[Noumenon]

This is a slightly updated version of what I posted around 6 years ago. Still rings true today. KTF

[SaveFerris]

[as they preach ‘social justice’]

I worked for somebody like that. Church organization, too.

I wasn’t familiar with the term “Social Justice Warrior (SJW)” at that time. I’ve seen it up close and personal.

He was a hard-core partial-preterist, too. Was convinced all of that happened 2,000 years ago. So he didn’t like me mentioning that Book of Revelation stuff. Nor Ezekiel 38, either.

[ZOOKER]

... the notions and the beliefs we have concerning morality, knowledge, reality - are originated by our philosophers and academicians. Most of us simply and gradually absorb the ideas available from our culture. It is in this manner that most people get their life-shaping ideas: indirectly - from the philosophers whose ideas trickle down to popular culture, our educational institutions, the media, the arts, music and literature.

Not any more. The enemy we face has abandoned any notion of morality or civility. I look in vain for any sign of it.

Stories and vids of clashes with protesters nearly always show mob members sneaking up behind their victims, then blindsiding them with violence from behind. The only time these thugs face their victims is when they have them outnumbered and surrounded, and chances are the blow will still come from behind, unseen.
Next comes stomping and kicking your victim when he's down, while the bloodthirsty crowd taunts him and cheers for more. They even make a game of it - the "knockout game".
For this behavior the thugs get cheers and approval from their peers. In no way is it moral, or civil.
This is the world we live in now - the moral code is broken and unprincipled people will not hold back. Don't expect mercy or understanding - expect a blow on your six.

[Lurker]

Glad to see you back. And this is just as relevant today as when you first posted it.

L

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Interesting that you quoted that passage from “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America” by Leonard Peikoff. My great grandparents lived through WW I, the Weimar Republic, hyperinflation, the rise of Nazism, and WW II in Danzig. My grandparents were smart and left the country for the USA in 1927.

I’m actually reading “The Weimar Republic” by Eberhard Kolb right now to learn more about the era. “The Ominous Parallels” has great reviews and looks like a good book, too.

[Hot Tabasco]

Leon Russell / A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[PGalt]

Ominous Parallels BUMP!

[paraphrasing Tom Hayden from one of the pages]...First you have to start the revolution, to see where it goes. (sound familiar?)

[PLMerite]

“...That is, the monstrous evils of communism and National Socialism.”

National Socialism and International Socialism. Just different levels of the same pyramid scheme.

[sauropod]

I have an old tattered copy of the Ominous Parallels. Underlined and everything.

[Glad2bnuts]

Great opinion piece, I loved every word.

[Noumenon]

Let’s punch this back to the top. KTF