Posted on 09/10/2009 8:51:42 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
His own words:
HOLDREN: There has been a strain of what many people call “US exceptionalism” in the United States, the notion that the United States is so big, so important, so powerful, so technologically advanced that it can and should do what it wants. I think this strain is misguided.
BRIT: Will Americans need to reduce their living standards? Is that politically viable, or will technology [unintelligible] do it?
HOLDREN: I think ultimately that the rate of growth of material consumption is going to have to come down, and there’s going to have to be a degree of redistribution of how much we consume, in terms of energy and material resources, in order to leave room for people who are poor to become more prosperous.
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The entire administration is unAmerican.
I’m not surprised....
but I am pissed that so many hide their frickin heads in the sand.....
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The list, ping
OK wise a^%... what do you do when Americans figure out that it doesn't make any difference if they work or not and just decide to stay home and wait for a check? If work (and I am sure, increasingly ill paid work) is not sufficient to provide for yourself, and the gov’t. will ‘distribute’ subsidies to the ‘poor’, why work?
The game is to calmly discuss atrocity. Then if anyone gets upset about the destruction of hundreds of millions of lives, they have anger issues and can be marginalized, demonized and dismissed.
In the liberal world, this isn’t a fantasy - it’s literally reality. Liberals DO NOT allow this interpretive code to be challenged. It is reality, and those who resist it are the enemy - period.
This is why these “czars” can speak openly of intending to commit horrors. As long as the horrors are framed within the liberal interpretive code, they are - literally - transformed into benefits to liberals.
Liberal “thinking” is the very definition of insanity.
If Obama came out and said, "the truth is, I'm a leftist and I hate America and me and my friends intend to tear it down and rebuild it to suit our tastes using your capital and blood and sweat and tears" I don't think people could find the backbone to see it as a threat.
And, this is a bad thing because . . . . . . ?????
That exposes their tactics well.
Profound statement, and horrifyingly correct.
Commies are by nature bureaucrats.
They are not moored to a value system, only what they decide. They have a God complex and do not believe in God.
Talk about Schizophrenic.
And Evil.
You are very correct. Have not heard it put that way before, but could not be more accurate.
Evidence of this is all the Genocides in this century. None of the academics seem to correlate these with Totalitarianism. The correlation is 100%.
twas talisker that said it. i just recognized good sense when I saw it.
Hannah Arendt called it "The banality of Evil."
You read Hannah Arendt?
Her book “The Origins of Totalitarianism” was the most difficult book I ever waded through. The very sentence structure left me exhausted. Must have been because of the primary language issue.
She did a brilliant job on the subject. It has been a while since I read that. Heavy.
Yea, I slogged through that one. For a light read I recommend “The Gulag Archipeligo”. It’s only 800 pages or so, but well worth your time.
I want to be exeptional. I want my children to be exeptional.
“They have a God complex and do not believe in God.”
And boy are they going to be terrified when they have to face Him and see the place He has prepared for them.
Spot on! When they stand before Him, they won’t even be able to lie to themselves because being in His presence is an Honesty-Only zone.
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