Posted on 01/05/2016 6:51:42 PM PST by Kaslin
In short, the bad news for us is that the Left dominates the cultural high ground. The good news is that they've gone about as far as they can go.
Well, no. They have gone as far as they can go without violence, or rather without enough violence to result in a violent backlash. They will if ever they can, but that isn't, fortunately, in the cards for a long time.
But yes, they've gone as far as they can by saturation. And within certain - by NO means all - faculties the liberal arts departments do exhibit the 11:1 dominance the author cites. There is a problem with this, because that doesn't translate very well to other departments that cling rather stubbornly to the objective truth because that's how science, mathematics, and engineering are done. You can certainly build a bridge predicated on the laws of physics being infinitely subject to perception, and steel being stronger than cardboard only someone's opinion, but at some point driving over the thing brings those flights of intellectual fancy into contact with the hard, cold water.
That would normally be the extent of the possible dominance of what is, in the end, a profoundly anti-intellectual approach to human knowledge but for one thing: violence. Did the bridge fail? Shoot the engineer - no, not the one who built it on false precepts, but the one who insists that it failed because you're wrong about the laws of physics, that they are in fact immutable. Shoot him, you can't control him.
That does tend to have a rather negative effect on the products of science and engineering, to be sure. But it is no fantasy: Ayn Rand was writing not on what she imagined, but on what she had observed, and we've been down this road before. It absolutely can go to the length of Soviet biology in Lysenko or Nazi Aryan racial theory, and those can become official state dogma, opposition to which is a death sentence first to career, and then to the person. The academy is not immune from this madness until it burns itself out in the fruits of idiocy. Sometimes the underlying society survives. Sometimes it doesn't.
Still, it isn't cause for despair, because this time the victims are armed and aware, and the resistance is mounting. The kind that counts isn't in presidential politics, but that certainly helps. The kind that counts is the kind that protects the kid who says that the emperor is naked, because if they can't silence or kill him, they lose.
I just stayed in the hard sciences; math, chemistry, and hydraulics.
Not to many snowflakes there.
Key part of OBL's master plan, to defeat both Russia and the United States in mountain warfare with the help of batshit-crazy Afghan tribesmen (Rudyard Kipling's Pathans).
First he had to get us up in the mountains, in his chosen battlefield. Watching the World Trade Center go down did the trick.
His objective, shared by the Iranian mullahs, was to delegitimize and displace the Saudis as the guardians of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. That's the Grand Prize.
Like calling for the capital punishment of climate change deniers, even while the science behind climate change crumbles and is exposed as fraud? In fact, the crumbling of the science increases the intensity of the calls for punishment.
You are on the money in noting we sometimes forget history. The soil of Russia is fertilized with the blood of those who stood in the way of the political correctness.
They are all little monsters, turning on Dr. Frankenstein.
This is the worst nightmare I can think of: Obama and Jarret cooperating with the terrorists to destabilize the US.
Yes, you are drinking too much of the paranoia potion...Obama and Jarrett have nowhere near the power you seem to think they do...
It works BOTH ways...
I think WW3 will break out this year, and we will just get the spillover.
It might begin in Europe (Tet, Take Two) or the Persian Gulf, but when she rips, she’s going to rip wide open.
And Team Obama will be happy to see the lights go out. “The worse, the better.” (Lenin) Of course, the “continuity of govt” plans ensure the bigshots will have full climate control during the blackout. And after, it will be emergency rule forever. At best.
Dear Leader can SAY anything he wants.
If it were true; we'd know about it.
I would saddle one of my horses & ride the 6 miles to vote on a paper ballot.
“Of course, the “continuity of govt†plans ensure the bigshots will have full climate control during the blackout.”
Oh, look. An air vent poking out of the ground. Let’s park a semi over it, run a hose from the exhaust and see how many rats run out.
Or don’t run out.
Even better.
Won’t matter.
Without electricity the elections will be canceled from the very top due to the emergency, and the arson riots in the cities precluding a secure voting environment.
Without electricity, we can use the utility poles and unused wire for other things.
It might begin in Europe (Tet, Take Two) or the Persian Gulf, but when she rips, she's going to rip wide open.
Mr. Shakespearte said that When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions
-- Hamlet: Act 4, Scene 5, Page 4.
Good point. Got rope?
I do, and it's recyclable/reusable. But there are field expedients, as I noted in post #35 above: *and unused wire*
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