Posted on 08/30/2009 3:51:45 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake
What do Harvard president Larry Summers, Taliban John Walker, Delta Airlines officials and the editors of the New York Times have in common with Yanomamo tribeswomen in the Amazon jungle?
To answer this question is to understand the root cause of liberal "white guilt." Lakes of ink have been splashed on newspaper, magazine and journal pages ruminating and anguishing over the bottomless guilt that pervades the liberal soul.
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Great post. Lots to think about here. Jack Wheeler is a good guy.
That IS interesting.
Obama is taking us down-—he plans to reduce the US to a primitive culture.
The concept of the US as a superpower is abhorrent to him.
There has been a systematic and purposeful effort to undermine any form of morality based on Christian beliefs.
Is it mere coincidence that this tactic coincides with communist tactics and beliefs?
I subscribe to the view that the people that advocate immoral and amoral lifestyles as acceptable and even protected behavior do so out of self loathing and guilt. They actively seek to recruit others into their lifestyles to make themselves feel better about hating themselves.
These were once classified as mental illnesses until the mentally ill forced the psychiatrists to reclassify them as “life choices”.
That's right: being an adult means accepting responsibility for one's own actions and ownership of one's own life. In a word: independence. Liberalism denies these things are necessary - or even possible - and preach dependency as a means of permanently arresting their adolescence.
I noticed the article that generated this thread is in your list of links. As far as I could tell it has never been posted on FR. Now if we could just apply one of Alinsky's tactics of using ridicule to shame the libtards it would be a real coup. Problem is, they are without shame!
The founders knew we could not have a free nation with an immoral people.
Just so. Our would-be masters know it as well.
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants”. William Penn
Nam Vet
Indeed, plowing organizing the fertile field of uncle josef's useful idiots.
O-M-G! Another one for the reading list. I'm about 5 years behind...
Oddly enough, or not, I don't recall ever seeing any of his work before.
Not saying you are wrong, just my opinion.
A human being's proper sense of self-regard comes from both the will and ability to live one's own life according to God's commandments, including respect for the rights and property of others, the responsibility to live a productive life, and a moral duty to help those upon whom one places a value.
When the State takes the form of a dictator, king, czar, or tyrannical body, it does so without the consent of the governed or as a consequence of voluntary dependency, or both. In a constitutional Republic, the individual is supreme, and the government serves all who agree to be bound by its laws.
The worth of each person in such a Republic must be assumed not only by its government but by its citizens, for they are bound by responsibilities voluntarily undertaken, without which order and civilization would fail.
Other forms of government, such as Socialist "democracies" subsume the individual to the collective, and give the State an a priori right to govern over all in exchange for protection, not merely from foreign enemies or domestic criminals, but from the necessity of providing for one's own self. In order to serve this end, one's life, labor, and property are held to be at the service and use of others, whenever the State deems it necessary for the common good, or simply because the head of state or his functionaries will it.
Under such a regime, "self-worth" is denied as a value, contrary to the nature we were created to possess.
I remember my mom, and other moms, using that in the late 1940s after the war. Eat everything on your plate, children in Europe are starving! So, mom, send this stuff to em and they won’t be hungry any longer, got me punishment more than once but also caused her to stop using it:)
Collectivism denies the very concept of value, replacing it with relativistic and fluid standards of infinitely malleable meaning, in the service of a higher "cause" or "purpose". All of which militates against the rights of the individual and in favor of whatever is seen to benefit a group (or groups) on the basis of their perceived need.
People who actually produce, create and achieve are hated, feared or envied by those who wish to evade the responsibility of doing the same. Perhaps that's why they talk so much and do so little...
Certainly true of the average working stiff. The author however points out the anomaly where either by inheritance or the ability to make gazillions playing make-believe in Hollywood, singing for your supper or any number of other pursuits requiring little effort, creates a large class of "liberals" who feel they didn't really "earn" their daily bread. They themselves are products, marketed to the masses by their industries and slick ad campaigns. Hence, the guilt trip.
Interestingly enough, it's also a way to lay on the pounds. And teaching kids to overeat leads to grown-ups who consume more than they should. While all that excessive food isn't really being taken from "starving children all over the world"; if it were, it would only lead to more starving children.
I fought the law, and the law won.
I think John Stuart Mill sang that one. ;-) Well, he ought to have. I'd like to hear Obama say it, but I'm not holding my breath...
Indeed! And in a culture that has been taught to believe that words speak louder than actions the libtards, in charge of the PC bullhorn, have a distinct advantage.
I'm thinking an unambiguous lesson in action is the only thing that will break through the damnable nonsense and put us back on the right path leading to a cure for what ails the nation.
Bobby Fuller Four. One of my favorites - back in the day...
That’s great- thanks! Wow: go-go dancers and everything. I loved playing that guitar lick as a kid and I still do today. It always sounded a great deal like a Buddy Holly song to me. ;-)
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