightful letters, demonstrating a shared commitment to the Permanent Things, we wouldn't be where we are today! Avast! And know ye that this we never forget!

131. Postmodernism is the opiate of the liberal elite

132. Marxism's fundamental concern is money. That was all that was left after they did away with God.

133. This generation shall author a renaissance as the postmodern fog lifts.

134. Arrogance isn't believing in what you do. It's funding what you do with other people's money without their consent.

135. Man has never been perfect, but at least at one time he was presented with ideals to strive for.

136. Secular humanism is the only state-funded religion.

137. The entertainment industry executives disdain the Judaeo-Christian heritage because the act of harboring it in their hearts would prevent them from selling children smut.

138. Avast! By the time ye solve the Mystery of The Jolly Roger, it will be too late.

139. To be completely free is to be free of meaning. And to be free of meaning is to be imprisoned in a void.

140. Math means nothing without words.

141. All great artists are tyrants who create in straight jackets.

142. One cannot educate without passing judgment.

143. Liberal scientists embrace Trent Reznor because he fits in with all their scientific theories which say man is but a collection of chemical reactions looking to get some in a fundamentally meaningless universe. Liberal scientists detest me because I defy their theories.

144. If this ship should go down these pearls of wisdom shall create a mountain which shall yet breach the surface of the ocean.

145. Only those who begin by walking alone end up leading people.

146. It's hard to criticize a nihilist of being a hypocrite. 'Tis why hypocrites aspire to nihilism.

147. Secular humanism is not the source of our moral values. It has to borrow them from the Judeo-Christian heritage, and it also has to give them back, with interest.

148. Liberals have discovered that contemporary kids are a great age group to tempt with porn-- many of them don't have parents who talk to them, and the unchaperoned soul is easy to seduce.

149. You'll never inspire nor exalt anyone with statistics.

150. If life imitates art, as Oscar Wilde suggested, then the NEA and the NEH are the greatest contemporary environmental hazards.

151. This country was founded upon the ideas of freedom and democracy. We only know of ideas by language. Thus a free society must value the Word.

152. In most humanities departments, all you have to do for a degree is take out some college loans and demonstrate contempt for some embodiment of Greatness.

153. Only he who takes life seriously can truly laugh.

154. The unexamined life isn't worth living, but the over examined life is no picnic either.

155. To modern liberals politics is a means to enforce truthless, baseless, arbitrary standards. To conservatives politics provides a mechanism to protect the traditions, ideals, and values by which the individual prevails and is best able to serve society.

156. Those writers who ignore yesterday's Greats shall be ignored by tomorrow's.

157. You'll never hear a feminist criticizing the decay of the family. This is because if they can't have one, nobody else should be able to either.

158. A writer should not dilute his message to reach a broader audience. He should bring his audience closer together, uniting them with the truth all men feel at the base of their souls.

159. Science does science and religion does religion. It is the mediocre mind that confuses the two, usually for purposes of obfuscation-- to muddy the waters so as to make them appear deeper.

160. If you put your faith in someone, and they betray you, then it is they who have lost, for in the end it is you who claims the faith, and they who own the betrayal.

161. All writers begin by taking life personally.

162. Even cross-dressing, Satan-worshipping, transvestites aren't enough of a novelty to boost record sales anymore.

163. The less you brown-nose bureaucrats, the more of a chance you have of signifying something with your life.

164. Many people lament that people don't read anymore, but I say there was a time when nobody did. So it is that Greatness, as the universe itself, can be born from a void.

165. Democracy is not only good for the people in general, but it also keeps kings from being deposed and tyrants from being shot.

166. Television amplifies the superficial aspects by which idolatry thrives while resentniks deconstruct the seed of abstract God-- the Word.

167. An education without a moral foundation is irrelevant.

168. One doesn't have to burn the great books to get rid of them. One can just destroy the context in which they're beautiful.

169. So it is that the politician follows the people, and the poet leads them. Thus the poet leads the politician, and the poet must follow God.

170. One cannot destroy the Great Books any more than one can destroy the human race, and any ideology which succeeds in accomplishing either will accomplish both.

171. Many socialists are indifferent towards literature and intellectual matters, and thus their intellectual aspirations are inspired by hate, resentment, and envy.

172. It is a corruption of democratic principles when the embittered are united by ambitious socialists against the honest individual.

173. Great literature cannot exist without a moral, rational context in which it can be read.

174. Even if truth and reality didn't exist, feminist literature would still suck.

175. Unlike many of my generation's artists and poets, the rock'n'roll industry didn't make me, so they'll never break me.

176. I'm not so sure that it's too cool when resentniks write the words that pretty pagans speak on the silver screen.

177. Maturing liberals crack me up. They had their unified traditional family, where the men worked and the women raised the children, and soon they'll want their social security, so both the husband and wife will have to work, while MTV raises their grandchildren.

178. One never amends society by changing the minds of aging bureaucrats. One does it by inspiring the young at heart and the children.

179. For a long time it has been a convention that Great Literature is not supposed to pass judgment. The devastating effects on society aren't too cool to witness, and thus we're changing the convention.

180. Woe to the society that runs counter to the child's innocent dreams.

181. Liberals need both parents to work so as to pay for government programs which undermine the family.

182. Not only is the liberal king wearing no clothes, but she's also doing things which I shall not set down in ink.

183. Junior high school is rough on honest, moral kids because they're blasted so hard by liberalism from all sides. The materialistic nihilism, MTV idolatry, graphic sex-ed and drugs, freak the kids out. Especially when the books, which once provided a sober alternative, have all been deconstructed.

184. Let the nihilists have the nihilism, let the socialists have the socialism, let the feminists have the feminism, and let the people have their hard-earned money and their heritage.

185. The greatest works of science, art, and literature can all be directly traced to the solitary labors of an individual. Although the individual might have stood on the shoulders of former intellectual giants so as to see further, it is the individual who climbed up there alone

186. The nihilist's favorite hobby is to gut institutions, to pillage their meaning, plunder their significance, and create a shell where politics, rather than merit, dominates.

187. If ye wish to destroy a dreamer, destroy his dreams. Destroy his faith in the rewards of hard work. Destroy his faith that words mean things and that the honest prevail. Destroy his faith in God. Call him a slacker, give him grunge, and tell him he's part of generation-x and that it's noble to destroy oneself with drugs.

188. The sensitive men are always the first to notice the tremors that precede a tidal wave. The wise follow them to the higher ground.

189. The family is morality's primary classroom.

190. The farther you have to sail to get where you're going, the greater the chance you have of being the first one there.

191. Slackademic professors and slackademic students are best friends. The students provide the professors with their college loans in exchange for nihilism and A's. Those who think for themselves and criticize the vapid system get the C's.

192. Resentniks don't want the Great Books to be taught because they don't want ye to harbor in yer hearts the context in which The Roger's Greatness can dock.

193. To publicly admit to believing in values is the greatest postmodern sin.

194. God is above politics, and thus the separation of church and state is ordained.

195. To encapsulate the understood esoteric in words is common, but to express the contemporary obvious which has not yet been alluded to is rare.

196. Those who flee from one form of tyranny often flee straight into another.

197. All that has not yet happened has the perpetual advantage.

198. The virtuous feminine is the anchor of the noble masculine, and if ye should cut the chain of prudence that binds them, the feminine shall sink irretrievably, while the masculine shall drift.

199. Some libertarians would say that the cutting of a chain makes both the ship and the anchor free, but I contend that the act condemns them both.

200. If we were to hold prophets accountable for the misuse and abuse of their ideas, all prophets would be eternally condemned.

201. Reason alone leads one into a void. Faith alone leads one into an abyss. Prudence is the negotiator between the two, by which one might walk the straight and narrow.

202. View success not as a destination, but as an opportunity.

203. Shakespeare violates Strunk and White in most every line.

204. Those who strive to be everything to everyone often end up being nothing to nobody.

205. Forgiveness cannot exist if not preceded by justice, and justice is meaningless without forgiveness.

206. The unifying aspect of all classics is the exaltation of the moral individual.

207. The main purpose of the NEA is to demonstrate that art which sucks can't make money on its own.

208. In a university where one can get a degree by knowing anything, one can get a degree by knowing nothing.

209. All great writers are great thinkers. Their thoughts are the keel that cuts through the uncharted territory, and immortal words are those that are left in the wake of that never-ending thought called freedom.

210. So often it is that while the issues which fill the newspapers and comprise the talk on the streets are soon forgotten, that which goes unread is destined for eternity. And so it is that the immortal spirits rule in the democracy of eternal souls.

211. A classic is not so much a book that has been passed down from generation to generation so much as it is one that will be passed down >from generation to generation.

212. The creative aspect, by which all science is born, has nothing to do with the scientific method.

213. If you should find yourself disagreeing with any of these truths, the battle is not with me-- it is with yourself.

214. Postmodernism is an inside joke for people who at one time or another found themselves laughing at things that aren't funny, believing things that aren't true, and being exalted by things that are degrading. Finally they have their revenge.

215. The Supreme Court is God's.

216. Many liberal critics say that art shouldn't make moral judgments. But they're wrong. It's liberal critics who can't make moral judgments.

217. Socrates believed in God, Einstein believed in God, and Jefferson believed in God. Socrates didn't smoke dope, Einstein didn't smoke dope, and Jefferson didn't smoke dope. Is it any wonder that liberals hate them?

218. Moses and Jesus would've gotten along.

219. Socialism by any other name would still be communism.

220. Creating is far more noble than destroying, and that's why these words shall prevail. Creation of Greatness is permanent. Destruction of Greatness is temporary.

221. Like a mirror, these words mean something different to everyone who looks this way. Thus the deeper ye are, the more profound shall be these truths.

222. One cannot deconstruct the Greats. One can only deconstruct oneself.

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