Posted on 05/19/2008 9:53:28 PM PDT by thinkingIsPresuppositional
Inside the Left's War on Reality
By Christopher Cook
If the fabric of reality were represented as an infinite black plain with white grid-lines (the way they depict space in black hole demonstrations), the left would be the heavy ball bearing, distorting the lines of that grid so that all nearby objects risk getting caught within its gravity well. And to carry the metaphor further, just as a black hole is theorized to have the potential to tear a hole in space if it gets heavy enough, so too the left's constant false propaganda risks the very integrity of the fabric of reality.
Read on...and really absorb not just what's in this article, but the info in the links herein.
Now, we keep hearing, again and again, that...
...the country doesn't like partisanship,
...people don't want to hear talk of "destroying" the other side,
...people want the two sides to work together.
The only reason that "the country" (for which we can read "swing voters and independents") say stuff like that is because they've been duped.
As much as I admire the general common sense of the American people, it's hard for them to get the truth. Since we have a free press, they believe that that freedom somehow protects us from the kind of control exercised over an unfree press. Unfortunately, since the press is not in the business of reporting truth, but rather of giving succor to liberal/left ideas and people, the American people are generally trusting of an information stream that is heavily polluted with agenda.
This pollution is extreme, and it causes the American people, collectively, to believe things that simply aren't true....
(Excerpt) Read more at modernconservative.com ...
Mister Anderson.
This pollution is extreme, and it causes the American people, collectively, to believe things that simply aren’t true....
AND, there is MORE....should anyone challenge the left, they are excluded as being ‘non’ existent, illegitimate...the case of the Ontario Human Rights Commission vs columnist Mark Steyn is a forefront example...here is an elegant piece on liberal, left, secularist thinking by L. Auster that deserves much attention...it expains also the exclusionary feature of Black Liberation Theology of Obamas’ church...here is the piece, demonstrating with some elegance the historically leftist institutional rejection of reality in the traditional sense of RATIONALITY...
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/010605.html
Published on The Brussels Journal (http://www.brusselsjournal.com)
All People Are Good, Except You
By The Brussels Journal
Created 2008-05-15 09:48
A quote from Lawrence Auster at his blog, 15 May 2008
The key to the [Ontario Human Rights] Commission’s thinking is in its labeling, as wrongful “Islamophobia,” the view that Islam is a threat to the West. The assumption underlying such a judgment, whether about Islamophobia or bigotry generally, is that all people are good (except for people who don’t believe that all people are good), and that no people can be a threat (except for those people who believe that some people can be a threat). Since all people (that is, all people who don’t hate nothing except hatred) are good, and since no people are enemies (except for the people who believe that there are enemies), any negative statement about a group (except for negative statements about the society’s own majority group) is by definition a false, vicious, dehumanizing attack on that group.
The core error of this liberal view is that it never considers the possibility that some people and groups (other than the majority peoples of the West) may indeed be enemies. Specifically, it never entertains the possibility that Islam is in fact a threat to the West. If Islam is a threat to the West, then saying that Islam is a threat to the West is not an act of bigotry but a statement of truth and part of a legitimate effort to protect the West from a real enemy. By condemning and punishing such defense as illegal bigotry, modern liberalism prohibits the West from defending itself.
In short, liberalism has taken group conflict, a normal feature of human history, and turned it into an immoral act, with the further twist that only the West is capable of exhibiting such immorality against other groups, while other groups are incapable of exhibiting the same immorality against the West.
How does liberalism get away with seeing only Westerners’ negative statements about Islam as wrongful, but not Muslims’ threatening statements about the West? Very simple. Under liberalism, there is no society “here” to be attacked. Under liberalism, Canada is not a substantive entity—not a nation, not a culture, not a people, not a “group.” Canada is, instead, a system for the promotion of human rights. Not being a concrete group or culture, Canada cannot be an object of bigotry. But Muslims and other immigrants, who are concrete entities, can be objects of bigotry. Muslims are a group and therefore deserve to be protected from discrimination. Canadians are not a group and therefore do not require protection from discrimination.
In short, Western peoples do not need protection under the modern liberal order because modern liberalism, in its very premises, has already defined the Western peoples out of existence. This is why it’s a waste of time looking for liberals and mainstream conservatives (who accept the premises of liberalism as much as the liberals do) to protect us. Under modern liberalism, the Western peoples have already in principle ceased to exist, and all that’s left is the mopping up operation.
The Commission, by the way, makes an interesting Freudian slip. After pointing out that Ontario’s anti-discrimination laws do not infringe on publications and books, it mentions the more sweeping anti-discrimination laws in other Canadian jurisdictions, with the obvious intent that Ontario emulate them:
Limits to freedom of expression under some other human rights legislation in Canada are broader, stating that no person shall publish, issue or display before the public any statement, publication, notice, sign, symbol or other representation.
Of course the Commission left out a phrase. It meant to say something along the lines that no person shall publish any statement, symbol, etc. “that discriminates against anyone.” By leaving out the words, “that discriminates against anyone,” the Commission makes it sound as though the law prohibits all statements, publications, and symbols, period. Meaning, the total cessation of public writing and speaking. I call this a Freudian slip because, as argued here, the prohibition of all discourse is the logical end toward which liberalism is really heading.
Source URL:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3255
No, it's because they have allowed themselves to be duped.
Your tax dollars pay for libraries. Get some books from the library and read instead of watching pointless garbage on television. You would be surprised what sort of literature you can find that the elitists positively hate...like Adam Smith, the Declaration of Independence, and anything by Friedrich Hayek, just to name some examples.
Watchout and getout of the way before its too late. (Move away from liberal enclaves that are bound to self-destruct sooner than later)
People can be convinced of a false reality because they aren’t well grounded in The Word Of God. The Truth shall make you free, and to abandon that truth leaves us open to whatever distorted reality the Left feeds us to enslave us.
We need that reference point to judge the flurry of data that comes our way daily. There needs to be a more sure rule than our current opinions.
Ohhh, paragraphs. I wish I would have seen your post before I read it at the hyperlink.
... just as a black hole is theorized to have the potential to tear a hole in space if it gets heavy enough, ....
(cringe) Christopher Cook should stay away from astrophysics.
And using incorrect *facts* to make your point kinda ruins your whole argument. Makes you look like a dufus. (doesn't anyone do just a little research any more before hitting that keyboard?)
I think it simply boils down to left-type people’s emotional problems ie they may have had unhappy early lives or feel they have under-achieved . This fills them with resentment .
Anyway, they follow only two rules :-
RULE 1
Third-world cultures are always superior to the West
RULE 2
If unsure, refer to rule 1
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